Prof. Dr. Xin Gen Lei received a Bachelor of Science from Hunan Agricultural University in 1982, a Master of Science from Sichuan Agricultural University in 1985, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1993. He is a Professor of Molecular Nutrition, Animal Science Nutritional Sciences and Associate Dean of the Office of Research and Innovation at Cornell University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nutrition, the American Society for Nutrition, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nutrition, a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Animal Biosciences, and the president of the North American Chinese Nutrition Society. Currently, he is the Associate Director of the HarvestPlus-China Program, a faculty member of the Cornell Institute for Food Systems (CIFS), a faculty member of the Cornell Institute for Energy, a faculty member of the Cornell East Asia Program, and a faculty member of the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics. His research interests include agricultural development, crop and livestock improvement, energy, energy transitions, human health, nitrogen pollution, one health, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture and food systems.