Si Hong Park is currently an associate professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, USA. He completed his Ph.D. studies in cell and molecular biology at the University of Arkansas in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he served as a post-doctoral associate at the University of Arkansas. His goal is to develop a food safety program that includes genomics, metagenomics (microbiome and whole genome sequencing), and transcriptomics based on next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics. Hi research focuses on the detection, identification, and control of foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter, and E. coli from farms to forks using various molecular techniques.