Chengyan Yue is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She got a Ph.D. of economics at Iowa State University in 2006. Her areas of interest are behavioral economics, consumer economics, and trade. She published over 100 papers on agricultural economics, food policy, food control, and so on. She received many honors and awards, including the McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota between 2011 and 2013, American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) in 2007, and American Academy of Political and Social Science Graduate Fellow in 2006.