Yang Shigui, MD, PhD, is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Epidemiology and Health statistics, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University. He has been selected as the leading talent of young and middle-aged science and technology innovation in the Ministry of Science and Technology (Ten-thousand Talents Program). His research focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases and public health modelling. He has presided over ten national projects and sub-projects of major projects. He has participated in constructing a massive information cloud platform containing 45 million personal electronic health and infection screening records, covering major infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and HIV infection. He has published 40 articles as a first or co-first/co-corresponding author in distinguished journals, including Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, and CID. He obtained the National Science and Technology Progress Award Special Award (Rank 15), the first prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (Rank 6), and the first prize of the China Medical Science and Technology Award by the Chinese Medical Association (Rank 5). He is a Vice Chairman of the Health Statistics Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Preventive Medical Association.