Dr. Xin-An Zeng is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology. He is also the Vice President and Professor of Foshan University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD in Food Engineering and Sugar Engineering at the South China University of Technology. He has been awarded two China Patent Excellence Awards, five First Prizes of Provincial Science and Technology, two Guangdong Provincial Patent Gold Medals, one Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement First Prize, and one Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Second Prize. He is engaged in research on agricultural product processing, non-thermal food processing, food nutrition and health, etc., and has developed distinctive features in pulsed electric field non-thermal extraction and active protection technology of food components. He has presided over numerous national and provincial key R&D projects. He has applied for 5 international patents (PCT), 3 being authorized, and applied for more than 80 domestic invention patents, more than 50 being authorized. He is the associate editor of "J Food Process Preserv", an editorial board member of "Int J Food Sci Tech" and other journals, and has published more than 260 SCI papers, with more than 8,500 citations and a 53 h-index.