Dr. Changwei Shao is an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Mariculture Biobreeding and Sustainable Goods, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. He received his MSc in marine biology from the Ocean University of China in 2007, and then he worked on fish genomic analysis at Texas A&M University as a visiting scholar in 2008. He received his PhD in marine biology at the Ocean University of China (2012). From 2012 to 2015, he worked at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology as a JSPS fellow for three months per year and received another PhD in marine science. His research focused on fish genome sequences, genome resource development, molecular breeding, and fundamental issues in fish evolutionary biology.