Dr. Junliang Zhao received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from South China Agricultural University in 2007. He is a researcher and a special expert at the Rice Research Institute of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2017, he went to the University of Western Australia as a visiting scholar and engaged in crop bioinformatics research. He is currently engaged in functional genomics and bioinformatics of rice.