Dr. Wu Wanying is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She took postgraduate training at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and received a Ph.D. in 2002. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, she joined the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and was later promoted to associate professor and professor. Dr. Wu joined the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) as a visiting Scientist in 2013 and took part in the establishment of the Herbal Medicine Compendium. Dr. Wu’s current research interests are mainly in systematic analysis of the TCM complex system. She has conducted eleven projects as a PI and participated in more than 20 projects as a co-investigator, including those from the National S&T Major Special Project, The Ministry of Science and Technology International Cooperation, and the National Natural Science Foundation. She has published 114 papers in renowned international and national journals including J Chromatogr A., Anal Chim Acta., Anal Bioanal Chem., etc, and she is the editor of six academic monographs.