Yong He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in agricultural engineering from Zhejiang Agricultural University, Hangzhou, China in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. in biosystems engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou in 1998, where he is currently a Professor. He is currently the Dean of the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy, Ministry of Agriculture, a national prestigious teacher, and one of the hundreds of thousands of national talents. He was selected as the Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Researchers (2016- 2018). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Computers and Electronics in Agriculture journal and an editorial board member of the Food and Bioprocess Technology journal.