Dr. Ji Youn Hong has previously served as a Policy Researcher at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). Her research areas mainly include food regulatory science, the global harmonization of food standards, and the application of FAIR data principles to national food composition databases. Recently, she has been leading the standardization and utilization of the Korea Food and Nutrient Database (KFNDB) commissioned by the MFDS, managing a large-scale repository of over 270,000 records across 598 nutrient types. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Biotechnology at Korea University, where she integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning into food science education and predictive nutrient modeling. She also serves as a member of the Health Functional Food Advisory Committee for the MFDS and as Vice President of the Precision Nutrition Association, focusing on cohort-based systems that link real-time metabolic monitoring data, such as Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), with dietary survey and biomarker profiling.