Tao Lei has been an associate professor at the Department of Agricultural and Hydraulic Engineering since 2020 and is mainly engaged in efficient utilization of agricultural water and fertilizer resources. He has been appointed as a joint postdoctoral fellow of Nanfeng Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd and Taiyuan University of Technology since 2019. He received his PhD in 2018 and received his BS in 2012 from Taiyuan University of Technology.