Dr. Xuewen Gao is currently the Vice President of the College of Plant Protection at Nanjing Agricultural University, Executive Director of the Jiangsu Plant Pathology Society, and a member of the Plant Disease Biological Control Professional Committee of the 8th Council of the Chinese Plant Pathology Society. He obtained his Bachelor's degree from the Plant Protection Department of the Northeast Agricultural University in 1988. From July 1988 to October 1992, he conducted research on soybean gray spot disease at the Hejiang Agricultural Science Institute under the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From October 1992 to August 1996, he pursued his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Kharkiv National Agricultural University in Ukraine. Between October 1996 and December 1998, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanjing Agricultural University. Since 1998, Dr. Gao has been affiliated with the College of Plant Protection at Nanjing Agricultural University. His research focuses on biological control of plant diseases and molecular plant pathology.