Shengfa F. Liao received a Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition from the University of Alberta. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Iowa State University and the University of Kentucky. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at Mississippi State University. He is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Society for Nutrition, Gamma Sigma Delta, and the Mississippi Pork Producers Association. His research interests focus on nutrient regulation of animal health and growth and development, diet and feed evaluation for swine production, molecular biotechnology for animal nutrition, and swine models for human nutrition and health