Yi Wu is a professor in the Department of Synthetic Biology at Tianjin University. He received his bachelor's degree in Biotechnology at the Dalian University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering at the Tianjin University. His research interests are Synthetic biology and Synthetic Genomics. He led the effort to synthesize yeast chromosome 10 in the international Sc2.0 project. He developed a highly efficient mapping strategy called Pooled PCRTag Mapping (PoPM), generalizable to any watermarked synthetic chromosome, to correct unexpected bugs arising during genome synthesis. He also developed new technologies and strategies of SCRaMbLE (Synthetic Chromosome Rearrangement and Modification by LoxP-Mediated Evolution) to explore the fundamental and industrial application of this system.