Fei Gao is a Professor at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China. He received his M.Sc. from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. His research interests include resource plant molecular biology, plant stress tolerance mechanisms, and functional research on plant non-coding RNAs.