Prof. Dr. Hui Bai is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Millet Crops, Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Shijiazhuang, China. She received her master's degree from Hebei Agricultural University in 2006 and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, she worked as a post doctor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research field focuses on mining, cloning and the functional study of high-performance gene traits in millet, such as those involved in disease resistance.