Dr. Yuanming Zhang is a professor at the College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. He received his PhD on mixed major genes plus polygenes inheritance from Nanjing Agricultural University. Dr. Zhang did his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside, where he developed his interest in GWAS and QTL Mapping. He worked at Nanjing Agricultural University from 1999 and moved to Huazhong Agricultural University in 2014, where he established the Statistical Genomics Laboratories. He concurrently holds the Associate Editorial positions of BMC Genetics, Canadian Journal of Plant Science (SCI), Acta Agraonomica Sinica, Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics, and Journal of Genetics Study. Furthermore, his current research interests include QTL mapping and GWAS for crop quantitative traits, crop comparative genomics, genetic mating design and heterosis prediction, and linkage group construction of distorted markers.