Prof Long Yu is currently Chief Scientist and former Director of China-Singapore International Joint Research Institute, and a Professor in South China University and Technology. He received his BE from South China University and Technology, and his PhD from Monash University. He studied and worked in Australia from 1988–2014. Prof L. Yu joined South China University of Technology as Team Leader of the Guangdong Innovative & Entrepreneurial Research Team Program in 2015. He used to work in CSIRO, Australia, as Principal Scientist for 18 years. Prof Yu has had more than 160 SCI papers published, and has been cited more than 11,000 times (h-index 57). He was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2002, and is currently appointed to the Editorial Board of eight SCI journals. In the last 20 years, Prof Yu has been working on various polymeric materials from renewable resources. He has successfully developed and commercialized eight products through spinning-off manuscript companies, or transforming developed techniques to industries, including various starch-based materials and products, such as pure starch-based plastics, medicine capsules, and loss field foam.