Jie-Yun Zhuang has worked at the China National Rice Research Institute since 1984 and is currently a researcher at the China National Rice Research Institute. He obtained a B.S. from Xiamen University in 1984. He completed an M.S. at Cambridge University in 1989. He received a Ph.D. at Zhejiang University in 2001. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the deputy secretary-general and executive director of the Zhejiang Genetics Society. He has won one second prize in the National Technological Invention Award and ten second or third prizes in provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards.