Huijuan Zhang is a professor at the School of Food and Health, Beijing Technology and Business University.  She received a master's degree and Ph.D. from Jiangnan University, China, and studied as a joint training doctoral student at the University of California, Davis, and the USDA Western Research Institute from 2009 to 2011. She joined Beijing Technology and Business University as a lecturer in 2012 and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. Her research focuses on functional grain ingredients, etc.