Pengcheng Li (李鹏程), Ph.D., is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University. He received his B.Sc. in Agronomy from Shandong Agricultural University (2009) and his Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition from China Agricultural University (2015), joined Yangzhou University in 2015, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Bonn, Germany (2019–2020). His research concerns maize functional genomics and the genetic basis of nutrient-use efficiency, integrating multi-omics with quantitative genetics to dissect the networks underlying root system architecture and nitrogen efficiency.