Prof. Sheng Qiang is a Full Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University. He has undertaken more than 60 research projects from domestic (national, provincial, and ministry level) and international funding sources. He has published more than 400 papers (100 in the SCI journal) and 15 scientific books and textbooks. He has 30 authorized patents (including three in Japan, Europe, and USA) and a dozen applications pending. He has supervised 104 graduate students for 30 PhDs and 74 Masters degrees, and is currently supervising 18. He has received a dozen awards for outstanding education and scientific research at the national, ministry, and provincial level (2000–2019), such as the National High-level Talents Special Support Plan (2014), National Distinguished Teacher Award for Higher Education awarded by the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China (2011), and National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker awarded by the China Association for Science and Technology (2010). His main research interests include invasive plants, weed biology and ecology, bioherbicide, weed management, and epigenetics in weed evolution.