Chunfa Tong obtained his PhD in Forest Genetics and Breeding at Nanjing Forestry University in 2003 and is now Professor of Forest Genetics and Genomics at the same university. From 2009 to 2011, he was a collaborative researcher in the Center for Statistical Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University. His research interest is in the methodological and algorithmic development of genetic linkage analysis, quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping and genome-wide association study (GWAS) in forest trees.