Kangkang Chen is currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Georgia. He received his B.Sc. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Entomology from Northwestern Agricultural University in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He served as a lecturer at Yangzhou University from November 2017 to December 2019. His research interests include Crosstalk between reactive oxygen species and antimicrobial peptide signaling pathways in insects and the effects of insulin pathways and protein-sugar meals on mosquito reproduction.