Professor Xiong received his B.A. in Chemistry from Nanchang University. After moving to Shanghai, he completed his Ph.D. at Fudan university with Prof. Fen-Er Chen. In 2012, he started his independent research career at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. His current research interests mainly include organocatalysis, the total synthesis of natural products and medicinal chemistry, which involved the discovery of novel anti-viral (HIV, HBV, Coronavirus, etc.), anticancer and anti-bacterial agents based on rational drug design and combinatorial chemistry approaches. Dr. Xiong's honors and awards include a First Prize for Invention and Innovation awarded by the Shanghai Association of Invention and Innovation in 2010, a Second Prize for the Teaching Display of Ideological and Political Education in Curriculum by the Shanghai Municiple Education Commission in 2025, and since 2025 has served on the Youth Editorial Board of the journal of Letters in Drug Design & Discovery and the Editorial Board of the journal of Natural Product Communications, Advances in Drug Design and Discovery, Organic Chemistry and Synthesis.