Yaokang Wu is currently an Associate Professor at the Science Center for Future Foods, Jiangnan University. He earned his PhD in Fermentation Engineering from the School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University in 2021, and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Science Center for Future Foods for the following two years, supported by the China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents. His research focuses on applied basic research in food synthetic biology, encompassing the design and development of metabolic reprogramming tools and their application in microbial strain construction. In recent years, he has published more than 40 academic papers, among which he has authored numerous first-author articles in prestigious bioscience journals such as Nature Chemical Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Metabolic Engineering, and ACS Synthetic Biology. He has been awarded honors including the Youth Progress Award of the 6th Min Enze Energy and Chemical Industry Award, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province, and the National Outstanding Postdoctoral in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He also serves as an Associate Editor of Food Bioscience and a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Biotechnology.