Dr. Yao-Wei Huang, Ph.D., has a position as a professor and is currently working at the College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, and Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He holds a bachelor of science degree from the Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Nanjing University, a master’s degree in preventive veterinary medicine at the College of Animal Science, Zhejiang University (later transferred to a combined master’s and doctoral program), and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research directions are porcine enteric coronaviruses (PEDV, PDCoV, SeACoV/SADS-CoV); hepatitis E virus (HEV); other important swine pathogenic viruses and new emerging viruses; and human use and new veterinary vaccines. He is an editorial board member of SCI journals "Virology", "Virus Research", "Veterinary Microbiology", and “Acta Chinese Veterinary Science”. To date, he has published more than 110 papers included in "SCI", with a total of more than 3500 citations (according to the ISI database), and an H-index of 35; including more than 50 papers by the first author or corresponding author (including co-corresponding author).