Professor of the College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Director of the Department of Smart Agriculture, and reward of overseas high-level talents and ChuTian Scholar in Hubei Province, winner of Merit youth scholar fund of NSFC. His research topic is focused on biological big data and systems biology. Using biological big data and artificial intelligence technology, he is dedicated in dissection of molecular mechanism underlying maize plant architecture and molecular mechanism of the trade-off of silage maize biomass and quality variation, which provide fundamental knowledge and germplasm resources for high-yield and high-quality silage maize breeding. He has published more than 46 research papers in international prestigious journals.