On Dec. 15, Siyun Wang from the University of British Columbia Visited Jiangsu University. Siyun Wang delivered an academic lecture named Application of big data in food safety research. Prof. Ma Haile, Party Secretary of School of Food and Biological Engineering, some faculty members and students of the school attended the lecture.

Siyun received her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Fudan University (2005) and Ph.D. degree in Biology from the Institute for Food Safety and Health at Illinois Institute of Technology (2010). She was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, Dr. Siyun Wang joined University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor of Food Safety Engineering at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, where she conducts research on microbial safety in the Ulrich Freybe Food Safety Laboratory.Dr. Wang has published over 20 high quality papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She received various awards, such as young scientist award for American Society of Microbiology, Fundamental science research award for National Science Foundation, Distinguish research award for European Food Safety Authority. She is the editorial board member of Current Opinion in Food Science and the provincial replicative of British Columbia for International Association for Food Protection.

(School of Food and Biological Engineering)