Jianyong Wu is Associate Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. Dr. Jian-Yong Wu completed his PhD and postdoctoral studies on Biochemical Engineering in 1994 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is now an Associate Professor of Food and Bioprocess Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in reputed scientific journals, received over 3700 citations and an H-index 39 (Scopus). He has been serving as an editorial board member of Biotechnology Applied Biochemistry. His current areas of research interest include: Biochemical engineering and food processing technology; Properties and functions of natural polysaccharides from medicinal fungi and plants; Prebiotics and gut microbiota; Ultrasound-assisted processes for food and medicinal products.