2023-Now, Visiting scholar, affiliated to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States 2023-Now, Senior Scientist and lead in Synthetic Biology and Trait Creation Team Traitology -The Soybean Digital Biology Company (https://www.traitology.ag/). 2017-2022, Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PI: Dr. Alan Jones Characterized A G-Protein Coupled TCP14-JAZ3 Circuit Mediates Broad Disease Resistance by Repressing JA Signaling. Identified A Novel Apoplastic Sugar Complex Sucrose Synthase and RGS1 in plant growth and defense. 2014-2016, Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Microbiology and Cell Science (MCS), University of Florida, PI: Dr. Bryan Kolaczkowski Studied the molecular functional evolution of RNA interference pathways in animals and in plants through combination of phylogenetic analyses, modeling of protein structures, CRISPR gene editing and RNA sequencing analysis. 2008-2013, Ph.D. research Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program (PMCB), University of Florida. PI: Dr. Donald McCarty Demonstrated the distinct functions of the LAFL(LEC1/ABI3/FUS3/LEC2) and VAL B3-domain transcription factors and their B3 domains in regulating seed development and seed germination.