Peng Xu, professor of Chemical Engineering at Guangdong-Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Xu obtained his BS/MS from Jiangnan University, and PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, completed his postdoc training at MIT, was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Maryland. He served on the editorial board for the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering and is the associate editor for Process Biochemistry and New Biotechnology. His lab was funded by the NSF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), NSFC and the Li Ka-shing Foundation et al. He has received the Biotechnology & Bioengineering Daniel IC Wang Award and the Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award. His research covers metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, intelligent control, green manufacturing and biochemical engineering et al. 

Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vqLnxtEAAAAJ&hl=en 

Xu Peng Research Group: The Synthetic Biology and Intelligent Control Lab