Prof. Samuel Sai-Ming Sun
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Professor Sun is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. Professor Sun's research interests encompass a number of areas such as plant gene isolation, characterization, transfer, expression, and regulation; plant bioreactors; as well as rice quality improvement and functional genomics. Professor Sun is credited as the scientist who first cloned a plant gene, discovered plant gene intervening sequences, and enhanced an essential amino acid in plant through biotechnological approach.