**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Xiaonan Lu** (Associate Professor) received his B.Sc. (Food Science) from Ocean University of China in 2007 and Ph.D. (Food Science) from Washington State University in 2011. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University before he joined in UBC in January 2013, as the director of the UBC Food Safety Engineering Laboratory. He is the recipient of UBC Peter Wall Scholar (2017), the recipient of Young Scientist Excellence Award from International Union of Food Science and Technology (2015), the recipient of Young Scientist Travel Award from Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (2014), and currently the editorial board member of *Applied and Environmental Microbiology*, *Journal of Food Science*, *Food and Agricultural Immunology*, etc. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers as well as one book (Sensing Techniques for Food Safety and Quality Control, Royal Society of Chemistry) and several book chapters.

**Yaxi Hu** (Postdoctoral Fellow) received her B.Sc. in Biological Science from China Agricultural University (2013) and completed her Ph.D. in Food Science (2018) at The University of British Columbia. Caring about the food system's integrity, during her graduate studies, Dr. Hu focused on the development and fabrication of novel sensor- and instrument-based analytical techniques to detect food safety, food quality and food fraud related issues. The cutting edge technologies involved in her studies cover a broad range of techniques including paper- and polymer-based microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" devices, nanomaterials, molecularly imprinted polymers, immunological assays, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and etc. Using these tools, Dr. Hu has published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, with two additional manuscripts submitted, and three more manuscripts under preparation. Dr. Hu's research has been recognized by the Mitacs Outstanding Innovation-Ph.D. 2016, won her the first place in the Withycombe-Charalambous Graduate Student Symposium (2018, American Chemical Society—Agricultural and Food Division), and featured in many media, such as CBC, CTV, Global News, and others.
