Dr. Shi received her B.S. on Food Science and M.S. on Microbiology at Huazhong Agricultural University in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and her Ph.D. on Biomedical Engineering (Biotechnology) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. Since then, she has worked as a lecturer in Department of Food Sci & Tech, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. And she was offered a position of Associate professor in Food Science in 2009. She has been a visiting postdoc at Martin Wiedmann’s lab of Department of Food Science, Cornell University from Jan, 2011 to Jan, 2012, working on the molecular methods for serovar determination of Salmonella. Her research interests focus on the prevalence, persistence and stress survival of foodborne pathogenic bacteria on food chain from farm to table. She has presided over ten research projects, including a NSFC Young Scientists Fund, a NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund, a Project in the National Sci & Tech Pillar Program during the Twelfth Five-year Plan Period and several projects from Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. She has published 49 papers (23 papers were SCI included), and participated in compiling 3 books. She has also taken part in applying 20 patents and eight patents have been issued. She received the First Prize of “Excellent Young Teacher Reserved Talent” of SJTU in 2009 and the Second Prize of Inspection by Science and Technology of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China in 2012.