Professor Xihong Zhao was selected for the Hubei Province “Connected Talent Program”. He joined Wuhan Engineering University in July 2010 and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Gangwon University in South Korea and Taiwan University from 2011 to 2014. In 2014, he was appointed as a distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Engineering and selected for relevant talent projects in Hubei Province. He has achieved a series of research results in the formation mechanism and rapid detection technology of foodborne pathogenic bacteria VBNC and biofilm. He has been the first author or corresponding author of over 20 SCI international journals and has been selected for three ESI high citation papers.