Hyunjun Choi is an animal science doctoral candidate at North Carolina State University. He was born and raised in South Korea, and received his B.S. and M.S. at Konkuk University. His Ph.D. research is aimed at the investigation of dietary interventions; acidifiers, medium chain fatty acids, and anti-nutritional compounds degrading enzymes, that could alter mucosal microbiota for the benefit of intestinal health with reduced pathogenic attachments and inflammation to enhance nursery pig growth performance. To date Mr. Choi has published 11 journal articles, with 8 articles as the first author, has co-authored a book chapter and presented numerous poster and oral presentations at Midwest and National American Society of Animal Science. He was President of the NCSU Korean Student Association (2022-2023), received the Pinnacle Award (2023) from the International Ingredient Company which is awarded to outstanding graduate students in the US and was selected by the NC Pork Council for their Communicators Graduate Fellowship (2022).