Dr. Junjie Han received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in August 2022. He was mentored by Dr. Juan Stiebel as he completed his dual degree in Animal Science and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Junjie’s dissertation research focused on the development and assessment of predictive models for improved swine farming in the realms of both precision livestock farming and genomic prediction. During his Ph.D., Junjie worked as a research assistant, mentored two undergraduate researchers, and served as a teaching assistant and as a statistical consultant. During the Ph.D. program, he was awarded the Food Systems Fellowship from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resource and received an Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Student Award from the Department of Animal Science, and was recognized as Outstanding Young Leader by Farm Journal's PORK Magazine. Junjie recently joined Bayer as a quantitative genomics scientist.