Dr. Yong Tang got his BSc at Sichuan Normal University in 1986 and received his Ph. D degree in 1996 at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Having spent nearly three years as a postdoctoral researcher in USA, he joined SIOC as an associate Professor in 1999. He was promoted to a full Professor in 2000. His research interests are on the development of new synthetic methodology and new olefin polymerization catalysts, including ylide chemistry in organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, and specifically designed organometallic complexes that can engineer macromolecules. Since 2000, he has published over 126 papers and 7 book chapters, and applied over 20 patents as a co-inventor. He was awarded The CAS-Bayer Award (2002), Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2004), The Second Class Award of National Natural Sciences in China (2012), and Yao-Zheng Huang Award on Organometallic Chemistry (2012), Chinese Chemical Society. He was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015