Tao AN is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently Deputy Director of the Radio Astronomy Science and Technology Department at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), and undertakes research projects under the National Key Research and Development Programme. He serves as a member of the Radio Astronomy Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Chinese representative in the SKA Regional Centre Steering Committee, and a member of the Time Allocation Committee of the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network. He has published more than 150 papers with H-index 29 in top academic journals, including Nature (including Nature Astronomy and Nature Communications) and Science, and has served as a reviewer for top astronomical journals.