Kevin Jiang is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Foreign Languages at Beihang University, China. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Ken Hyland. His research and teaching focus on disciplinary discourse, academic writing, and corpus-based analysis. He has published five books and over 100 research articles on the above topics in most major SSCI- and CSSCI-indexed journals in applied linguistics. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, and Teaching in Higher Education, and is recognised as a Highly Cited Scholar by Elsevier, Stanford, and CNKI rankings.