Xueyu Song is a professor of chemistry, who received his B.S. in 1984 and M.S. in 1987 from Nankai University, China. He then attended the California Institute of Technology in 1991 and received his Ph.D. in 1995. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University in the fall of 1998.