Dr. Yang Jiao is currently a Professor and Program Chair of Materials Science and Engineering and an affiliated Professor of Dept. of Physics at Arizona State University. He obtained his B.S. from Peking University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. The main focus of Dr. Jiao’s research is to understand the fundamental physics of “disorder” in a wide range of complex material systems, using analytical and computational techniques devised in statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, statistical field theory, and discrete geometry. Dr. Jiao has published more than 140 research papers in top-tier scientific journals including Nature, Nat. Comm., Science Advances, PNAS, JACS, Angew. Chem., PRL, Adsv. Fun. Mater., Acta Mater., etc, which have been cited about 9000 times with an h-index of 54. Dr. Jiao received many awards, including the Martin Summerfield Fellowship, Ray Grimm Prize in Computational Physics, DARPA Young Faculty Award, ACS New Investigator Award, Fulton Top 5% Faculty Award, and Professor of Impact Award, the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, etc. He is a Fellow of IAAM and an associate editor for Frontiers of Physics and serves on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, Materials Today, and AIMS Materials Sciences.