Professor D.D.L. Chung of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the late Professor M.S. Dresselhaus, and her B.S. degree from Caltech. She is ranked by the 2022 Stanford University study to be 13th among 315,721 materials scientists in the world (living and deceased), and 1st among those that are female. She is a pioneer and international leader in the field of multifunctional structural materials (best known for the invention of smart concrete) and has authored or coauthored over 600 archival journal papers and 10 books. Her Google Scholar h-index is 109, with 43,153 citations (as viewed on April 5, 2023). Chung is Fellow of ASM International and American Carbon Society. She received the Pettinos Award (an international research award) from the American Carbon Society and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from University of Alicante, Spain.