Yudong Hou is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Education Ministry of China, Beijing university of Technology (BJUT). He received his PhD in Materials Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2002. He has led a group working on ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramics, dielectric materials, and ferroelectric polymers for sensor, transducer and energy storage/harvesting applications. He has published more than 150 SCI papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and 2 books, and held 24 patents in his research area.