Houkun Liang received a Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a Research scientist at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Principal Investigator at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. In 2019, he joined Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, as a Full Professor. Dr Liang’s current research interests include mid-infrared ultrafast lasers and nonlinear optics.