Guangping Zheng received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2004. He is currently a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Zheng's research is in the areas of computational materials science, nanomechanics, and applications of nanomaterials in energy conversion and storage. In his capacity as principal investigator, he has secured 13 research grants from government agencies, including 6 RGC GRF, 4 ITF/GTF, and 3 Guangdong municipal research funds. Dr. Zheng has published over 230 papers in refereed scientific journals. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals in his research fields.