Prof. Yong Jiang is a full Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University. He is a member of the American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, and TMS. He graduated from Central South University with a Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering in 1995 and a Master's in Materials Processing Mechanics in 1998, and obtained a Master's in Solid-State Electronics in 2004 and a Doctorate in Computational Materials in 2005 at Arizona State University, USA. From 2000 to 2005, he studied and worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant in the Department of Ceramics and Materials Engineering at Clemson University, and the Solid State Science Center, the Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University. From April 2005 to December 2006, he worked as a research fellow at Delphi Research Labs in Michigan. From January 2007 to August 2009, worked as a a post-doctoral scholar at the Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara. From September 2009, worked as an associate research specialist at the Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara. In November 2010, he was appointed as a distinguished professor at Central South University, China. His research interests are material design, fabrication, characterization, and service performance, interface structure and properties, and first-principles calculations.