Prof. Lizhi Sun received his B.Sc. (1987) in Engineering Mechanics from Zhejiang University and his M.Sc. (1990) in Solid Mechanics from Peking University. In 1997, he got another M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in structural mechanics from the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA). He is now a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Irvine (UCI). His main area of research interest is the micromechanics of heterogeneous composite materials, with applications for civil, mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering. He is an Editor of the International Journal of Damage Mechanics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics and the International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. He is a Fellow of AAAS and ASCE-EMI. He won academic and research awards such as Fellow of AAAS (2017), Fellow of ASCE’s Engineering Mechanics Institute (2014), UCI Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of the Year (2013), AFRL Faculty Fellow (2011), UCI School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award (2008), and Honda Research Initiation Award (2006).