Bei-Lok Hu is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his B.A. in 1967 from the University of California-Berkeley and his Ph.D. in 1972 from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His research projects are mainly involved in Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime; Stochastic Semiclassical Gravity; Early Universe Quantum Processes; Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory. Fluctuation Phenomena; Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics, Relevance to Quantum Computing; Theoretical Aspects of Quantum and Atom Optics.