Ping Sheng is the William Mong Professor of Nanoscience and Chair Professor of Physics at HKUST. He obtained his BSc in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1971. After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study, Ping joined RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in 1973. In 1979 he joined the Exxon Corporate Research Lab, where he served as the head of the theory group during 1982-86. In 1994 Ping joined the HKUST as a professor of physics and served as the head of the physics department from 1999 to 2008. Prof. Sheng is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded Technology Leader of the Year by the Sing Tao Group in 2002, the Brillouin Medal by the International Phononics Society in 2013, the National Natural Science Award (second class) by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in 2014, and the Rolf Landauer Medal by the ETOPIM Society in 2018. Prof. Sheng has published over 480 papers with a total of over 41,000 citations, with an h-index of 93 (Google Scholar). He presented over 330 keynote, plenary or invited talks at international meetings and conferences. His current research interests include acoustic metamaterials, superconductivity in carbon nanostructures, antidot graphene, giant electrorheological fluids, fluid-solid interfacial phenomena, and effective medium theory of composites.