Dr. Tan is now a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, and Executive Director of the Tsinghua University - University of Waterloo Joint Research Center for Micro/Nano Energy & Environmental Technologies. Dr. Tan received his BSc and MSc degrees in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2004. He started his career as a faculty member at the University of Calgary (2004-2010) and moved to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo in September 2010.