Dr. Qing Peng is an Associate Professor and K.A.CARE Fellow in the Physics Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudia Arabia. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Connecticut. He currently works with computational materials and physics, including strain engineering, radiation damage, multiscale modeling, shock physics, nanomechanics, ion batteries, thermoelectrics, and perovskite solar cells. He is the main developer of the Quasi-Continuum Density Functional Theory (QCDFT), “DFT+q” method, the QM-MD-SPH method, and a few others.