Yeau-Ren Jeng is Endowed Chair Professor of National Cheng Kung University, Founding Director of the Advanced Institute for Manufacturing with High-tech Innovations (AIM-HI) and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He is a renowned scholar in the areas of tribology, nano-mechanics, and characterization of mechanical properties at the nano-scale. Also, he holds over 20 patents and has received numerous awards including the McCuen Special Achievement Award from General Motors, the Innovative Research Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Tribologists & Lubrication Engineers Walter Hodson Best Paper Award and Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Medal, the Research Invention Award from the President of Taiwan, and the Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology.