Dr. Weishu Liu is currently a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He got his Ph.D from University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) at Jan. 2009. From 2009 to 2012 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Washington and Boston College. Later, he joined in the Texas Center of Superconductor at University of Houston (TcSUH) as a senior associate researcher II. And then, he moved a company, Sheetak Inc., as a principal materials scientist. Dr. Liu’s research interesting is thermoelectric materials and devices. He has published 80 journal papers, with a total citation of >6000 times and an H-index 38. He has applied 30 patents, with licenses inclusing 25 Chinese patents, 1 world patent, 3 USA patents and 1 Japan patent. He wrote 4 book chapter in the topic of thermoelectric materials and devices. He is an PI of the NSFC project, one Co-PI of the Key Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and PI of three other projects of other ministries and enterprises, and won the 2012 Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award. and also the Tencent Explorer at 2019.