Prof Zhiyong Fan is currently Associate Professor at Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. Prof Fan received B. S. degree and M. S. degrees from Physics Electronics major, Fudan University in year of 1998 and 2001 respectively, followed by a Ph.D. degree on Materials Science at University of California, Irvine in 2006. Prof. Fan’s research focuses on development of nanostructured functional materials for solar energy harvesting, particularly on three-dimensional solar cells and solar water splitting devices. He is also working on energy storage devices with nanostructured materials. Prof. Fan has published over 80 referred journal papers, including these on Nature Materials, Energy and Environmental Science, Nano Letters, Nano Energy, Advanced Materials, Proceedings of The National Academy of Science, USA, etc. These papers have received over 4,000 citations with an H-index (Web of Science) of 29. In addition, Prof. Fan has 5 US patents on solar cell related technologies. Prof. Fan has won a number of awards, including 2013 1st place prize in HKUST One Million Dollars Entrepreneurship Competition with a novel flexible solar cell technology, Outstanding Paper Award, 1st International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials, Korea, 2011, Outstanding Research Presentation Award, “Nanopillar Based Solar Cell”, Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California, Berkeley, 2009. He is currently a member of MRS, IEEE, OSA, ECS, Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS). Prof. Fan has delivered 16 invited talks on international conferences and 33 invited seminar talks in reputable universities/institutes around the world. Contributed 26 oral presentations in a variety of international conferences and workshops in total. Prof. Fan is serving as peer reviewer for a number of renowned journals including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Sicence, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, etc. He is also serving as an assistant editor for Nanoscale Research Letters.