Kai Liu is Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at the Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California – San Diego. He joined the University of California – Davis faculty in 2001, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and Professor in 2008. He transitioned to the Georgetown University during 2018-19. Prof. Liu was recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005) and a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellowship (2007). He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK, 2011), American Physical Society (2012), IEEE (2016), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019), and the National Academy of Inventors (2022). He served as the Program Co-Chair for the 2007 Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in Tampa (2007 MMM) and the 2011 International Magnetics Conference in Taipei (2011 Intermag), as the General Chair for the 2016 MMM in New Orleans, and as an Associate Editor for APL Materials (2018-19). He is currently Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Magnetism.