Professor Chao Tang received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1981, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1986. He worked at Brookhaven National Lab and Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB as a postdoctoral fellow, and at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, as a Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist. In 2005, he joined the University of California, San Francisco as a full professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He came back to China in 2011 as a Chair Professor in School of Physics and Dean of Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Peking University. He served in numerous national and international advisory committees,

Dr. Lei-Han Tang started his academic journey in physics at the University of Science and Technology in the spring of 1978 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1981. That same year, he continued his study at the Carnegie Mellon University through the CUSPEA Program organized by T.D. Lee and obtained his PhD in statistical physics in 1987. He did postdoctoral work on phase transitions of quasicrystals and disordered/driven systems at various US and German institutions including UCSB, Texas A&M University, the IFF at KFA Jülich, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne. From 1996-1997, he was a lecturer at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London. Dr. Tang joined the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1997 as an associate professor, ascending to the rank of full professor in 2005. He led the university’s Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies from 2020 to 2024.