Dr. Wei Chen is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States and the Dean of the School of CHIPS at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the School of Earth Sciences at Jilin University, his master’s degree from the School of Geophysics at Central South University, and his Ph.D. from the School of Chemistry and molecular Engineering at Peking University. He previously served as the Deputy Director of the Semiconductor Materials Development Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and received the CAS Young Scientist Award. Professor Wei Chen has long been engaged in cutting-edge nanotechnology research, and has published over 355 papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as Advanced Materials, PNAS, Nano Letters, and Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. His papers have been cited 22372 times so far, with an h-index of 76, and he holds 22 US patents. He was selected for the “Annual Scientific Impact” and “Lifetime Scientific Impact” lists in the “2024 Global Top 2% Scientists” ranking. Professor Chen has received the CAS Young Scientist Award, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and has been honored with the Pencis Award for Excellence in Oncology and Cancer Research. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and in 2023, he became a Fellow of the Distinguished Scholars College at the University of Texas at Arlington, the highest honor the university bestows on faculty members. Through the efforts of Professor Chen and his team, the School of CHIPS has signed agreements with over a 30 companies and research institutes in the semiconductor field, jointly engaging in close cooperation in talent development, technological research and development, and other areas.