Dr. Qiaoqiang Gan is a Professor in MSE program (PSE) who joined KAUST in late 2021. He received his PhD degree from Lehigh University in 2010. He is the recipient of Exceptional Young Investigator of University at Buffalo (2016), the Senior Researcher of the Year 2017 of School of Engineering and Applied Science, and SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities 2019. He is the founder of Sunny Clean Water LLC (2017), a high-tech start-up company working on solar water purification technologies. His research publications include over 100 technical papers and 4 patents. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE JSTQE, associate editor J. of Photonics for Energy (SPIE) and PhotoniX (Springer), the sub-committee chair of CLEO 2019-2020, the program chair of CLEO 2021 and the General Chair of CLEO 2023.