Yong P. Chen received his BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University and MIT respectively, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. After doing a postdoc in physics and nanotechnology at Rice University, he joined the faculty of Purdue University in 2007 and has become the Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, and Director of NSF IUCRC Center for Quantum Technologies. He has also held various international affiliated faculty and research appointments, including Aarhus University, Denmark as a Villum Investigator Professor, and Tohoku University, Japan as a principal investigator in its Advanced Institute for Materials Research. His group works on a wide range of quantum matters and their applications, and has made important contributions to the study of graphene, topological insulators, 2D materials, and cold atoms & molecules. He was a recipient of Masao Horiba Award, NSF CAREER Award, DOD Young Investigator Award and IBM Faculty Award. He is an elected Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) and currently also serves as a commissioner in International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and a member of the Governance Advisory Board (GAB) of Quantum Science Center, a Department of Energy Quantum Information Science Research Center that was funded in 2020 with $115 million over five years.