Dr. Peng Li is a Professor of Microelectronics at University of Science and Technology of China. Before the current position, he was an assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the head of the Quantum Spintronics Device Laboratory at Auburn University. He studies quantum and spintronic materials and devices for future computing and storage applications. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in the Department of Electronic Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2007 and 2009, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 2014. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (2018-2019) and Colorado State University (2014-2015, 2017-2018), an Associate Professor at HUST (2017), as well as a Senior Research Engineer at Seagate Technology (2015-2016). He has published 50+ papers, including Nature Communications and Science Advances, book chapters, two review articles, and two patents. He is a Committee Member for the IEEE Magnetics Society Education Committee, IEEE Intermag/MMM Best Presentation Selection Committee, and Stanford Topological Insulator Consortium. He has organized major international conferences, including IEEE International Magnetics Conference and Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE transactions on Quantum Engineering, a senior editorial member of IEEE Magnetics Letters. He received Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2021.