Dr. Ling-Jian Meng obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton, UK, in 2002. He has been working in the Department of Radiology and the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a postdoc fellow and then as an Assistant Research Professor from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Meng joined the faculty of the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, the Department of Bioengineering, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2006, and was promoted to a Full Professor in 2017. He has also been a Visiting Associate Professor of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction of Medical Imaging (TMI), and a Charter Member and Co-Chair of the NIBIB Imaging Technology Development (ITD) study session. Dr. Meng’s research is primarily focused on the development of nuclear imaging techniques for biomedical research through numerous NIH-funded projects. His work has also been supported by DOE, NASA, and NRC for developing advanced radiation detectors and imaging systems for astrophysics, environmental, and nuclear security applications.