Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987, a M.S. degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University (with George M. Whitesides) in 1996. In addition to methodology development and mechanistic understanding, he invented a myriad of nanomaterials with controlled properties for applications related to plasmonics, electronics, photonics, photovoltaics, display, catalysis, energy conversion, nanomedicine, and regenerative medicine. As a notable example, the silver nanowires invented by him have been commercialized by many companies for the production of cost-effective and high-performance touchscreen interfaces and flexible electrodes. The gold nanocages invented by him are advancing cancer theranostics, including early diagnosis, controlled release, and photothermal treatment. He also made a range of original and important contributions to the development of electrospinning into a powerful technique for the fabrication of nanomaterials with controlled properties. He further explored the use of electrospun nanofibers as patches for wound dressing and as scaffolds for neural, orthopedic, and interface tissue engineering. He advanced this field by bringing controls to the nanofibers in such patches and scaffolds, including their composition, alignment, porosity, surface chemistry, and mechanical strength. Xia has co-authored over 800 peer-reviewed publications, together with a total citation of more than 160,000 and an H-index above 200. He has been named a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist in the world. He has received a number of prestigious awards, including Materials Research Society (MRS) Metal (2017), American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering (2000), NSF CAREER Award (2000). More information can be found at http://www.nanocages.com.