Vita: Dr. Wing Kam Liu, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, Founding Director of the NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials, Founding Chair of the ASME NanoEngineering Council, Vice Chair of the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics within the National Academies, and Co-Founding Director of the Northwestern University Predictive Science and Engineering Design Program, received his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Chicago; his M.S. and Ph.D. both from Caltech. He is a world leader in multiscale simulation-based engineering and science and has applied a spectrum of atomistic, quantum, and continuum strategies towards the understanding and design of nano-materials, biological processes, and recently the use of organic and inorganic materials for drug delivery device, bio-sensing, and other diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The impact of his research contributions is attested by the large number of citations to his work (11,500 according to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) with an H-factor of 54; 22,000 according to Google with an H-factor of 72). In 2001, he was cited by the ISI as “one of the most highly cited, influential researchers in Engineering, and an original member highly cited researchers database”. Selected honors include the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) Gauss-Newton Medal, the highest award given by IACM; the ASME Dedicated Service Award, the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, the Dedicated Service Award, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal and the Melville Medal, (all from ASME); the John von Neumann Medal and the Computational Structural Mechanics Award from the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM), the highest honor given by USACM; and the IACM Computational Mechanics Award, and the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers. Liu chaired the ASME Applied Mechanics Division and is a past president of USACM. He is the editor of two International Journals and honorary editor of two journals and has been a consultant for more than 20 organizations. Liu has written three books; and he is a Fellow of ASME, ASCE, USACM, AAM, and IACM.