Professor Weidong Zhou is Janet and Mike Greene Professor and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is the Director of the UTA Photonics Center. He obtained his BS and ME degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Zhou and his group have made significant contributions in the areas of photonic crystal laser scaling for energy-efficient integrated photonics and micro transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembranes for heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor materials with silicon, for integrated silicon photonics and flexible optoelectronics. The work has been published in very high impact factor journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nature Bioengineering, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, etc. The group is currently continuing the efforts on high power photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) and related technologies for defense, space, and civilian applications. Dr. Zhou has authored and co-authored over 400 journal publications and conference presentations, including ~ 140 invited conference talks and seminar talks. He has 7 issued US patents with a few more pending. He also published one book and 5 book chapters. Dr. Zhou is a fellow of SPIE, and a fellow of Optica (formerly OSA), a senior member of IEEE.