Prof. Xiaowen Shan is a Chair Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at BNU-HKBU United International College. Dr. Shan received his BS and MS degrees from Beijing University in 1985 and 1988 respectively, and his Ph. D. from Dartmouth College in 1991. From 1991 to 2012 he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft, and Exa Corporation (now part of Dassault Systems SE). In 2012 he joined Beijing Research Center of the Commercial Aircraft Company of China (COMAC) as the Director for Aerodynamics. In 2016 he joined the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology as the founding department head. Dr. Shan is best known for the Shan-Chen non-ideal gas lattice Boltzmann model that he co-invented in 1993. The original paper published in Physical Review E was recognized as one of the 25 Milestones in celebrating the Journal’s 25th anniversary in 2018. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of American Physical Society for “seminal contributions in the formulation and applications of lattice Boltzmann models for multiphase and complex fluids; and for pioneering Lattice-Boltzmann-method based fluid dynamics algorithms for real-world engineering applications.”