Dr. WEI GAO, B.E., M.E., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also Co-ordinator of Materials Research Cluster, there. Dr. Gao received his BE and ME in Metallic Materials from North-eastern University and Beijing Central Research Institute China, and a Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Oxford University, UK. He also spent five years as a Researcher, Principal Investigator and Technical Director of the Rapid Solidification Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. At the University of Auckland, he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and actively conducts materials research in the areas of nano-materials and nano-technology, advanced coating and surface technologies, high temperature corrosion & oxidation, superconductors, electronic ceramics, photo-luminescence materials, intermetallics, rapid solidification, amorphous alloys, electron microscopy and microanalysis, and computer modeling and applications in materials processing and performance. He has published more than 250 research papers, a textbook, several chapters in books and an encyclopedia. He holds 5 US/international patents and 3 MIT Disclosures. He is currently on the editorial board of a number of journals, has been invited to give numerous keynote and invited lectures, and is the member of many professional associations including IPENZ, ACA, MRS, AMS, TMS. He is Honorary Professor for several overseas Universities. Dr Gao is a citizen of China and New Zealand, and fluent in English and Mandarin.