Professor Hsi-Sheng Goan received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1999. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 1999 to 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Senior Research Fellow awarded the Hewlett-Packard Fellowship at the Center for Quantum Computer Technology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, before he took up a faculty position at the Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2005. He has been a Professor of Physics at NTU since 2011 working in the fields of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information, Quantum Control, Open Quantum Systems, Mesoscopic (Nano) Physics, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Optomechanical and Electromechanical Systems. He is currently the Director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering at NTU, and the Director of the IBM Quantum Hub at NTU. He has been an author and co-author of more than 100 research papers and 5 chapters in monographs or books, and has delivered more than 60 invited talks/lectures at international conferences, workshops, meetings and schools.  He has served as a member of the Editorial Boards of several international scientific journals, such as EPJ: Quantum Technology, International Journal of Quantum Information, and Chinese Journal of Physics.