Hou Ian received the B.S. (cum laude) and M.Eng. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, USA, in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Research Scientist with the Digital Materials Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Macau, China.