Dr. Liping Xue has many years experience in computational materials science and solid mechanics. He has been recognized as an outstanding young scientist in this field. He played the leading role in simulating the role of interface in the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube composites. The results of his numerical modeling have been published in the world’s most prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Journal of Applied Physics, and Applied Physics Letters. The results were also reported by the Rensselaer Online News & Information and by Rensselaer Magazine. They have received worldwide attention and been cited numerous times due to their many positive implications in the high-technology industry. Dr. Xue also improved the material point method (MPM) and extended its use from solid mechanics to solid-fluid interacting simulations. His work on the MPM is essential to the C-SAFE project at University of Utah. Dr. Xue is the Principle Investigator of several government and industrial contracts. He is now one of the technical leaders for the development of ADI’s integrated and variable-fidelity computer software, ASTE-P. Dr. Xue received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 2004 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He then worked as a research associate at University of Utah. Dr. Xue joined ADI in 2007 as a senior research scientist.