Prof Qiaoliang Bao is the group leader of Optoelectronics Lab at FUNSOM, Soochow University, and also one of the core members at Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials. Bao has a PhD in materials physics and worked as senior research fellow on graphene photonics in Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS). He was enrolled in Thousand Young Talents Program of China in 2012. His main contributions include the demonstration of graphene-based mode-locked laser and graphene broadband polarizer. His current research interests include photonic and optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional materials including graphene, perovskite, black phosphorus, layered transition metal dichalcogenides and topological insulators. Bao has over 100 peer-review publications in prestigious journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials and ACS Nano, etc. His publications have received >8000 citations, with an H-index of 40.