Gerard C. L. Wong is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Dept of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Wong received his BS and PhD in physics at Caltech and Berkeley. He joined the Materials Science Department and Physics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and was recruited to UCLA in 2009. His research recognition includes a Beckman Young Investigator Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. His research group has produced 12 professors worldwide.