Lin Shao is a Robert Cochran University Professor at Texas A&M University. He currently directs the Accelerator Laboratory at Texas A&M University, which is a US Department of Energy NSUF user facility. He obtained his BS in Nuclear Physics from Peking University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Houston in 2001. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he was a director-funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has published about 300 journal papers and holds 18 issued U.S. patents. He invented a series of ion beam technologies for accelerator-based applications that impact semiconductor device fabrication, advanced sensors, and advanced reactors. He has contributed to the standardization of accelerator irradiation testing to emulate neutron damage in reactors, fundamental ion-solid interactions, defect clustering under complicated boundary conditions, and the development of radiation-tolerant materials. He is an elected fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He has received numerous teaching and research awards, including the inaugural Ion Beam Modification of Materials Prize, a University Professorship, a Senior Faculty Fellowship, and the Association of Former Students’ University-Level Distinguished Achievements in Research. He was the conference chair of IBMM 2018, REM 10, and AccApp' 21.