Lin Shao is Robert Cochran University Professor at Texas A&M University. He is also the director of the Accelerator Laboratory in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He obtained his BS degree in Nuclear Physics from Peking University and his PhD in Physics from the University of Houston. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests are radiation materials science and accelerator-based ion beam processing. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.