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Biosketch: Prof. Kai-Ming Ho is a Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University and Senior Scientist at the Ames Laboratory. He is a world leader in photonic crystals, and his research interests also include the area of electronic and structural properties of crystals, surfaces, clusters, metallic liquid and glass systems. Prof. Ho is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Among his many awards, he received a DOE-BES Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award and a DOE award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. His research also received the 2012 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physic from the American Physical Society. He has published over 400 papers with more than 17000 citations (his h-index is 70) and he holds seven patents.
