Hao Zeng is the Moti Lal Rustgi Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Nanjing University, China, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He joined UB as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2014. Dr. Zeng is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and US NSF CAREER Award. He has published 160 papers, which have been cited 24,000 times. His current research interests include nanoscale magnetism and spintronics, bio-applications of magnetic nanoparticles, and chalcogenide perovskite semiconductors.