Professor Zhong-Jin Ruan earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987. His research interests include operator spaces, operator algebras, and locally compact quantum groups. He has obtained several awards including the Mahlon M. Day Award for Distinguished Mathematical Research and College of LAS Alumni Discretionary Award. He also has served as the editor of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, and has been the editor of Frontiers of Mathematics since 2008.