Dr. Ming Yu is currently a Professor of Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Louisville. She received her B.S. degree in Theoretical Physics from Liaoning University (China) in 1982, M.S. degree in Solid-State Physics from Northeastern University (China) in 1987, and Ph. D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Hokkaido Institute of Technology (Japan) in 1995. She worked at Max Planck Institute for the Physics Complex Systems (Germany) as a Visiting Scientist (1995-1997), at Ohio University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (1997-1999), and at University of Louisville as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (1999-2007) before she became a faculty at University of Louisville. She has extensive expertise in condensed matter theory and computational materials science. She has been involved in the development of a finite temperature theory for amorphous magnetic alloys based on the functional integral method (1991-1995), the electron correlation effects on molecules and solids using ab initio calculations (1995-1997), the development of an efficient method to determine optical and electronic transport properties of wide band-gap semiconductors, disordered systems, surfaces, and clusters based on the first-principles calculations with the self-energy corrections (1997-1999), the development of a highly efficient quantum mechanics simulation scheme for predicting and characterizing large-scale and complex systems (since 1999), which is capable of self-consistently determining the charge redistribution and taking into consideration of the environment-dependency and is designed to circumvent the limitations associated with first principles calculations, the new routes to computationally discovering novel nanomaterials with pronounced tunable bandgaps and unique anisotropic physical properties through bulk truncations and intercalation (since 2007), and deep understanding and characterizing nanomaterials for their promising applications for the next generation of clean energy, energy storage, nanoelectronics, and sensing (since 2010). She has published over 70 articles in referred journals (including one handbook and two invited reviews), delivered about 18 invited talks and over 100 presentations in the national and international conferences. One of the articles has been selected for the cover of a prestigious journal and the other has been selected as a HOT Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics article.