Zhe Wang received his Ph.D. in mechanics engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2007 and then joined the faculty of Tsinghua University. He devoted his academic career towards promoting laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in real industrial application by focusing on improving its quantification performance. He published more than 90 peer reviewed papers and holds over 30 patents. He is the deputy director and general secretary of the LIBS committee of Chinese Society of Optical Engineering and initiated LIBS Summit in 2019.