Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih received his PhD from Stanford in 1988. In 1990 he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where he currently serves as the Arnold Romberg Endowed Chair in Physics. He leads the Nanoelectronics and Quantum Dynamics Research Group which focuses on the quantum optical control of semiconductor nanostructures, the growth and characterization of superconducting nanostructures and atomically smooth epitaxial metallic films on silicon as a platform for plasmonics.