Dr. Dan Xiang has over 35 years of experience in cutting-edge R&D and technology transitioning/commercialization. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, one of top-two universities in China, where he joined the faculty and was promoted as one of the university’s youngest associate professors in 1992. He moved to the US in 1994, and received a M.S. degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Before founding X-wave Innovations, he had worked with several government agencies (NASA, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), Universities (Tsinghua University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland), and commercial companies over a variety of projects from materials to nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring (NDE/SHM) to ultrasound to sensor systems to information technologies. He holds 2 issued patents, 4 pending patents, and has over 70 publications in the field of sensor technologies and NDE/SHM. He is managing and directing company-wide strategies and efforts in both innovative technologies development and technical transitioning/commercialization.