Prof.Yian Shi was born in Jiangsu, China in 1963. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Nanjing University in 1983, M.Sc. degree from University of Toronto with Professor Ian W. J. Still in 1987, and Ph.D. degree from StanfordUniversity with Professor Barry M. Trost in 1992. After a postdoctoral study at HarvardMedicalSchool with Professor Christopher Walsh, he joined ColoradoStateUniversity as assistant professor in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and professor in 2003. He served as the director of CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, ChineseAcademy of Sciences during 2009-2012. He also started a research program at NanjingUniversity from 2012. His current research interests include the development of new synthetic methods, asymmetric catalysis, and synthesis of biologically active molecules. He has received a number of honors for research and teaching, including the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1995), Beckman Young Investigator Award (1997), National Science Foundation Career Award (1999), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1999), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1999), DuPont Young Faculty Award (1999), Eli Lilly Grantee Award (1999), GlaxoWellcome Inc. Chemistry Scholar Award (2000), Researcher of the Year Award, Colorado State University Research Foundation (2000), Lectureship Award, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (2001), Monfort Professorship Award, Colorado State University (2002), American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2004), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (2009), and Eun Lee Lectureship Award, Seoul National University (2013).