Chen Hu is an assistant rofessor in the Department of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2021 to 2024. He earned his PhD in physics from McGill University in Canada in 2020. His research engages in the fields of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational material science, with the primary aim of exploring novel quantum material physics through advanced first-principles theoretical methodologies and computational tools. He focuses on intriguing photoexcited phenomena, ultrafast and nonlinear optoelectronics, topological physics, quantum transport, and spintronics in emerging low-dimensional quantum materials and nanodevices.