Yahui Xue is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his BSc in 2009 and PhD in 2015 from the College of Engineering at Peking University. From 2011 to 2013, he visited the Institute of Materials Research at Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht in Germany. Before joining Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has authored peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. His research interests lie in extremely confined ion transport under multifield coupling, microfluidic flow and heat transfer, and micro- and nanomechanics.