Dr. Songrui Zhao holds Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Solid State Physics from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), respectively. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. In the past few years, he has been working on the MBE growth and characterization of III-nitride nanowire heterostructures and their application to optoelectronic devices, with a recent focus on deep UV LEDs and lasers. His research on electrically pumped deep UV lasers has been highlighted in Laser Focus World, Compound Semiconductor, Semiconductor-today, etc. He is also the recipient/co-recipient of the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the 29th - 31th North American MBE Conference and the 18th International Conference on MBE. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is also the author/co-author of 5 book chapters on nitride semiconductors.