Dr Chi (David) Cheng is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Chemical Engineering at UNSW Sydney, where he established the Nanofluidics and Advanced Separations Laboratory in 2023. Previously, he held appointments as a Postdoctoral Scholar and subsequently as a Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2022. Dr Cheng received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Monash University in 2014 and his BEng in Polymer Materials and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in 2010. From 2016 to 2017, he worked in the Research and Development Division of DuluxGroup Australia, focusing on functional coatings. He was awarded the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship in 2017 and an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2021. Dr Cheng served as Alumni Committee Chair of the MIT Postdoctoral Association from 2018 to 2019 and as an MIT Communication Lab Fellow in 2019. His research and teaching focus on transport phenomena, membrane science, and nanopore technologies for advanced bio- and chemical separations, addressing critical challenges in resource and energy security.