Dr. Meng Tao is a professor of electrical engineering at Arizona State University. His research focuses on clean energy technologies. It covers a wide range of topics from materials and devices to systems and applications. Current research projects include recycling technologies for solar panels; solar systems for green hydrogen production, electric vehicle charging, and power management in microgrids; and molten-salt electrorefining for solar-grade silicon. For the last two decades, he has been promoting clean energy at the national and global levels, including the initiation and launch of the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium in 2011 and the Global Hydrogen Production Technologies Center in 2023. Dr. Tao was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy at Chalmers University of Technology, an International Fellow at Adelaide University, and a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.