Dr. Gao received his Ph. D. degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2008 to 2012. During his Ph.D. he was a visiting scholar at Prof. H. Eugene Stanley’s lab at Boston University from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Gao’s major contribution includes the theory for robustness of networks of networks and resilience of complex networks. Since 2010, Dr. Gao has published over 20 journal papers in Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and more, with over 15 hundreds citations on Google Scholar. Dr. Gao has been selected as the Editor board of Nature Scientific Reports, distinguished referee of EPL (2014-2016) and Elsevier (2016), and referee of Science, PNAS, PRL, PRX and more. His publications were reported over 20 times by international public and professional media.