Ming Guo, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and associated faculty in the MIT Physics of Living Systems Center and Center for Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems. His group develops biomechanical tools to characterize cells and tissues as soft active matter, and to understand how cell physical properties and biological functions influence each other to together facilitate development and disease progression. Before joining MIT in 2015, Dr. Guo obtained his PhD in 2014 in Applied Physics, and MS in 2012 in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards including Alfred Sloan Fellow in Physics and IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics. Dr. Guo is an associated editor of the Journal of Biological Physics.