Prof. Baoli Yao obtained the Ph.D. degree at Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS in 1997, and pursued the postdoctoral work in Technical University of Munich, Germany during 1997-1998. He is currently the director of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics. His research areas include: super-resolution optical microscopy, digital holographic microscopy, optical micro-manipulation and micro-fabrication, optical data storage and information processing. He invented the DMD-based LED-illumination structured illumination microscope (SIM) and got the 90nm lateral resolution. He designed and developed an optical tweezers system, which has been successfully commercialized and exported to Canada. He proposed a new theoretical description for the vector beams, and predicted the improvement of axial trapping efficiency by radially polarized beams. He proposed a new approach to generation of multiple isotropic super-diffraction-limit focused spots and the dynamic shifting method. He implemented the high density holographic optical encoded data storage in biomaterial. He has published more than 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 6 book’s chapters, and owned 18 approved Chinese invention patents. He obtained the High-Speed Imaging Award of Japan in 2015.