Prof. Xiaoming Xie is a research professor at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice dean of the State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, leader of the National Science and Technology Major Project “Wafer scale graphene material and devices”. His major research fields include graphene, superconductor and graphene/superconductor hetero-structures with special focuses on synthesis of single crystalline graphene on metallic and dielectric substrates. His group has managed to synthesize centimeter-sized single crystal graphene domain on alloy substrate with controlled nucleation site. He has published a series of papers on CVD growth of graphene on h-BN from principle demonstration to ultrafast growth, realizing precisely aligned single crystalline grains up to 20 mm with an ultra-high growth rate of ~ 1 mm/minute.