Prof. Kendall N. Houk from UCLA is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and a member of the International Academy of Quantum and Molecular Sciences. Prof. Houk received his bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University in 1964 and 1968 (under Nobel Laureate Prof. R. B. Woodward), respectively. He then joined Louisiana State University, University of Pittsburgh, and UCLA.  He was named as a Saul Winstein Chair Professor at UCLA in 2009. Prof. Houk has been serving as a senior editor of Accounts of Chemical Research for decades. In 2009, he received the Arthur C. Cope Award, the highest honor in the field of organic chemistry from the American Chemical Society. In 2012, he received the Robert Robinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Houk is an expert on theoretical and computational organic chemistry. His research group developed general rules for understanding chemical reactivity, simulated complex organic reactions, and experimentally verified many theoretical predictions. Prof. Houk has achieved fruitful results in theoretical and computational predictions of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, quantitative catalytic models of asymmetric reactions, the mechanism and kinetic effects of pericyclic reactions, and dual-radical processes. . Prof. Houk has published more than 1,250 SCI papers (H-index: 120) in academic journals. He is one of the 100 most cited chemists in the world.