Editors-in-Chief Spotlight

Prof. Dr. Xuejuan Deng is the Deputy Director of the National Biofeed Engineering Technology Research Center. Her research focuses on biofeed development, microbial fermentation technology, and animal nutrition and health. She has led several major national and provincial research projects and holds multiple invention patents and technology transfer achievements. Prof. Deng has served as editor-in-chief or co-editor of seven academic monographs and has contributed to the development of several national and industry standards. She has also led the formulation of more than 40 group standards for the biofeed industry, helping to establish key standards in this field. Her research achievements have earned several provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and multiple outcomes have been recognized as internationally advanced. She also serves as Secretary-General of the Beijing Biofeed Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. She holds expert positions on several committees under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, including the Expert Committee for Feed and Feed Additive Production Licensing.

Prof. Guozheng Liu, a Senior Research Engineer and graduate of Peking University, is the former Director of the Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Technical Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China. He has long been engaged in environmental management and technical support related to solid waste, hazardous waste, chemicals, and emerging contaminants, with extensive experience and recognized contributions in these fields. He has led or contributed to a number of major national research projects in ecology and environment, and has played a key role in the development of national regulations, policies, plans, standards, and technical systems. He has led several key national research initiatives and presided over the development of national environmental policies and technical frameworks. He is dedicated to advancing the 'Zero-Waste City' model, waste-to-resource innovation, and environmental risk control. He has published multiple academic papers and edited several monographs and technical guidelines, contributing to policy innovation, technological advancement, and sector development in China’s solid waste and chemicals management.

Prof. Dr. Sheng Jin is a National Distinguished Expert of China and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Expert Committee at the Beijing Center for Senior National Experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Otago, an M.Sc. from Donghua University, and a B.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has held academic positions at several Australian universities and served as Chief Professor and Dean of the Australian Information Technology Institute (ITiC), as well as Chairman of the Academic Board and an independent board member at Raffles University. He has also provided consultancy to international companies and served as an overseas reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and as a founding council member and honorary advisor of the International Society for Computer Ethics. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals and in organizing roles for 21 international conferences, and has held various professional and governmental advisory positions. He has published about 347 EI/SCI-indexed papers, authored 13 monographs, and holds 18 patents. He has led 25 national-level research projects and achieved notable technical advances and successful industrial applications in areas including financial payment systems, smart cities, advanced semiconductor technologies, and industrial intelligent vision. His research contributions also include the development of the CBIR-VU visual information retrieval system and the CSS+ high-dimensional index tree, as well as work on recursive Laplacian–Gaussian filtering adopted by organizations such as the NIH, SRI International, and Silicon Graphics. He has also contributed to research on semantic hypervideo, the VIML language, data-driven cortical folding analysis, and intelligent sensor technologies for the Internet of Things, including work with CSIRO.

Dr. Ping Zhang is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology at Tianjin Medical University. After graduating from Peking University Health Science Center, he held faculty positions at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, followed by appointments as a postdoctoral fellow and research professor at Indiana University. His research focuses on bone metabolism and remodeling, stem cell differentiation, and the treatment of orthopedic diseases. Since becoming Chair of the Department in 2013, he has led the development of several municipal-level key courses, including Human Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, and has overseen national-level courses such as Systemic Anatomy and Human Anatomy for international students. He has also served as an editor, co-editor, or editorial board member for 14 national textbooks. His work in stem cells and regenerative medicine explores the mobilization of endogenous stem cells for disease treatment and has been supported by the NIH, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Tianjin’s Applied Basic and Frontier Technology Research Program. He has published over 160 papers, participated in more than 90 international conferences, and delivered more than 30 invited keynote lectures.

Professor Mingxing Zhang is a world leader in the area of crystallography of phase transformations and its applications in engineering materials, and is recognised as one of the top researchers in the areas of phase transformations, grain refinement for cast metals, additive manufacturing of metals, and surface engineering. Prof. Zhang obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from the Inner Mongolian University of Science and Technology and his Master of Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. In 1997, he was awarded his PhD degree by the University of Queensland. His research expertise and interests include crystallography of phase transformations, grain refinement and alloy development of aluminium and magnesium alloys, surface modification and coatings, bainitic transformation and bainitic steels. Prof. Zhang's research hopes are to apply his fundamental research results to develop new generation metallic materials and to improve the current materials processing techniques. His research outcomes will also offer materials scientists a totally new way to undertake surface treatment for metallic materials, therefore to significantly improving the surface durability of these types of materials. For example, the recently developed new packed powder diffusion coating technique for titanium alloys will enable the replacement of the highly costive superalloys with Ti alloys. The research also hopes to enhance Australia's competitive ability in international markets in light metals and contribute significantly to material science with the study of the mechanism of phase transformations in solids.