Prof. Lin Zhang is a Tenured professor at the School of Automation, Beihang University, the leader in the Industrial Internet and Knowledge-Driven Automation discipline, and director of the International Simulation Technology Innovation Center of the Beihang University Hangzhou International Innovation Institute. He received his master's degree and PhD degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.  His research mainly focuses on complex system modeling and simulation, modeling and simulation language, designing large-scale simulation models, intelligent manufacturing, cloud manufacturing, model engineering, model-based system engineering, service network and intelligent scheduling, etc.