Dr. Zhijian Pei is working as a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995. He has an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 1984. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Zhengzhou University (Zhengzhou Institute of Technology), China, 1982. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He was awarded the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2004) and the Director’s Award for Excellence Program Director from the National Science Foundation (2015). His research interests include cybermanufacturing systems, additive manufacturing, and subtractive manufacturing processes.