Dr. Tan is a teacher at Hunan University of Science and Technology, China, where he specializes in the joining of similar/dissimilar materials and manufacturing of lightweight high-entropy alloy. In 2010, Tan earned his bachelor′s degree in Metal Materials and Engineering at Xi′an Technological University (Xi’an, China). In 2017, he received his doctoral degree in materials physics and chemistry at Zhengzhou University (Zhengzhou, China). Tan has published over 15 journal papers about welding of similar/dissimilar materials and high-entropy alloy.