Prof. Dr. Lijie Ci is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He earned his B.S. from Shandong Institute of Technology (1994), an M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology (1996), and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University (2000). Before the current position, Prof. Dr. Lijie Ci was a Professor at Shandong University in 2013–2019. He has years of experiences in the research field. His work has resulted in over 360 publications in various journals, with an h-index of 70 and citations of over 20,000.