Hongliang Pan received his B.S. degree in mechanical design and manufacturing from Shanghai University of Technology in 1993, his M.S. degree in mechanical manufacturing from Shanghai University in 1996, and his Ph.D. degree in transportation information engineering and control from Tongji University in Shanghai, China in 2013. He is currently an associate researcher of National Maglev Transportation Engineering Technology R&D Center of Tongji University. He is a Shanghai registered consulting expert, a national registered consulting (investment) engineer, a national registered safety engineer, a director of Shanghai Engineering Management Society and a registered expert of the National Railway Bureau. His research fields include maglev transportation control system, system safety research, RAMS research of rail transit system, etc.