Liqun Li received her Ph.D. from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology in 2003. She is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining at Harbin Institute of Technology. She is mainly engaged in research on laser additive manufacturing of metal materials, laser cladding and repair, high-power laser welding, ultrafast laser micro-nano processing, and laser processing process quality monitoring. She is currently a member of the Laser Processing Subcommittee of the China Optical Committee and a member of the Computer-Aided Welding Engineering Professional Committee of the Welding Branch of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering. As the project and subject leader, she has presided over and participated in more than 40 key projects of the National Key R&D Program, major national science and technology projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, and provincial, ministerial and various industrial cooperation projects. She has won 1 provincial first prize for scientific and technological progress, 15 authorized patents, 4 software copyrights, and published more than 200 academic papers in domestic and foreign journals. She has served as the chairman of the conference/branch at international conferences in this academic field many times, and has served as the editor and reviewer of more than a dozen domestic and foreign academic journals.