Dr. Jie Sun is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University. He completed his PhD studies at Northeastern University in 2011. In 2017, he was awarded the 2011 Steel Common Technology Collaborative Innovation Center Innovation Pioneer honor. In addition, he was a Deputy to the 14th Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress. As the main executive, he developed the automatic control system of plate and strip rolling with independent intellectual property rights, completed the R&D and debugging projects of more than 30 cold/hot rolling control systems, developed a full set of industrial control software for cold rolling and hot rolling, and formed a foreign technological advantage, and the leading results were appraised by several academicians that “The overall technology has reached the international leading level”. His research interests include Key technology of intelligent control of plate and strip rolling; R&D of automatic control systems for continuous rolling.