Yong Sun is an Engineering Professor at Jihua Laboratory (JHL), Foshan, Guangdong, China. Before joining JHL, he was a Professor of Surface Engineering at the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. He has many years of experience in materials engineering education and research. He has worked at several institutions, including the University of Birmingham in the U.K., the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, De Montfort University in the UK and Jihua Laboratory in China. His major research areas include surface engineering, tribology, corrosion and tribocorrosion. He has published more than 240 journal and conference papers, with citations of more than 9250 and an H-index of 52.