Jia-Hu Ouyang is a professor of materials science at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). He received his BS (1988) from Wuhan University of Technology, MS (1991) and PhD (1994) in materials science from HIT, China. He joined the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at HIT in 1994. He was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), Germany. He worked as a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, for three and a half years, and at Southern Methodist University (SMU), USA, for another two years. His current research interests include advanced ceramics and composites, tribomaterials, advanced surface engineering, and rare-earth energy materials. He has authored or co-authored more than 340 peer-reviewed journal papers with an h-index of 46 (Scopus, March 2024).