Prof. Zhu Dachang is currently a professor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Machinery at Southern Metallurgical College in 1996, followed by a Master’s degree in Mechanical Design and Theory in 1999. He completed his PhD studies in Mechanical Design and Theory at the Beijing Jiaotong University in 2008. He is also a senior member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, a director of the Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Branch of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society/Guangdong Automation Society, and the Executive Chairman of the 286th Young and Middle-aged Scientists Forum of the China Association for Science and Technology. His research topics mainly include multi-scale structural topology optimization, metamaterial micro–nano structure configuration synthesis, and optimization.