Prof. Minghui Cai received a BS and a PhD from Northeastern University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow at Yonsei University from 2009 to 2011 and as an Associate Research Fellow at Deakin University from 2012 to 2015. Currently, he is a tenured professor at Northeastern University. He is a guest editor of the journals “Frontiers in Materials” and “Metals”. His main research direction is multi-scale structural design and microstructure-performance control of metallic materials.