Prof. Hongyu Zheng gained his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985 and a Ph.D in Laser Materials Processing from Imperial College London in 1990. Prior to joining Shandong University of Technology (SDUT), he was a principal scientist in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) of Singapore, leading a research team in laser micro-/nano-processing. In 2014, he and his team won the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award of Singapore. Prof Zheng has been an elected Fellow of the International Society of Nano-Manufacturing (ISNM) since 2014. His current research interests include ultrafast laser-matter interactions, micro-/nano-processing mechanisms, in-process monitoring, and data analytics.