Zhang Yiming is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Hebei University of Technology, Overseas High-level Talents Introduced by the Ministry of Organization of the CPC, President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His research field is geotechnical-engineering disaster prevention and mitigation, as well as computational mechanics. He has won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, three of his SCI papers have been awarded the most cited international journals in his field, and he has presided over three national projects and many provincial and ministerial projects.