Dr. Yongqiang Fu received his Ph.D. in engineering from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2021 and completed his postdoctoral research at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (National Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Technology for High-end Equipment) at Tsinghua University in 2023. In September 2023, he joined the Institute of Tribology and Surface Engineering, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at Qingdao University of Technology, where he is currently an associate professor and a master’s supervisor. He is a Class A talent (Level 5) and a member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering. His main research areas include: carbon-based solid self-lubricating coatings, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant marine hard coatings, and solid–liquid composite lubrication. He has published more than 20 papers in Chinese and English and applied for two national invention patents.