Zhi ming Shi is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He graduated from the Department of Materials, Inner Mongolia Institute of Technology, with a BS in July 1985; the Department of Metal Materials, Jilin University of Technology, with an MS in July 1988; and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, with a PhD in July 2001. He has published more than 150 papers in related fields, including Scripta Mater., Mater. des. J. Amer. Ceram. Soc, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc, J. Mater. Sci. Eng: A, J. Alloys Comp., etc.