Prof. Weihong Zhang is a Professor of the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Manufacturing Engineering, and the Vice Principal at the Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He completed his Master’s and PhD studies at the LTAS-Aerospace Laboratory, University of Liege, Belgium. His research interests are multidisciplinary design optimization of advanced structures and materials, computational mechanics of solids and structures, and computational mechanics and manufacturing process simulation.