Prof. Dr. Qilin Zhang is a professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. He received his bachelor's degree from Southeast University in 1982, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Tongji University in 1985 and 1988, respectively. His main research interests include: steel structures and building cable structures; membrane structures; aluminum alloy structures; glass curtain wall systems; steel structure residential systems; structural stability and nonlinear numerical analysis; and civil engineering computer simulation.