Zhenyu Jiang is a professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology. His research interests mainly focus on the fields of experimental solid mechanics and composite material mechanics, including photomechanical methods, mechanical models of advanced materials, development of high-performance engineering materials, application of artificial intelligence in mechanical problems, sports biomechanics, etc. He received a bachelor’s degree in theoretical and applied mechanics and a doctorate in solid mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He served as a Research Associate at the Institute of Composite Materials at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany (2005–2007); as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2007–2009); and as an Associate Professor at the South China University of Technology (2011–2017) and was promoted to full professor in 2017. He has presided over three National Natural Science Foundation projects, participated in two National Natural Science Foundation key projects, and has been a review expert of the National Natural Science Foundation for a long time. He has chaired and participated in a number of provincial, ministerial, and enterprise science and technology projects.