Hong Yong Sohn received his B.S. from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After Du Pont, he joined the University of Utah in 1974, where he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor. Professor Sohn has received the TMS Educator Award; the Distinguished Research Award from the University of Utah; the Billiton Gold Medal from IMM; the TMS Fellow Award; the AIME Douglas Gold Medal; the TMS Mathewson Gold Medal; the TMS Extractive Metallurgy Lecturer Award; the TMS EPD Science Award (four times); the Fulbright Lecturer Award; and the Dreyfus Foundation Scholar Award. TMS honored him at the 2016 “Sohn International Symposium”. Dr. Sohn has authored 5 monographs, 26 chapters, 5 patents, and 600 papers. Syamantak Roy is working as a metallurgist for Commercial Assay and Quality Control department at Freeport-McMoRan. He completed his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Utah. During his Ph.D., He worked on developing a novel hydrogen ironmaking process. Earlier, during his M.S. program, he worked on developing a process for selective removal of impurities from reduced titanium slag in the context of a novel titanium extraction process. He coauthored 3 papers in the last 4 years.