Deng Pan received a Master's degree in engineering mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1998 and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in the United States in 2003. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Material Genome Engineering, Shanghai University. He is mainly researching multi-field coupling and cross-scale correlation evaluations of the mechanical properties of functional materials (especially micro–nanoscale mechanical properties) and related high-throughput experimental characterization methods and technologies, material informatics, and mechanical informatics under artificial intelligence and big data. He has published a large number of academic results in preliminary research on algorithms and the transformation and industrialization of results based on material genetic engineering.