Lei Zhang is a professor at the school of chemical engineering, Dalian University of Technology. His current research interests include the development of methods and tools for chemical product and process design integrated with information and computing technologies, machine learning model, computational chemistry and molecular simulation. He received National Science Fund China for Excellent Young Scholars, the 2017 best paper award from the Computers & Chemical Engineering journal, 2019 PSE young researcher award by PSE – Systems Engineering Society of China, 2023 RINENG Young Investigator Award. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Technical University of Denmark, and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. He received BS and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University in China.