Dr Xu Qingyan is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. His current research is interdisciplinary and focuses on a wide range of topics within the field of materials engineering, manufacturing process, mechanical engineering and computational materials science. He is the principal investigator of more than 20 projects in recent years, such as National Key R&D Program of China, National Science and Technology Major Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. He is an author/co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers, 9 books and 8 patents. He is acting as a reviewer for many top rated journals in Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. He received the first prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award and the first prize of Invention and Entrepreneurship Achievement Award of China Association of Inventions in 2018.