Prof. Xuebin Zheng was born in Zhejiang Province of China in 1971. He received his Bachelor degree of Chemistry in 1992 from Fudan University and obtained Ph.D. degree of Material Science in 2000 from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science (SICCAS). He was appointed as assistant professor (2000) and associate professor (2002) in SICCAS. Now he is a professor and the director of Research Group of Plasma Sprayed Coatings. His current major research interests are biomedical coatings and protective coatings. Bioactivity, biocompatibility, osseointegration as well as antibacterial effect of the coating materials are carried out in his group. More than 200 scientific papers have been published in the scientific journals including Biomaterials, Acta Biomaterialia, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Surface & Coatings Technology, etc. by his research group. Besides basic research, he cooperates with the companies of orthopedic implants for the development of better human medical products. His group successfully applies vacuum plasma spray (VPS) technology to manufacture porous Ti coating and bioactive HA coating on orthopedic implants. More than 300,000 bone substitutes (artificial hip joints, spinal implants, etc.) with VPS Ti coating or/and HA coating have been manufactured and applied clinically in these years.

Professor Xinkun Suo is a Ph.D. supervisor, a First-Tier Leading Talent of Ningbo City, and an A-Level Academic Leader at Ningbo University. He serves as Director of the Institute of Multidimensional Additive Manufacturing, a member of the Metallurgical Mechanical and Electrical Standardization Committee of the China Iron and Steel Association, a council member of the Zhejiang Engineers Society, and an expert of the Zhejiang Automotive Engineering Professional Qualification Evaluation Committee. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Materials Protection and a Young Editorial Board Member of Rare Metals. In recent years, Professor Suo has received the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award. He has led more than ten national and provincial-level research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Zhejiang Provincial Key Research and Development Program. He has published over 50 SCI-indexed papers, been granted more than 20 invention patents, and contributed to the development of one local standard and two industry standards. Leading his research team, Professor Suo has carried out extensive research in the fields of advanced materials development, two-dimensional coatings, and three-dimensional printing. Many of the resulting technological achievements have been successfully applied in sectors such as new energy and related industries.

Professor James Tsoi is an Assistant Dean (Innovation), Director of Global Hub for Future Dentistry and Associate Professor in Dental Materials Science at HKU Faculty of Dentistry. He received BSc in Applied and Analytical Chemistry and PhD in Dental Materials Science, from the University of Hong Kong. He also holds the Memberships of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and British Computer Society (MBCS), and Fellow in Advanced HE (FHEA). James is actively engaged in a number of research areas including: Dental materials science (mechanical behaviours, surface/bonding and ceramics), AI+ in dentistry (smart manufacturing, digital dentistry, CAD/CAM and 3D printing) and dental education (basic science and e-learning). He has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed journal articles, published and granted 10 patents, graduated 44 MSc and 14 PhDs, and been awarded 8 times internationally since he joined HKU Dentistry as a faculty member in 2012. He is currently serving several SCI journals’ editorial board (including Dental Materials), being President in IADR-Dental Materials Group, Member-at-large in the Academy of Dental Materials, Committee Member of Guangdong Province Medical Device Standardization Technical Committee (GD/TC 16), and Hong Kong head-of-delegate in ISO/TC 106 (Dentistry).

Heping Li is a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a recipient of a national-level young talent award. Her research focuses primarily on ceramic coatings and thin films for hydrogen permeation protection and ultra-high-temperature thermal protection. She has led two Young Scientist Projects under the National Key R&D Program of China, as well as projects supported by national defense research funds and the Original Exploration and General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published more than 50 SCI-indexed papers and holds more than 10 granted Chinese invention patents. She has been named among Elsevier’s “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” and appointed as a Huazhong Scholar Distinguished Professor. She serves as a council member of the Chinese Ceramic Society and its Special Ceramics Branch, and as a member of several academic bodies, including the Youth Committee of the Chinese Ceramic Society. She also serves on the editorial boards of several SCI-indexed journals and has delivered 18 plenary or invited presentations at academic conferences in China and abroad.

Professor and doctoral supervisor, with primary research interests in cultural heritage conservation, biological deterioration of cultural relics, and the application of biotechnology in heritage preservation. Research focuses on biological damage to both organic and inorganic cultural artifacts, mechanisms of biological corrosion, and ultimately aims to achieve effective conservation and preventive protection of significant cultural relics.

Liang Wang, PhD, is a Professor, doctoral supervisor, and postdoctoral co-supervisor. He leads research in macroscale finite element modeling, artificial intelligence, and experimental characterization in the Research Division of artificial Intelligent for Ceramic Materials at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), where he heads an independent research group as principal investigator (PI). He has been selected as a member of the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, for the inaugural cohort of SICCAS's Outstanding Young Researchers Support Program, and as a specially appointed key research scientist of CAS. He is a member of ASM International; has served on the first and second Young Editorial Boards of the Journal of Inorganic Materials; and serves on the Young Editorial Boards of the Journal of Aeronautical Materials and the Journal of Materials Engineering, the Editorial Board of Materials Protection, the Thermal Protection Materials Committee of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, and the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Non-Metallic Mineral Resources in Southern Henan. He also mentors through the expert advisory panel of the Shanghai Youth Science Society. His recent research integrates macroscale finite element modeling, artificial intelligence (conventional machine learning and deep learning), and experimental characterization for the structural design, performance optimization, and prediction of in-service performance of specialized high-temperature thermal protection coatings, ceramic- and polymer-matrix composites, structural ceramics, and functional devices. He has led or is leading five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), including a seed project under a Major Research Plan, an NSAF Joint Fund project, and two General Program projects. His portfolio of more than 20 government- and industry-funded projects also includes three Shanghai Natural Science Foundation projects, the HY Action Plan, two GF basic research projects, one projec