Prof. Xiaoqi Chen received his PhD from University of Liverpool in 1989. He is the Dean of Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT). Prior to joining SCUT, he was Deputy Director of Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology (2019-2022); Director of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Canterbury (2006-2019); Senior Scientist, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (1992-2006). His research focuses on advanced materials processing, robotics, and autonomous systems. Dr. Ze Chai co-supervised postgraduate research as a postdoctoral fellow during this book's preparation. He served as an Assistant Researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Currently he is Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Tongji University. His research focuses on the advanced manufacturing of high-performance materials, and physical and chemical mechanisms of multi-scale structural evolution. Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhang received his doctoral degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is currently employed at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His primary research interests lie in the fields of additive manufacturing, laser cladding and welding for high-performance alloys, as well as the investigation of gradient materials and material strengthening and toughening mechanisms.