Yu Cao received his Bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics from the Wuhan University of Science and Technology in 2021, and is now pursuing a Master's degree in solid mechanics. He studied at the Material Genome Engineering Research Institute of Shanghai University during the 2021–2024 academic years. While studying for a Master's degree at Shanghai University, he followed his tutor on a research project focusing on the strengthening and toughening mechanism of high-entropy alloys. His research topics mainly include: high-entropy alloys, interatomic potential, molecular dynamics, strengthening, and toughening.
Xiaoliang Zhang received his Bachelor's degree in 2023, and is now pursuing a Master's degree in solid mechanics. He will study at the Shanghai University during the 2023–2026 academic years. His research topics mainly include: high-entropy alloys, interatomic potential, molecular dynamics, strengthening, and toughening.
Daoxuan Zhou received his Bachelor's degree from the Chongqing University in 2022, and is now pursuing a Master's degree in solid mechanics. He will study at the Shanghai University during the 2022–2025 academic years. His research topics mainly include: diamonds, interatomic potential, molecular dynamics, aircrafts, finite element, strengthening, and toughening
Peng Wang received his Bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Zhejiang University in 2011 and his doctorate in solid mechanics in 2016. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Mechanics and Engineering, Shanghai University. His work on high-entropy alloys and diamonds has resulted in numerous academic papers, soft publications, and patents. In 2019, he was selected for the 2019 Shanghai Young Scientific and Technological Talents Sail Program. In 2020, he was selected for the fifth youth talent promotion project of the China Association for Science and Technology. And in 2020, he won the Guanshen Cai Outstanding Young Teacher Award of Shanghai University. His research interests include high-entropy alloys, diamonds, and aircraft design.
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.
Hongtao Wang currently serves as the executive director of the Interdisciplinary Mechanics Center of Zhejiang University. Their main research directions are flexible twin robots, deep power robots, artificial intelligence, cross-scale computing based on deep learning, and four-dimensional transmission electron microscopy.
