Dr. Xiaogang Zuo, Ph.D., has a position as an engineer and is currently working at the State Key Laboratory of New Technology in Iron and Steel Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. His research direction is mainly the surface composition and structure analysis of metal materials. He is mainly engaged in the characterization and analytical testing of the microstructure and composition of metals and other materials. The large-scale instruments and equipment he is responsible for mainly include the following: focused ion beam-electron beam microscope (FIB-SEM), electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA), metal in situ analyzer (OPA), etc. He has published four articles in Chinese core journals and obtained one invention patent. He has served as a young editorial board member of the Metallurgical Analysis Journal since August 2022.

Prof. Zhimin Lv has a position as the chief of the materials testing and intelligent manufacturing team of the Collaborative Innovation Center for Common Steel Technologies and is currently working at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. He also serves as deputy director of the Steel Production and Manufacturing Execution System Technology Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education. He graduated from the Hebei Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1992, from the Hebei University of Technology with a master's degree in 1995, and from the University of Science and Technology Beijing with a doctorate in 1999. Now, he is mainly engaged in research on product quality modeling and industrial big data applications, production planning and scheduling theory, information platform technology, etc., and has rich experience in scientific research and engineering practice. He has won one second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award and seven provincial and ministerial scientific research awards (including one special prize and four first prizes).