Dr. Zhiqiang Wu is a lecturer at the State Key Laboratory of Rolling Mill Technology and Continuous Rolling Automation, at Northeastern University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical appliances from Shenyang University of Technology, a master’s degree in control theory and control engineering, and a Ph.D. in materials processing engineering from Northeastern University. His research direction is theoretical studies of automatic control, nonlinear system control, intelligent algorithms, material forming automation and intelligent rolling.