Prof. Zhongyu Piao is currently Vice Dean and a Ph.D. supervisor at College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology. Prof. Piao has been selected as a member of Zhejiang Province Ten Thousand Talents Program, Zhejiang Province Leading Talent Training Program for Universities, and Zhejiang Province Young and Middle-aged Discipline Leader in Universities. His main research field is surface manufacturing and tribology. Prof. Piao has hosted one Zhejiang Province Outstanding Youth Fund project, four National Natural Science Foundation projects (one joint fund key support project, two general projects, and one youth project), one Central Military Commission Equipment Development Department Equipment Pre-Research Fund project, three key projects/common technology sub projects, and three sub projects of the Central Military Commission Science and Technology Commission Basic Strengthening Project. He has published 46 SCI indexed papers as the first author/corresponding author, including one ESI hot topic paper and three ESI highly cited papers. He has been authorized 28 national invention patents as the first inventor and implemented five conversions. Prof. Piao has received the Second Prize of the Green Manufacturing Science and Technology Progress Award from the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering (R1/2018), Third Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Award (R1/2023), Second Prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Award (R4/2021), Second Prize of Land and Resources Science and Technology Progress Award (R7/2019), National Teaching Achievement First Prize (R3/2022), National Teaching Achievement Second Prize and First Prize of Zhejiang Province Teaching Achievement Award (R2/2021). Cong Ding is currently an associate professor at College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology. Cong Ding's research field is surface strengthening and engineering tribology. She has hosted one youth project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, one youth project of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, one project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, one project of the State Key Laboratory, and two key laboratory projects of Zhejiang Province. She has published 15 SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author, authorized four national invention patents as the first inventor, and one international patent. Wentao Hou is currently an associate professor at College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China. His research field is surface strengthening and dissimilar material joining. He has hosted one National Natural Science Foundation general project, participated in one joint fund key support project. He has published over 30 SCI indexed papers, including one highly cited ESI paper as the first author. Zhenyu Zhou is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology. His main research field is surface manufacturing, surface remanufacturing, and tribology. Dr. Zhou has hosted one National Natural Science Foundation project- youth project, and has contributed to over a decade of additional Foundation projects. He has published 9 SCI indexed papers as the first author/corresponding author, including one ESI highly cited paper. He has been authorized 22 national invention patents and implemented four conversions.
