Professor Yuntian Zhu received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. He joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor in 2020, before which he was a Distinguished Professor in North Carolina State University, where he worked from 2007 to 2020. He worked as a postdoc, staff member and team leader in Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1994 to 2007.

Dr. Yilu Zhao obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science at the City University of Hong Kong. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen since 2020.

Currently, Dr. Zhao’s research is working on the structures and properties of both ordered and disordered intermetallic material.