Dr. Jinyang Xu is an associate professor and a doctoral supervisor of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was awarded the Shanghai Pujiang Scholar by the Shanghai Municipality in 2017. He received his M.Sc. (2013) in Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and the Ph.D. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering & Materials from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. His research interests focus on composites machining, numerical modeling, micro/nano cutting, and surface texturing. He is now serving as an associate editor of Simulation - Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (indexed by SCIE/EI). He is also on the editorial board of several JCR-ranked journals, including Green Materials, International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, etc. Moreover, Dr. Xu is also serving as a regular reviewer for over 40 international journals indexed by SCIE/EI, such as IJMTM, JMPT, IJAMT, etc. He has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speaker, Section Chair, and TPC member for a number of international conferences with themes in materials science and manufacturing processes. For his notable research in the field of Materials Processing & Manufacturing, he was honored with the IAAM Scientist Medal of the year 2020, and received the Best Paper Awards at the CJUMP2017 and the ISGMA2015 conferences.​