Dr. Muhammad Abubaker Khan received his Master of Engineering in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the College of Engineering and Emerging Technology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He did his post-doctorate at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. China. Dr Abubaker has over 60 publications in well-reputed peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of several book and has been awarded various national and international honours and awards. He is currently a regular reviewer for over 10 journals. Dr Abubaker serves as guest editor for several journals. His research focuses on designing and developing lightweight high entropy alloys for aerospace applications. Dr Mohamed Afifi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Benha university- Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra-Cairo Egypt. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and was then a research fellow at Brunel University in the UK until July 2022. Dr Afifi is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical engineering program at the faculty of engineering and applied sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt. His research focuses on designing and developing high mechanical performance lightweight materials. Dr. Jamieson Brechtl obtained his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2012. He later obtained his Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2019. Currently, he works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Multifunctional Equipment Integration Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests include plastic deformation, irradiation effects, nanoindentation, X-ray and neutron diffraction, microscopy, high-entropy alloys, and bulk-metallic glasses. He has authored or co-authored over thirty journal papers and presented at numerous engineering conferences. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise from the University of Tennessee in 2019. He is also a current member of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). Viswanathan S. Saji is an Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. His current research interest lies in electrochemistry and energy materials. Dr. Peter K. Liaw graduated from the Chiayi High School, obtained his B.S. in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, in 1980. After working at the Westinghouse Research and Development (R&D) Center for thirteen years, he joined the faculty and becomes an Endowed Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, since March 1993. He has been working in the areas of fatigue, fracture, nondestructive evaluation, and life-prediction methodologies of structural alloys and composites. Since joining UT, his research interests include mechanical behavior, high-entropy alloys, bulk-metallic glasses, nondestructive evaluation, biomaterials, and processing of high-temperature alloys and ceramic-matrix composites and coatings with the kind and great help of his colleagues at UT and the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as throughout the world. He has published over one-thousand journal papers, edited twenty books, and presented numerous plenary, keynote, and invited talks at various national and international conferences. He was awarded the Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University. He is a recipient of numerous “Outstanding Performance awards from the Westinghouse R&D Center. He was the Chairman of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) “Mechanical Metallurgy Committee, and the Chairman of the American Society for Metals (ASM) “Flow and Fracture Committee. He has been the Chairman and Member of the TMS Award Committee on “Application to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards. He is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS. He has been given the Outstanding Teacher Award, the Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, the Engineering Research Fellow Award, the National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Award, the L. R. Hesler Award, and the John Fisher Professorship at UT, and the TMS Distinguished Service Award. He has been the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program, the Director of the NSF International Materials Institutes (IMI) Program, and the Director of the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program at UT.
