Prof. Lifeng Zhang

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Lifeng Zhang, professor and president of North China University of Technology. He is the distinguished professor of “Changjiang Scholars" of the ministry of education China, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the national “ten thousand people plan” innovation leading talent, young and middle-aged leading talent in science and technology innovation of the ministry of science and technology China, the leader of National Huang Danian-style teaching teams of the Ministry of Education. His main research fields are high-quality steel, non-metallic inclusions in steel, simulation of transfer phenomena in metallurgical process. He successively presided over more than 70 scientific research projects, including national, provincial projects and National Defense Science and Technology Project. The total amount of scientific research funds is more than 100 million yuan. At present, over 400 papers retrieved by SCI or EI and three monographs have been published,. Besides, 3 international patent, 40 Chinese patents and 10 software patents have been obtained. He has won many awards, such as Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award Youth Award, Wei Shoukun Metallurgical Youth Award, AISI Richard J. Fruehan Award, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Royal Academy of Engineering, etc.

Prof. Yanping Bao

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Prof. Yanping Bao is currently a professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is also the academic leader in the steelmaking direction of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy. He leads a research group that specializes in the production technology of clean steel and inclusion control, reduction control technology of steel alloy, gradient utilization technology of steelmaking slag and advanced technology of continuous casting. He also serves as the chief editor of the Journal of Continuous Casting, and is an editorial board member of many academic journals, such as IJMMM, etc. Prof. Bao has made co-authored over 80 patents and 500 publications in the steelmaking field and edited 8 books. Prof. Bao won the National Science and Technology Progress for 1 time and Metallurgical Science and Technology Progress Award for 10 times. In 2012, he also won the "Willy Korf Outstanding Education Award" set by the United States and Germany Joint Fund Committee.

Prof. Jianhua Liu

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Prof. Jianhua Liu is the director of Center of Low Carbon Metallurgy (CLCM) in the institute of Engineering Technology of USTB, and he serves as a member of Metallurgical Solid Waste Comprehensive Utilization Committee of China Metallurgical Society. He has been a visiting scholar in McGill University, Latrobe University, RWTH Aachen University, and the University of Leoben. He leads a research group that specializes in bubble metallurgy, intelligent steelmaking, and hydrogen application in steelmaking, and he has undertaken nearly 50 projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research group has successfully developed a series of technologies for inclusion removal with fine bubbles, such as nitrogen elevating and reducing method (NERM), argon injection at ladle shroud (AILS), argon injection at the down-leg snorkel with RH (AIDSRH), etc., in which fine bubbles have been successfully picked up in molten steel by the innovative methods of cold steel sheet sampling and rapid solidification, respectively. The relevant studies have promoted the rapid development of bubble metallurgy. Recently, he is committed to the technical development of hydrogen application in steelmaking and refining, which will be helpful to carbon reduction in steelmaking process. He has granted around 30 patents and published around 300 technical articles.

Prof. Miaoyong Zhu