An Introduction to Materials Informatics: The Elements of Machine Learning

About Tongyi Zhang

Tongyi Zhang born in October 1949 in Zhengzhou China is Expert in the interdisciplinary area of materials science and engineering and solid mechanics. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 in materials physics from the University of Science and Technology Beijing China. He was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1986-1988 Germany; Postdoctoral Fellow 1988-1990 University of Rochester; and Associate Research Scientist 1990-1993 Yale University. From 1993 to 2015 he worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Lecturer Associate Professor Professor Chair Professor and Fang Professor of Engineering.  He is the founding dean of Materials Genome Institute Shanghai University and the founding director of the Materials Genome Engineering division in the Chinese Materials Research Society (CMRS). Currently he is doing his best to promote Materials Genome Engineering and Materials/Mechanics Informatics especially materials AI labs materials AI computations and materials large multimodal model.   He is the Vice President of the International Congress on Fracture the Honorary President of the Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection and was the Vice President of the Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Informatics and was the Editor-in-Chief of Science China Technological Sciences 2018-2022. He became Fellow of International Congress on Fracture in 2013 Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2012 Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 Senior Research Fellow of Croucher Foundation Hong Kong in 2003 Fellow of ASM International USA in 2001. He received the awards including the 2018 Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the HLHL Foundation the Second Prizes of 2007 and 1987 State Natural Science Award China and the 1988 National Award for Young Scientists China.