Professor Liang Tian, doctoral supervisor, young talent class A of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Bachelor graduated from Central South University in 2010 with a major in materials science and engineering (extracurricular activities won the first prize of Hunan Province College Students for Math/Physics Competition respectively); master graduated in 2011 majored in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University in the United States; master graduated in 2012 majored in Engineering Mechanics (mathematics minor) at Iowa State University, and Ph.D graduated in 2015 majored in Materials Science and Engineering from Iowa State University/Ames National Laboratory (Supervisor: Professor Alan Russell (collaborator of Dan Shechtman--2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Professor Iver Anderson (Member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, member of the board of directors and fellow of TMS---the most authoritative international organization for metallic materials (total number of people around the globe is around 100, only 2 people in China) and 4 other fellows of international academic organizations related to metallic materials).





