Presentation title: Prediction on the Three Dimensional Spatial Distribution of the Number Density, Size and Composition of Non-metallic Inclusions in Steel Continuous Casting Products

Lifeng Zhang is a professor and the President with North China University of Technology. He was a Professor and the Vice President of Yanshan University from 2019 to 2022, professor and the Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering with the University of Science and Technology Beijing from 2012 to 2019. He served as professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2007, assistant professor and associate professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2007 to 2011. Lifeng was a research associate and research scientist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2001-2005. He pursued his post-doctoral studies at Tohoku University financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and at the Institute of Metallurgy, Technical University of Clausthal (Germany) from 1998 to 2001. Lifeng’s research mainly focuses on clean steel and inclusions and modeling of process metallurgy. He has published over 500 academic papers and been awarded over 40 patents and 10 patents in software, has been invited to talk at over 300 international academic assemblies. Lifeng is serving as the editorial board member for over 10 journals and he has been invited to review papers for over 130 international journals.

Lifeng received numerous awards, including the Youth Prize of China Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, six 1st Class Prize of Provincial and ministerial science and technology awards Award; Richard J. Fruehan Award from Association for Iron & Steel Technology, USA; Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.