Presentation title: Flash annealing of advanced high strength steels

Dr. Hao Chen is tenured associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his PhD degree with “Cum laude” at Delft University of Technology in 2013. He also spent a year as postdoctoral fellow at University of British Columbia, Canada in 2014. Dr Chen’s research ranges from thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations in steels, to the application of emerging technologies such as additive manufacturing, flash heating and advanced modeling techniques (including physics-based modeling and artificial intelligence) in steel research. He has published over 100 refereed papers in the well known journals. He also delivered ~30 invited talks in the area of phase transformations and advanced high strength steels.