**About the Editor**

**Steven Y. Liang**, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Currently, he is the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professor for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His technical interests lie in physics-based computational mechanics of predictive manufacturing processes. Prof. Liang served as President of the Walsin Lihwa Corporation (publicly traded), President of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI), and Chair of the Manufacturing Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (MED/ASME). He is currently serving as Technical Editor of the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (Springer) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (MDPI). Prof. Liang has published over 700 archival scientific articles and 5 books. Among his accolades, he has received the Robert B. Douglas Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Ralph R. Teetor Education Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award of the ASME, and the Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal of the ASME. Prof. Liang is also a fellow of the ASME, SME, and Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET).
