Zhang Bi, a Chair Professor, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Talent of the Pearl River Talent Program in Guangdong Province, Class A Talent of the Shenzhen Peacock Plan, Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). After obtaining his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988, he conducted postdoctoral research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Oklahoma State University in the United States respectively. Since 1992, he has been employed as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor at the University of Connecticut in the United States. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Director of Undergraduate Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, and from 2011 to 2013, he was the Director of the Manufacturing Discipline in the School of Management and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. From 2014 to 2017, he was a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, and the Leader of the Precision and Special Processing Team of the "Liaoning Collaborative Innovation Center for Major Equipment Manufacturing". Professor Zhang Bi has long focused on research in precision machining and ultra-high-speed machining technologies, and has achieved outstanding academic accomplishments in the efficient and high-quality precision machining of difficult-to-machine materials. The ultra-high-speed machining theory he proposed regarding "material embrittlement" and "damage skin effect" has been widely recognized internationally. He has published over 200 academic papers, applied for and been granted more than 40 patents in China and the United States, delivered over 100 plenary reports, keynote reports, and invited reports at international and domestic academic conferences, and undertaken more than 70 projects, including those from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, other federal agencies, the Connecticut state government, China's National 863 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and enterprise cooperation projects. He has been listed in Stanford University's global top 2% scientists' lifelong achievement list and annual list for consecutive years.