Professor Aibing Yu specialized in process metallurgy, obtaining BEng in 1982 and MEng in 1985 from Northeastern University, China, PhD in 1990 from University of Wollongong and DSc in 2007 from the University of New South Wales, Australia. After over 35 years as an academic with the University of New South Wales (1992-2014) and Monash University (2014-2015), he is currently Distinguished Professor and Director of Smart Process Engineering, Great Bay University (2015-), and Director of JITRI Research Institute of Process Modelling and Control (2016-). He is a world-leading scientist in particle/powder technology and process engineering. He has authored/co-authored >1,300 publications (including >900 collected in the ISI Web of Science), delivered many invited plenary/keynote presentations at various international conferences, and graduated >50 postdoc fellows and >150 PhD students. He is Executive Editor of Powder Technology, Regional Editor of Granular Matter, and on the editorial board of ~20 learned journals. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. He was elected to Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2004, and Australian Academy of Science in 2011, and Foreign Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.