Jinsong Leng is a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.  He is a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Foreign Member  of Academia Europaean, Member of the European Academy of  Sciences and Arts. He is the dean of School of Future Technology,  Director of the Center for Smart Materials and Structures (CSMS), and  Director of International Center for Applied Mechanics at Harbin  Institute of Technology (HIT), China. His research fields include smart  materials and structures, sensors and actuators, stimulus-responsive  polymers (shape memory and electro-active polymers) and their  composites, multifunctional nanocomposites, 4D printing, space deployable structures, etc.  He currently serves as Vice President of the International Committee on Composite Materials  (ICCM), Vice President of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials (CSCM), Vice  President of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), and Editor-in-Chief of  the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials (IJSNM). He was elected as Fellow of  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Society of  Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Fellow of American Society of Mechanical  Engineers (ASME), Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), Fellow of Royal Aeronautical  Society (RAeS), Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IMMM) and  Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).