Dr. Yongliang Wang is currently a researcher in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Fine Exploration and Intelligent Development of Coal Resources, at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), and the head of Computational Mechanics Group. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2014. In 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019, he successively visited the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at Swansea University, UK, the Applied and Computational Mechanics Center at Cardiff University, UK, and the Rockfield Software Ltd, UK, to carry out cooperative research. In 2022 and 2023, he visited the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, USA, as a visiting scholar.