Professor Alan Kin-tak Lau received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Engineering and Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University, Australia) in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Within that period, he also worked for General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd., Australia, as a trainee engineer, and for the Corporative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS) Australia, as a Research Assistant designing a repair scheme for composite preforms. Afterwards, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2001. Thereafter, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2002, promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2005 and 2010. In 2015, he was appointed as Alex Wong/Gigi Wong Professor in Product Design Engineering and Associate Dean (Industrial Relation) in the Faculty of Engineering, PolyU. Currently, he is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance and Development) of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.