Mingheng Li is a professor of chemical engineering specializing in process systems engineering, with a focus on materials, energy, and environmental applications. He has pioneered innovations in the processing of low-emissivity and self-cleaning coatings and advanced non-conventional dynamic and cyclic reverse osmosis techniques. He has served as an editor for the American Institute of Physics Publishing.

Yi Heng obtained his Ph.D. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He is a professor of applied mathematics. His work focuses on inverse problems, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and their applications to various areas of science and engineering. He has served as an executive member of the editorial board for Science Bulletin.