Lei YANG is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2014, he received a Ph.D. degree in flight vehicle design from Beihang University, China. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His research interests involve the design of aircraft structures, mechanics of composite materials, and computational mechanics. He achieved the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology in 2017. Dr. Yang has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and taught the structural analysis course for 7 years. He is a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Composite Materials.