Zhengliang Xue is currently a professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. His research interest includes steel cleanness, special steel and recycling of solid waste. He is currently a member of the Bearing Steel Academic Committee of the Special Steel Branch of the Chinese Society of Metals, a member of the Steel Quality and Nonmetallic Inclusion Control Professional Committee of the Steelmaking Branch of the Chinese Society of Metals, and a winner of the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award. He studied his PhD at metallurgical engineering in Iron and Steel Research Institute of China and then did a postdoctoral at the Materials Science and Engineering. He has successively completed some projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, "973" project and "863" project. He has published three academic books, and more than 150 academic papers in domestic and foreign academic journals got more than 10 invention patents.