Frank Cheng
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Y. Frank Cheng, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)
(ORCID: 0000-0002-3379-1828)
Frank Cheng serves as a research fellow and chief scientist at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a tenured professor at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair in Pipeline Engineering. He is recognised as an international leader in pipeline corrosion and integrity management research. Throughout his career, he has published 4 books and 300 journal papers, which have amassed over 11,600 citations and have gained him an H-index of 66. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Canadian Distinguished Materials Scientist Award, Metal Chemistry Award of Canadian Metallurgical and Materials Society, H.H. Uhlig Award and Technical Achievement Award of NACE, and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) Medal. He was elected to the board of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering in 2017, and is serving as the Chair of Technical Committee in Materials Technology. He obtained a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2000.