Chaolin Tan is a Distinguished Professor at Soochow University, he was a Senior Scientist and Doctoral Supervisor at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A*STAR Research Entities during 2020 to 2025. He served as an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Birmingham and Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Technology in 2019. He was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Overseas) and Provincial Distinguished Professor (Jiangsu) in 2024. He is a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) and recognized in the World's Top 2% Scientist Ranking in 2022-2024. He is on Editorial Board of flagship journal Int. J. Mach. Tools Manuf. (IF 14) and the Youth Editor of The Innovations (IF 33.2), Int. J. Extreme Manuf. (IF 16.1), J. Mater. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.2), Rare Metals (IF 9.6), etc. He has contributed more than 40 SCI papers as the First and Corresponding Authors and 2 books, including 20 papers in flagship journals (e.g., Advanced Science) with an impact factor higher than 10, and 7 ESI highly cited and hot papers. Google Scholar citations over 4,500 times and H-index 37. His research experience in Additive Manufacturing is over 10 years, with research interests in materials innovation, machine learning and heterostructured materials around LAM and energy-field assisted additive manufacturing.