Dr. Yaoyao Fiona Zhao is an Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar, and Ram Panda Faculty Scholar in Sustainable Engineering & Design at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Zhao’s lab – the Additive Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (ADML) – is one of the leading research laboratories in additive manufacturing and sustainable manufacturing field. Her research expertise lies in the general field of design and manufacturing including the exploration of new design methods, developing efficient numerical simulation method for additive manufacturing processes, manufacturing informatics, application of machine learning in design and manufacturing, sustainable product development and intelligent manufacturing. Dr. Zhao is currently the associate editor for the Journal of Mechanical Design and a member of the editorial board of Virtual and Physical Prototyping. She has received multiple Best/Outstanding paper awards in major design and manufacturing journals and conferences. Other major awards she received include the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Accelerator Supplement award in 2018, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design “Associate Editor Award” in 2019 and 2020