Xu Guo is a Changjiang Chair Professor at Dalian University of Technology (P.R. China), the Dean of the Department of Engineering Mechanics and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipment. He received his Ph.D. degree from Dalian University of Technology in 1998 and became the faculty member of the same university in 2000. He is now serving as a review editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and the Associate Editor of the Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters. His current research interests are focused on structural optimization and computational mechanics. He has more than 120 journal publications in the above areas. He is also the recipient of the National Award for Youth in Science and Technology (2011), the Intelligent Optimal Design Prize (2010), and the National Natural Science Prize of China (2006).