Xiaofei HU is an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a senior engineer at Schlumberger in Beijing for developing and maintaining a finite element program package “IDEAS”. From 2015 to 2017, he moved to the National University of Singapore and worked as a research fellow under the supervision of Professor Tong Earn Tay. His study in Singapore focused on the modelling of the progressive failure in composite laminates using the extended finite element method. From 2017 to now, Dr. Hu moved back to the Dalian University of Technology. So far, he has published more than 50 journal papers and 1 book. He taught the structural analysis course for 6 years​.