Faculty Profile

Yongxiang Leng received the B.S. degree in metal materials and heat treatment and the M.S. and  Ph.D. degrees in materials science from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu,  China, in 1994, 1997, and 2004, respectively. He is currently a Professor of  materials science and engineering with the School of Materials Science and  Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, where he is also with the Key  Laboratory for Advanced Technology of Materials, Ministry of Education. He has  written 3 book chapters and 100 journal papers. He is the holder of seven  Chinese patents. His research interests include plasma immersion ion  implantation, unbalanced magnetron sputtering, metal vacuum arc source,  fabrication and characterization of biomaterials, and surface modification for  mechanical engineering applications.