(1) Materials Informatics
(2) Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)
(3) Integrated & Robust Design of Multiscale, Multifunctional Materials

2012/12-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Associate Professor;
2012/10-2012/12: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Research Assistant Professor;
2010/08-2012/10: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Postdoctoral Researcher;
2006/09-2010/01: Queen Mary, University of London, UK, PhD student;
2003/09-2006/06: Queen Mary, University of London, UK,  Master's student;
2000/09-2003/07: Zhejiang University of Science, China, Undergraduate Student;

(1) Jianlong Xu, Shiyu Du, Yiming Zhang*. The molecular dynamic studies of thermal conductivity of SiC ceramic derived from β/α phase transformation, Sci. Rep. 15, 6432 (2025).
(2) Yiming Zhang*, Yongjia Xu, Qing Huang, Shiyu Du, Mian Li, Youbing Li, Zeyu Mao, Qi Han. Structure maps for MAX phases formability revisited, Ceram. Int. 50, 2855, (2024).
(3) Meiting Zhao, Erxiao Wu, Dongyang Li, Junfei Luo, Xin Zhang, Zhuquan Wang, Qing Huang, Shiyu Du, Yiming Zhang*. Development of a baseline model for MAX/MXene synthesis recipes extraction via pre-trained model with domain knowledge, J. Mater. Res. Technol. 22, 2262, (2023).