Furong Cao(F R Cao or F Cao), born on January 11,1964, got his Master Degree of metal processing in 1991 and got his Ph D degree of metal processing in 1999 at Northeastern University, Shenyang, PR China. He worked at Liaoning Electrolytic Capacitor Aluminum Foil Factory as a technician in 1984-1988. He is presently a researcher from January 1st, 2021 on, and had been an associate professor from 2001 till 2020 at Northeastern University, PR China. His key research direction is processing, microstructure, mechanical properties and deformation mechanism related to severe plastic deformation, superplasticity and continuous casting-extrusion of nonferrous metals, strengthening and toughening, especially Mg-Li alloys and Al-Mg alloys. He, together with his colleagues, has published 134 articles among which 46 are indexed by SCI and 75 are indexed by Ei Compendex. As the first author, he has published 68 articles among which 30 are SCI-indexed articles. His monograph, Superplasticity of Metals, was published in 2014. He took part in 15 projects among which 6 are NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) projects, 1 is National High-Tech Fundamental Programme (973 project), 1 is provincial-level project and 7 are enterprise-related R& D projects.