Professor Yuan, Feng obtained his Ph.D. from Hefei University of Technology, China. He is Professor and vice-dean of School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at the HFUT. He was selected for the “New Century Excellent Talents in University? funded by Ministry of Education of the PRC and selected as the vice chairman of the Big data and mathematical earth sciences committee under the Chinese society of mineral rock geochemistry.Professor Yuan’s research interests focus on the petrogenesis, metallogenesis and prospectivity modeling of the mineralization and is a member of the editorial board of Applied Earth Science. He has received a number of awards for his research, including Ministry of Land and Resources science and technology Award, China nonferrous metal industry science and technology award. As project leader, He carried out a number of projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Nature Science Foundation and so on.