XSXiao ShangPhD, P.Eng.
Service & outreach

Building communities around manufacturing and research

I edit and review for journals in my field, serve professional societies that connect academia and industry, have represented graduate students in university governance, and run a non-profit that helps early-career researchers find their way.

Editorial service & peer review

Serving the research community

Flyer for the Crystals Special Issue on Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloy Materials
Special Issue flyer (PDF). Click to open.
Guest Editor

Special Issue: Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloy Materials

Crystals (MDPI). Guest Editors: Dr. Xiao Shang and Dr. Joseph Agyapong (University of Guelph).

The Special Issue invites original research, perspectives and reviews on the frontiers of metal additive manufacturing, including:

  • alloy design and composition–microstructure evolution in AM-specific alloys;
  • functionally graded and multi-material structures;
  • external-field-assisted AM (magnetic, acoustic, electric and thermal fields);
  • in-situ monitoring and multiscale modelling of solidification;
  • post-processing, heat treatment and defect–property relationships.
Flyer Crystals journal

Reviewer for

Acta Materialia coverActa Materialia
Advanced Materials coverAdvanced Materials
Materials Research Letters coverMaterials Research Letters
Additive Manufacturing coverAdditive Manufacturing
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing coverInternational Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Professional service

2025 – present

Member, Additive Manufacturing and Solidification Committees

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Shape conference programs, panels and special topics.

2025 – present

Program Manager, SME Toronto Chapter 26

Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Organize technical seminars, networking events and outreach that link academia and industry.

With colleagues at the 154th TMS Annual Meeting, 2025
With colleagues at the 154th TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2025).
Presenting a poster on confined necking in heterostructured steels at TMS 2026
Presenting confined necking in heterostructured bi-metallic steels at the 155th TMS Annual Meeting (2026).

University service

2021 – 2022

President, Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Students' Association

University of Toronto. Represented graduate students at department, faculty and university councils.

Outreach

2020 – present

Organizer and Editor-in-Chief, The Martlets Society

A non-profit run by early-career researchers that hosts talks on research and career advice by researchers from leading universities. Our perspective on the initiative was published as a commentary in Matter (2021).

Open-source tools

I share code and tools so that others can build on our work.

Web app

CRediTor

A free tool that generates CRediT author-contribution statements for manuscripts.
Code · GitHub

AIDED

Inverse process optimization for laser directed energy deposition (Additive Manufacturing, 2025).
Code · GitHub

MsInverseDesign

Deep learning and genetic algorithm inverse design of 3D microstructures (Materials Today, 2023).

Media coverage

Memberships & licence

  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
  • The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)