Professor Ninshu MA received his doctoral degree in Engineering from Osaka University in 1994 and went on to work for 21 years as a professional consultant in the field of computer-aided engineering at Japan Research Institute (JRI). Now, he is working as a professor at JWRI. Therefore, he has a comprehensive viewpoint in both industry and academic fields. Furthermore, he is a leader of the Global and Industrial Collaborative Research Center for Computational Welding Science (CCWS) to establish a framework of the computational welding science with the rapid progress in computer technology to meet various demands from the industry. He has more than 300 international papers related to computational welding science.