ORNL Distinguished Staff Member Zhili Feng will give the Comfort A. Adams Lecture to the American Welding Society in September. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Zhili Feng, group leader for materials joining in the Physical Sciences Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was recently selected to give the Comfort A. Adams Lecture for the American Welding Society, or AWS.
The award, named after the founder and first president of AWS, honors a career of research and is presented to an outstanding scientist or engineer whose lecture will present some new and distinctive development in the field of welding. AWS was founded in 1919 as a nonprofit organization to “advance the science, technology and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes worldwide.”
Feng joined ORNL in 2003 as a senior researcher and was named a distinguished staff member in 2013. He currently holds a joint appointment with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and specializes in materials joining and associated materials manufacturing processes.
Feng earned his doctorate from The Ohio State University, following master’s and bachelor's degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Feng will receive the award and present the Adams Lecture in September at the 2025 AWS FABTECH show in Chicago.
– Greg Cunningham
