Zhong Shengyi is a dual-appointed professor at the Paris Elite Engineer School and the School of Material Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a PhD supervisor, chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program, a distinguished professor of the Shanghai Oriental Scholars Program, and deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Neutron Science and Technology. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the School of Materials at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2007 and obtained her PhD in nuclear technology from the French Atomic Energy Commission - Paris 11 University (joint training) in 2012. Her main research direction is neutron scattering material characterization technology. She leads the independent design and construction of the "He Tu" neutron diffraction engineering stress spectrometer and the "Luo Shu" neutron small-angle scattering spectrometer. She has hosted numerous scientific research projects, including a National Key R&D Program project, three National Natural Science Foundation projects, and over ten other research projects such as the Aviation Science Fund. She has published more than 50 SCI journal papers in academic journals such as Acta Materialia and the International Journal of Plasticity, applied for over 20 invention patents, written 2 national standards, and edited 3 undergraduate textbooks. She won the Shanghai Teaching Achievement First Prize in both 2017 and 2022.