Dr. Frank Cheng is a Professor and Canada Research Chairin Pipeline Engineering at the University of Calgary. He is an internationally recognized authority in Corrosion Science and Engineeringof Oil/Gas andPipeline Systems. Frank’s research interests include three interrelated topics, i.e., pipeline corrosion and micro-/nano-electrochemical measurements,pipeline integrity management, and advanced materials and electrochemical nanotechnology.

Frank is the author of 2 books, 170journal papers and 75 conferenceproceedings, as well as 25 invited Plenary and Keynote talks in internationalconferences.The total citations of his publications are 5,535, with the H-index of 47.

Frank is serving the Chair of NACE Task Group 521 “Testing of Nonshielding Property of Pipeline Coatings to Cathodic Protection”, the Fellow member of NACE Task Force for Spotlight on Corrosion, the Treasurer of NACE Foundation of Canada, and the member of Review Panel of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Country (Canada) Leader of NACE International IMPACT Study Program, the Chair of NSERC Site Visit and Review Committee for Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Materials Corrosion at the University of Toronto, the member of Canadian Crude Transmission Pipeline Roadmap Project Steering Committee, and the member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Pipeline Transportation of Diluted Bitumen.

Frank is the recipient of the2017 Metal Chemistry Award of the Canadian Metallurgy and Materials Society, the 2017 Engineering Research Achievement Award of the University of Calgary, the 2015 Shi Changxu Award of the Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection, the 2014 H. H.Uhlig Award of NACE International the Corrosion Society, the 2009 Research Excellence Award of Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He was an elected Fellow of NACE International in 2016.

Frank earned a PhD in Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta in 2000.