Zhang Siliang is a professor and a doctoral supervisor in East China University of Science and Technology, director of National Engineering Research Center for Biotechnology (Shanghai), and a senior expert of the national fermentation engineering. He had served successively as the deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Director of the Biochemical Engineering Research Institute and Assistant Dean of the School of Biotechnology, He is concurrently the Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology, Member of Model and Control Branch of Chinese Society for Microbiology, and Member of Shanghai Society of Microbiology.

He has been studying microbial reaction and fermentation engineering for a long time and made major breakthroughs on the studies of the national major fermented products such as penicillin, erythromycin, cephalosporin C, inosine and guanosine, etc. He put forward multi-scale optimization methods of microorganisms. invented devices that are specially used for optimization and enlarged study of the biological reaction process. He went deep into many research works on the large-scale cultivation of animal and plant cells, enzyme catalysis of chiral compounds and marine biochemical engineering, etc.

From 1997 till now, he won the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress four times, and won the provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards more than ten times, and made a great contribution to the technological progress of many national industries like biological medicine. He has compiled Detection and Controlling of Biochemical Engineering Parameters, Introduction to Fermentation Engineering Control. Principle, Use and Maintenance of the Measurement and Control of PH Dissolved Oxygen in Fermentation Process, and published more than 80 academic papers like "Technical Study on Multilevel Problems in Fermentation Process and the Bioreactor Devic".