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Prof. Sheldon Wang

Midwestern State University, USA

Title: Inversed Optimization Method for Complex Engineering Systems Based on Experimental Data

Dr. Sheldon (Xiaodong) Wang is a tenured Full Professor at McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University (MSU), a Member of the Texas Tech University System. He received his B.S. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (1988) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and his M.S. in Ocean Engineering (1993) and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics (1995) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he has worked in the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (currently, Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech), Polytechnic University (currently, Tandon School of Engineering at New York University), and Department of Mathematical Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as a faculty member before joining MSU in 2009 as the Chair and Professor of McCoy School of Engineering. Dr. Wang’s research interests include computational fluid and solid mechanics, fluid-solid interactions, and quantitative modeling of complex dynamical systems. Prof. Wang is the author of around 50 journal papers. He is also the author of the research monograph “Fundamentals of Fluid-Solid Interactions – Analytical and Computational Approaches” published by Elsevier Science in 2008, the textbook “Essential Mathematical Tools for Engineers” published by Sentia Publishing in 2022, and the research monograph “Immersed Methods for Coupled Continua” (jointly with Prof. Lucy Zhang) published by World Scientific Publishing in 2023. According to ResearchID/ISI Web of Science, Dr. Wang (ResearchID C-4915-2008) has an average of over 35 citations per journal article and an h-index of 17. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Wang has a total citation of around 3100 with an h-index of 25 and an i10-index of 34. He has served as a reviewer and editorial board member for the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy, MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, World Congress of Computational Mechanics, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, and International Conference on Computational Structures Technology along with many technical journals. Dr. Wang was selected by Polytechnic University as one of the five founding Othmer Junior Faculty Fellows from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Wang was the recipient of awards from the US Air Force Summer Fellowship Program in 2008 and 2009 and the National Science Foundation Summer Institutes Fellowship Program from 2003 to 2012. Dr. Wang served as the Chair of McCoy School of Engineering from 2009 to 2015. He received Award of Appreciation and Certificate of Appreciation from the Commissioner of Higher Education in Texas, Raymund Paredes in 2011 and 2013 for his leadership role as the Mechanical Engineering Committee Chair in the Tuning Oversight Council of Engineering for Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 2011 and 2012. Dr. Wang served as the Director of MSU YES camps from 2010 to 2019. Dr. Wang has been serving as the treasurer of the MIT Club of Dallas/Ft. Worth since 2013. Dr. Wang passed FE (Mechanical Engineering) and PE (Thermal and Fluids Systems) exams in 2013 and 2017 and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Texas. In 2023, Dr. Wang was elected as a Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Prof. Shyy Woei Chang

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Title: Internal cooling performance improvement of a gas turbine rotor blade with radial and axial flow modes

Shyy Woei Chang is a Distinguished Professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan since 2021. He was invited to be a Professor in the Department of Systems and Naval Mechatronic Engineering in 2017. He has served as Dean of College of Marine Transportation and Management (2002-2003), Dean of Academic Affairs (2003-2004, 2013-2017), Dean of Research and Development Office (2004-2007) and Vice President (2016-2017) for National Kaohsiung Marine University. He is now the President of Taiwan Water Supply and Drainage Society and the Chairman of TAF Testing Laboratory 0895 for the performance test of oil interceptor and drainage equipment since 2003. He received his B.Eng. (First class) in 1992, Ph.D. in 1995 and D.sc. in 2010 from University of Wales, Swansea, UK. During his Ph.D. study, he was awarded by the Overseas Research Scholarship from British Council, UK (1992-1995). His main research interests are experimental heat transfer, heat transfer enhancements in general, gas turbine blade cooling, rotating flow and heat transfer, reciprocating/pulsating flow and heat transfer, cooling of electronic chipsets, cooling of electrical motor, thermosyphon and heat pipe, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and thermal fluid phenomena in ocean motions. He has published more than 150 SCI papers and received the Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 2019. Current h index is 29.

Prof. Kunpeng Zhu

Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, CAS, China

Title: Will update soon

Kunpeng Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2007. He was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow with the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is currently a Professor and the Director of the Precision Manufacturing Laboratory with the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changzhou, China. His current research interests include precision machining, additive manufacturing, and automation. In these areas, he has published in refereed journals and contributed to books. Dr. Zhu is the Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He is a recipient of the awards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation of China, and the Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Plan, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr. Chenlin Li

Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Republic of China

Title: Will be updated soon

Dr. Chenlin Li is an associate professor at School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China. He received Ph.D. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Xi 'an Jiaotong University (2021). He mainly contributes to coupled multi-field mechanics under extreme thermal environment, including: (i) Constitutive modeling; (ii) Mechanics of materials; (iii) Computational mechanics; (iv) Coupled multi-field mechanics at micro/nanoscale; (v) Heat and mass transfer at micro/nanoscale; (vi) Structural dynamic responses analysis. My scientific research achievements have been published on the well-known international journals of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (Q1), Composite Structures (Q1), Applied Mathematical Modelling (Q1), and European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids (Q1), and I have published 29 SCI papers as first author

Prof. Wenbo Peng

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Title: Piezo-Phototronic Effect in Multi-Layer Structured Optoelectronic: Bilateral Piezoelectric Charge Modulation

Dr. Wenbo Peng is now an Associate Professor at School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in major of Electronic Science and Technology at 2016 and bachelor degree in major of Microelectronics at 2010, from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has been a visiting scholar in School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology from Aug 2014 to Jul 2016, working on the research fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang.

His research interests mainly focus on advanced low dimensional piezoelectric semiconductor materials, devices and physics, and novel intelligent sensing integrated chips. He has received several fundings from NSFC, Shaanxi Province and companies. He has authored and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal publications in related research fields, parts of which are published on high quality international journals, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, etc. His publications have been cited over 2400 times, as documented at Google Scholar (h-index: 26). He has given several Keynote/Distinguished/Invited Talks in renowned international conferences. He is the Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials.

Prof. Wenquan Cao

Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, China

Title: Will update soon

Wenquan Cao is currently at Central Iron and Steel Research Institute of China since 2008. He was nominated to be a Professor in 2012 and Leading scientist and group leader in the direction of bearing steel in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Tsinghua University and then worked in Korea, France and Australia totally 5 years as postdoc research fellow. His main research interests are the design and understanding on the relationship between chemical composition design, processing, microstructure, mechanical properties and application of the metallic materials, such as the ultrafine grained metallic materials, the high strength and high ductility automobile steel, the long-life bearing steel, the high-nitrogen martensitic steel and the high strength low-density steel, etal. He has published more than 100 SCI papers and received 1 second national award on the automobile steel research and 4 other first industry awards in recent 10 years. Current h index is 34.

Prof. Helmi Attia

McGill University, Canada

Title: Process and Design Considerations for Control of Surface Integrity of Aerospace Structures

Helmi Attia is a Principal Research Officer, and former Manager of Advanced Material Removal Processes, Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Centre, National Research Council Canada (NRC). Before joining the NRC in 2002, he was a Principal Research Engineer at Ontario Hydro Research Division (1980-2002), and Manager of Fabrication Technology at Spar Aerospace Technology Ltd. (1979-80). He is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University since 2002, and Adjunct Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He held also Adjunct Professorship with Concordia University (1981-1990) and McMaster University (1991-2002).

Helmi is professional engineer of Ontario since 1980. He is a Fellow of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), Fellow of the College International pour la Recherche en Productique (CIRP), and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the recipient of ‘Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal’ (2013), and the prestigious ‘ASME Blackall Machine Tools and Gage Award, (1989). He received numerous recognitions from ASME and ASTM for being the principal organizer and editor of symposia related to manufacturing and tribology. Helmi is on the editorial board of a number of international journals and was an Associate Editor of the ASME Transactions, Journal of Engineering for Industry (Metal cutting), 1990-1996.

Helmi Attia is recognized by his peers in the areas of machining, thermal deformation of machine tools and fretting wear/fatigue. To his credit, Helmi has authored/coauthored some 290 papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings, and some 125 technical research reports. He was also the principal editor of 6 ASME and ASTM books and bound volumes.

Prof. WEN Chih-Yung

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Title: Progress in hypersonic shock wave/boundary layer interactions over a compression ramp and a double cone

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Dr. Bin Wang

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Title: Advanced aerospace fuel pump study and expectation

Dr. Bin Wang received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Zhejiang University,Hangzhou, China, in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor of aerospace power control with the College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. Also, he is a researcher with the Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, China. His research interests include advanced fuel components and systems, actuation and control in aerospace engineering.

Prof. Xin Lin

Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Title: Evaporation mechanism and quality control of selective laser melting manufacturing for shape memory alloy

Xin Lin received the Ph.D. degree in manufacturing informatics from the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2017. She is currently a Professor with the School of Machinery and Automation, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Her research interests include advanced manufacturing process and automation, and in particular process monitoring in additive manufacturing.

Prof. Klaus Mecking

Westphalian University of Applied Science, Germany

Title: Topology Optimization of Three-Dimensional Structures Considering Realistic Milling Tools and a Minimal Wall-Thickness as Constraints

Klaus Mecking has been acting as Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences since 2009. He completed his doctorate in the field of numerical fracture mechanics at RWTH Aachen University and was awarded the Borchers Badge for his thesis, which he passes „With Distinction". He then worked for many years in various positions in industrial research and development in the field of turbomachinery and tunnel boring machines. In both industrial and university research, his field of interest lies in the numerical simulation of mechanical structures with a strong reference to practical application. He is currently conducting research in the field of topology optimization taking into account manufacturing processes

Dr. Haithem Taha

USA

Title: A Variational Theory of Aerodynamics

Haithem Taha is currently an associate professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received a PhD degree from the Engineering Mechanics department at Virginia Tech simultaneously with an MSc degree in Mathematics. Taha’s research interests span geometric nonlinear control theory, unsteady aerodynamics, theoretical mechanics and variational principles with applications to unconventional flight mechanics such as bio-inspired flight. He is a Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award among several other awards. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow. Taha is particularly interested in the history and philosophy of mechanics and has several lectures on the topic

Prof. Xiaoming Wang

Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Title: Convection in a Fluid Layer Overlaying a Porous Layer

Dr. Wang received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Fudan University, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Indiana University – Bloomington. He completed his postdoctoral training as a postdoctoral fellow/Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute. Prior to joining Missouri S&T as the inaugural Havener Endowed Chair in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dr. Wang held tenured positions at Southern University of Science and Technology as a Chair Professor, Fudan University as a Distinguished Professor, Florida State University as a Full Professor, and Iowa State University as an Associate Professor. He also held long-term positions at the Insitute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, the Courant Institute in New York, and other fine institutions. Throughout his career, he also gained administrative experience, serving as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at both Florida State University and the Southern University of Science and Technology

Prof. Ruxandra Mihaela Botez

ÉTS Higher Technology School, Canada

Title: Morphing Technologies for Green Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Systems Development

Dr Ruxandra Botez has finalized her Master’s in Engineering in Bucharest, Romania at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in 1984, her Master’s in Applied Sciences in Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada in 1989 and her PhD in McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1994. She worked at the ICA-Brasov Factory of Helicopters Puma and Alouette helicopters development in Romania (1984-1987) and at Bombardier Aerospace in Aircraft Engineering in Montreal as AeroServoElasticity task leader during 1995-1997. She worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University during 1994-1995. She works as Full Professor at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), part of the Quebec University in Montreal, Canada since 1998. Ruxandra is the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011, and she is the Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE since 2003. Ruxandra is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute (CASI), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and many other organizations. Ruxandra is the Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin and Associate Editor of 10 other journals including the Aeronautical Journal. Ruxandra graduated more than 460 students in her academic career, who worked on her research projects: 24 PhD students, 140 Master’s students (projects and theses) and 300 Internship students. Ruxandra published more than 200 archival original journal articles, 320 conference papers and 7 invited book chapters. Ruxandra and her team have obtained more than 70 awards; she also gave more than 50 invited speaker presentations. Ruxandra’s projects were and are realized in collaboration with international teams from Bombardier, CAE, CMC Electronics, Bell Helicopter Textron, Thales Aerospace, GlobVision, FLIR Systems, IAR-NRC, Presagis and NASA, Alenia and CIRA, Hydra Technologies, DLR, INCAS and other.

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