Current Chinese Engineering Science

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry (Cambridge University, 1968), has over 1,055 international publications including 210 books. He won the UNESCO Science Prize (1999) and was elected Fellow of Royal Society (London, 2006). He was conferred honorary doctorate degrees by many universities including Cambridge University and many others. Furthermore, Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was elected Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University, and the Austrian government honoured him with its high civil award “Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande" (2007). He is the only scientist from the Muslim world to be Foreign Fellow (“Academician”) of Chinese and Korean Academies of Sciences. The University of Technology Mara (UiTM), Malaysia, has established “Atta-ur-Rahman Institute of Natural Product Discovery” in his honour. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was the Federal Minister of Science and Technology of Pakistan, and he is Chairman of UN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation for UNESCAP region covering 62 countries.

Dr. Jiang received his BE (1995) and MS (1998) in in Thermal Science and Engineering from Chongqing University. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS in 2001, he worked for IMM GmbH (2002-2004, Germany), University of Aveiro (Portugal, 2004-2006), University of New Brunswick (Canada, November 2005), and the Pennsylvania State University (USA, 2006-2012). In October 2010 he began to work for Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, 22 invention patents, and 18 computational softwares.

Dr. L. Karthik is presently an Post Doctoral Scientist in ECUST, Shanghai, China under the guidance of eminent scientist Prof. Lixin Zhang. His interest, as a postdoctoral fellow at ECUST, is to develop the CRISPR/Cas12a assisted tools for metabolic engineering. He had published around 70 research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals He is Communication committee member of International chemical biology society. In 2016, he got Prestigious “Young Scientist Award” from Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists for his outstanding research work. and also he got Best Research scholar award-2012 from VIT University. He got 200 young scientist-2012 fellowship (DST) for to attend International conference.

Dr Philip Moore has been awarded Doctor of Engineering degree by the Graduate School of Engineering at Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan. He is a Master Supervisor and Adjunct professor at the School of Information Science and engineering, Lanzhou University and a Guest Professor at Shandong Normal University. He has worked with many international conferences, has worked as a project consultant on international projects, and serves on the editorial board on a number of international Journals and has edited books and journal special issues. His work has been published in international conference proceedings, journals, and books.

Jun Shen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2015. Since 2016 he is an Associate Professor in the College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include positive systems, monotone systems, fractional order systems, model reduction, and robust control and filtering.

Dr. Zhang is a professor in College of Mechanical Engineering, Changzhou University, China. He has done researches in tribology (lubrication, friction and wear) for more than 20 years, and published more than one hundred papers in this field. He has developed the flow equation for a nanoscale fluid flow and the theory of mixed rheologies elastohydrodynamic lubrication. He has also authored fourteen invention patents, a lot of which have been transferred to enterprises

Prof. Tounsi Abdelouahed is currently working in the Department of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Technology) at University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria. His specialization is in Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical behavior of Composite Structures. Moreover, his research interests lie in the areas of Non-local Elasticity, FEM, Composite Structures, Functionally graded Materials, Nanostructures and Nano-Biology. Prof. Abdelouahed is the editorial board member of 7 renowned scientific journals. He, as an author/co-author, has published more than 200 articles in various journals.

Dr. Francesco Benedetto is currently the Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on "Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management". Since 2008, he has been an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at the Third University of Rome, where he currently teaches the courses of "Elements of Telecommunications", "Software Cognitive Radio", and “Cognitive Communications”. He is a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of: IEEE Standard Association, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Software Defined Networks, IEEE Communications, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Vehicular Technology.

He is an engineer graduated from the Northern Industrial Institute, a doctor in automatic and physical control and an outstanding class teacher at the École Centrale de Lille. He was the scientific director of this establishment from 1982 to 2005 .He participated in the creation of the Laboratory of Automation, Computer Engineering and Signal 4.He was president of the French section of the IEEE 3 from 2011 to 2013. In 1994 he was awarded the Kuhlmann Prize for his research. He has been Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2007.

Confirmed Associate Professor of Structural Engineering – Vice Director Dept. DICEA Faculty of Engineering, University Polytechnic of Marche, Ancona, Italy Author of approximately 140 scientific publications in the following main fields of research: masonry structures; damage in reinforced concrete beams; composite materials in civil structures. Participation of scientific committees of Conferences and Organizer of sessions. Member of Int. Council Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) as masonry structure expert in Commission W023 - Wall Structures. Elected Convenor of Seismic Work Group in 2013 – CIB Commission W023 - Wall Structures. Reviewer of international scientific journals and Editorial board member.

Chong Cheng is a DRS and AvH postdoc researcher in Freie Universität Berlin. He obtained his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University. Then, he pursued his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Changsheng Zhao. From 2013, he had been doing research works at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with Prof. Nicholas A. Kotov as Joint-Training Ph.D. student. After finishing his Ph.D studies, he joined the group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag as a DRS POINT and Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin.

Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” since 2010. He graduated with a first class honors degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Naples and awarded PhD in Construction Engineering. He was a Member of the COST Action C26 on “Urban Habitat Constructions under Catastrophic Events” and contributed to the COST Action C25“Sustainability of Constructions: Integrated Approach to Life-time Structural Engineering”. He actively works in both national and international research projects in the field of Structural Engineering. In particular, he has been member of several European projects such as: PROHITECH (2005 – 2009), HSS SERF (2009-2013) DUAREM (2010-2013) and EQUALJOINTS (2013-2016). He is Author of more than 100 papers, published in Proceedings of both National and International Conference, chapters of Books and Journals. These papers deal with several subjects in the following fields: seismic response of steel structures, seismic response analysis and retrofitting of existing RC buildings, vulnerability of ancient metallic structures, riveted connections, and composite materials.

Full Professor in Structural Mechanics and Engineering at University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria,, Italy.. Post Doctorate fellowship in Structural Engineering,, University of Palermo,, Italy,, Faculty of Engineering,, Department of Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica.. Ph..D in Structural Engineering,, Uniiverrsiitty off Napollii ""Federico II",, Italy;; University of Swansea,, Wales,, U..K.. Member of the National (Italian) Academic Committee of Solids and Structural Mechanics group..The research activity is witnessed by more than 100 publications in international journals,, scientific monographs and proceedings of national and international conferences as well as by the participation and/or organization of international conferences and scientific meetings.

Dr. Gao is professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His major research interests include biological wastewater treatment, membrane technology, fate and transport of pollutants in environment, environmental biotechnology, microbial ecology. Dr. Gao is an investigator of more than 20 research projects. He has published over 100 papers in high-quality international journals and 16 national innovation patents. He is an associate editor of Water Science and Technology, and editorial board member for five international journals.

İnan Güler graduated from Erciyes University in 1981. He took his M.S. degree from Middle East Technical University in 1985, and his Ph.D. degree from İstanbul Technical University in 1990, all in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is a Professor at Gazi University where he is Head of Electronics. His interest areas include biomedical systems, biomedical signal processing, biomedical instrumentation, electronic circuit design, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. He has written more than 300 articles on his interest areas. He is Editorial Board member of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence since 2006.

I am Jin Huang, and obtained the Ph.D degree in Wuhan University and is working as full-professor in Southwest University (China) now. I have carried out the scientific research at Institute of Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wuhan University of Technology, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, EastChina Normal University, and so on. My research field focuses on sustaining chemistry and engineering based on high-value utilization of bio-resources, and chemical processing technologies towards materials including nanoparticles modification and macromolecular nano-assembly in large scale. So far, I have published over 150 peer-reviewed paper, and edited three monograph and wrote eight book chapters.

Tao Huang is an Associate Professor and Director of Bioinformatics Core Facility at Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed his post-doctoral research at Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning and big data research. He has published over 150 articles. His works have been cited for 5261 times with an h-index of 32 and an i10-index of 99.

Dr. Zuohua Huang is the professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Fellow of the Combustion Institute, Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute. He is ranking the top 2% highly cited researcher in Engineering Worldwide.

Professor J. Lam received a BSc (1st Hons.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He is Chair of Control Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and a Cheung Kong Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, China. Professor Lam is Editor-in-Chief of IET Control Theory and Applications and Journal of The Franklin Institute, Subject Editor of Journal of Sound and Vibration, Editor of Asian Journal of Control, Associate Editor of Automatica, He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (2014, 2015) and Computer Science (2015).

Feng Liang is an Associate Professor at State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China. Prior to this, Dr. Liang received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), Japan. After his Ph.D., he worked as postdoctoral fellowship in TIT. He has published more than 40 papers. He is an advisory panel member of Nanotechnology (IF: 3.4)(2017.01-2018.12), editorial board member of Ctalysts, Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science, Open Chemistry Journal. His research topic includes electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices (sodium-air battery, Sodium-CO2 battery, solid state battery), solid electrolyte, carbon nanomaterials (graphene, carbon nanohorn) synthesis and their application for energy storage, plasma technology for nanomaterial synthesis and modification.

Dr. Huchang Liao received his Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Engineering from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2015. He is an Associate Researcher in the Business School at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas of Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Information Science, Management Science, Decision Analysis, Fuzzy Set Theory, AHP, Quantitative Research, and Decision Making. Dr. Liao, as an author/co-author, has published more than 60 articles in various journals, having total citations of over 1,235.

Dr. Hao Lin is a Professor of Center for Informational Biology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. from Inner Mongolia University, P.R. China in 2007. His researches are focused on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in SCI-indexed journals. His publications have been cited over 6,000 times with H-index of 40 in Google Scholar (update in 2018.9). Homepage is http://lin-group.cn/.0

Dr Zhenjun Ma obtained his BEng and MSc degrees in Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2001 and 2004 respectively, and received his PhD degree in Building Energy Efficiency and Automation from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. He is now a Senior Lecturer at Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), University of Wollongong, Australia. His has been working extensively on building energy efficiency and sustainable building energy technologies and has published over 60 journal articles and 35 conference papers.

Prof. Mehrpooya is associate professor at Renewable Energies and Environmental Department, University of Tehran. He is head of hydrogen and fuel cell laboratory. In this laboratory they research on micro fuel cell manufacturing and nano-structured electrocatalysts. He has more than 10 years of experience in design and optimization of integrated renewable and non-renewable processes like fuel cell power plants, hydrogen production and liquefaction, high temperature solar thermal hybrid energy systems, CO2 capturing processes and cryogenic processes. Prior to joining Renewable Energies and Environment Department he worked on various kinds of production processes especially in energy systems and catalytic processes in oil gas industries. Dr. Mehrpooya holds a PhD in chemical engineering from chemical engineering department at University of Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Hua Meng is a professor in School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Zhejiang University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, in 2001. His research focuses on supercritical-pressure heat transfer, supercritical-pressure combustion, and PEM fuel cell modeling. He is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Dr. Evangelos Sapountzakis is Civil Engineer, Professor at the Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Diploma from NTUA (1984), MSc and DIC degrees from Imperial College, London (1985), PhD degree from NTUA (1991). Apart from NTUA, he is also Professor of Structural Analysis at the School of Corps of Engineers of the Hellenic Army and the Hellenic Open University. His published research comprises 105 original papers in international journals, 143 papers in international conference proceedings, 12 Chapters in books and 5 educational books, while he is the editor of 4 Books or Conference Proceedings. Honorary Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Academic Editor, Regional Editor and Associate Editor of international journals. He has extensive experience (30 years) in the design and analysis of bridge and other large scale structural projects.

Dr. Mohsen Sheikholeslami works at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in Iran. He is head of Renewable energy systems and nanofluid applications in heat transfer Laboratory at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology. His research interests are Nanofluid, CFD, simulation, Mesoscopic modeling, Nonlinear Science, Magnetohydrodynamic, Ferrohydrodynamic, Electrohydrodynamic and Heat exchangers. He has written several papers and books in various filed of mechanical engineering. He is also the first author of the books "Applications of Nanofluid for Heat Transfer Enhancement", "Application of semi analytical methods for nanofluid flow and heat transfer", "Hydrothermal Analysis in Engineering Using Control Volume Finite Element Method" and "External Magnetic Field Effects on Hydrothermal Treatment of Nanofluid" which are published in ELSEVIER. According to the reports of Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics), he has been selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (Top 0.01%) in 2016 and 2017.

Giovanni Vozzi was graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1998 at the University of Pisa. In 2002 got the PhD in Bioengineering at Polytechnic of Milan. From 1/05/2006 to 28/12/2014 he was Assistant Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione of University of Pisa. Actually he is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione of University of Pisa He is member of Directors board of International Society for Biofabrication, of IEEE and Of National Group of Bioengineering. His research interests are: 1)development of new micro and nanofabrication techniques; 2) development of bioreactors; 3) mechanical, chemical and cell characterisation of new biomaterials; 4) development of cell models through the fusion of Automatic Controls principles and of cell biochemical reactions.

Dr. Qing-Guo WANG earned his B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering in 1982.He further received M. Eng. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1987 both in industrial automation from Zhejiang University, PR China. He held Alexander-von Humboldt Research fellowship of Germany from 1990 to 1992. He served with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National University of Singapore as a full professor from 1992 to 2015. He is currently a member of Academy of Science in South Africa. His present research interests are mainly in modeling, estimation, prediction, control, optimization and automation for complex systems. He has published over 270 international journal papers and 7 books. He received over 12000 citations with h-index of 63.

Guosong Wu is presently a professor of Hohai University (China). He received his Ph.D. in materials processing engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) in 2007. Before he joined Hohai University, he has worked as a researcher in Chinese Academy of Sciences, City University of Hong Kong and Kwangwoon University (South Korea) for about 10 years. His research interests include surface engineering, corrosion science and plasma related technologies. He has published more than 70 international journal papers that have been cited over 1900 times (H-index=30). Also, he is working as an editorial board member for 4 international journals.

The group of Prof. Yan concentrates on the environmentally friendly catalysis based on nanomaterials and the research interests span in heterogeneous conversion of biomass and biomass-derived monomers into value-added chemicals and biofuels, electro catalytic energy conversion and storage, catalytic degradation of solid waste and heavy metals.

Tiangui Ye is the Associate Professor of Marine Engineering and Power Engineering at Harbin Engineering University, China. He graduated in Marine Engineering in 2012 and obtained a Ph.D. in Marine Engineering in 2017 at Harbin Engineering University. Ye has been author and coauthor of about 60 papers on the topics of Structural dynamics, Acoustics of composite and laminated Structures, Ship vibration and noise reduction techniques and Plate and shell theories, most of which have been published in first rate international journals. He was honored with Science and Technology Award of Heilongjiang Province in 2017 and Preeminent Innovation Scholarship of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2016.

Dr. Foo Keng Yuen is a lecturer and researcher of River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests are environmental engineering, waste utilization, water treatment technology, catalysis, food security and toxicology, and environmental health. Foo has a Web of Science Hirsch index of 31. He has authored more than 100 publications in reputed international, high-impact and proceeding journals, and book chapters, with the total citations of exceeding 4,000 times. He serves as Editor, Editorial Board Members, Scientific Adviser, Technical Committee, Review Committee, Keynote and Invited Speakers in several international scientific journals, conferences, and research seminars.

Jingdong Zhang is currently a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from Hunan University (China) in 2000, and then carried out postdoctoral studies at Chonbuk National University (South Korea), Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan), Kyoto University (Japan) and Jackson State University (USA) during 2001- 2006. His research spans analytical chemistry and environmental chemistry. He is interested in electroanalytical chemistry, environmental electrochemistry, pollutant determination and removal, and photoelectrochemical materials. He has published more than 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals and 4 book chapters.

Prof. Yumin Chen is presently serving as a Director of Institute of Engineering safety and Disaster prevention. He has completed his BS from China University of Mining and Technology - Xuzhou, China. He further obtained PhD from Hohai University, Nanjing China. His research interest include Soil liquefaction and induced large deformation, Liquefaction mitigation: drainage pile, desaturation and biological reinforcement, Soft soil improvement, Disaster prevention in Offshore Engineering and Numerical analysis for Geotechnical Engineering. He has contributed his publications in different scientific journals.

Hung-Chun Chien received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Yuan-Ze University (YZU), Chung-Li, Taiwan, in 2000, and the MS (Electrical Engineering) and PhD (Electronic Engineering) degrees from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2007–2008, he served as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Since 2018, he was with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Ming Chuan University (MCU), Taoyuan City, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Chien teaching and research interests are in the areas of analog circuits and systems, circuit theory, active-RC circuit designs, and current-mode signal processing.

Prof. Harijono Djojodihardjo (Sarjana Teknik Mesin, Institut Teknologi Bandung, 1962; M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1964; Mech.E. 1965, S.M. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1966 and Sc.D. in Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics, 1968, all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Insinyur Professional Utama (IPU, Prime Professional Engineer) certification was conferred by the Indonesian Institution of Engineers (PII) in 2009 and ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer in September 2010 by the ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer. He is an Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (since 2008). In 2009 he was appointed as the AIROD Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra. Formerly he was Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (2004-2008), Universitas Al-Azhar Indonesia (2005-2010) and Institut Teknologi Bandung (1989-2005), and Visiting Professor at Technische Unversitaet Muenchen (2002) and Toyohashi University of Technology (2002 - 2003), Chairman, Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional – LAPAN), and Secretary, Indonesian National Council for Aeronautics and Space (DEPANRI - Feb.1999-June.2000), Adviser for Aerospace Affairs to the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, April-June 1998, Inspector General for Development, Technology and Strategic Industries, at the Office of the President of the Republic of Indonesia (June 1998 – January 1999), Deputy Chairman for Technology Development, The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology/ Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (1991-1998). He has devoted a combined teaching, research, industrial and management experience totaling of 51 years since, which is a manifestation of his career objectives, strong interest, dedication and commitments in education, science and technology.

Pengfei Gao is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). He received his Bachelor degree and Ph. D degree in 2010, and 2015, respectively, from NPU. He won the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST and the Hong Kong Scholar Program in 2018. His research interest is the prediction and control of macro-defect, microstructure and mechanical property in the plastic forming of metals, including the hot forging and spinning of titanium alloy, superalloy and aluminum alloy components.

Jiajie Guo (M’12) received the B.S. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the Department of Engineering Mechanics and Science, Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2009 and 2011, respectively.,He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests include mechatronics, robotics, and system dynamics/control. .

Dr. He has finalized his PH. D. from Sichuan University, College of Chemistry in 2006. He currently holds the position of Professor & Doctoral Supervisor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University China. His recent area of research mainly includes Material Science and Engineering, electrochemical catalysis and so on.

Dr. Wangli He is currently a Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, networked nonlinear systems, security of cyber-physical systems. She is the Chair of Technical Committee on Networked-based Control Systems and Applications of IES. She was the Visiting Associate Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University (2015-2017). She was the recipient of Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award of Jiangsu Province in 2001, Young Elite Scientist of CAST in 2017, Young Rising Star Award of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission in 2018.

Dr. Huang completed her PH. D. in 2008 from the Institute of Geophysics, China. She is been working in the field of seismology for so many years. Currently she is holding the position of Research Fellow at China Earthquake Network Center. Her main research area involves Hydrogeology, Engineering geology, Structural geology, Tectonophysics, Petro-geology, Geochemistry, Earthquake hydrology & hydro-seismology, Induced seismicity, especially in the Interaction between fluids and rocks and its role during earthquake preparation and occurrence aimed at Earthquake Prediction, and so on.

Dr Qunxian Huang is an associate professor in the College of Civil Engineering at Huaqiao University (HQU), Xiamen, China, where he received his PhD in structural engineering. He currently serves as the director of the experimental centre of civil engineering, HQU. His research focuses on seismic analysis and design of structural concrete, seismic performance assessment of structures, seismic strengthening and retrofitting of RC buildings, as well as disaster prevention and mitigation of rural buildings. Dr Huang was a visiting scholar of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST during March-August 2015.

Dr. Jialong Jiao currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, South China University of Technology, China. He received his bachelor’s degree and doctoral degree in the major of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, China in 2012 and 2016, respectively. His research interests include ship seakeeping performance, wave-induced loads and slamming loads, hydroelastic responses of flexible ships and offshore structures. He has more than 30 first-author papers published/accepted in famous professional journals, and some of the papers are recommended and cited by the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) Seakeeping Committee and the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) Loads Committee.

Professor Andrew Leung taught in HKU and Manchester U and is now associating with HK City University. He is honorary/guest professor of 15 universities internationally and is the President of Asian Institute of Intelligent Buildings, Chairman of the Chinese Green Building (HK) Council, a member of The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors HK Board, the Join Structural Division Committee HKIE & IStructE, a Special Fellow of CIOB and HK BEAM Faculty.

I received the M.Eng, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Northeast Normal University (NENU), Jilin, China, in 2012, and 2015, respectively. Currently, I’m an associate professor in School of Computer Science, Northeast Normal University, Jilin, China. From 2015/11 to 2016/11, I visited the University of Surrey as an academic visitor. I am now working as senior research associate at the City University of Hong Kong. I am particularly interested in bioinformatics, computational intelligence, and system biology.

Dr. Liu finalized his PH. D. from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2002 with the Major in Study of diffusion Bonding Mechanism and Reaction Layer Growth Behavior of SiC Ceramic to TiAl Alloys. Currently he helds the position Professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin. His main research area covers Friction Stir Welding Mechanism and Hybrid Technology, Joining Technology of Advanced and Dissimilar Materials, Control of Welding Equipment and Welding Quality and many more.

Dr. Junmin Liu Ha s finalized hi PH. D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi. Most recently he helds the position of Associate Professor at Department of Information Science, Xi’an Jiaotong Universit. His Research interest mostly includes Remote Sensing Image Processing, Subspace Clustering, Intelligent Information Processing, along with nonnegative matrix factorization, deep learning, etc. He has also received a number of Grants & Awards some of which are Xu Zongben Applied Mathematics Prize, 2013, Scholarship of Huawei, 2013, Excellent Graduate Student of Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2012, First-class Scholarship of Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2012-2013, Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student of Ministry of Education, 2011, and so on.

Dr. Yu E. Ma finalized her PH. D. in 2006 from Northwestern Polytechnical University. She now holds the position of Professor of Solid Mechanics at Northwestern Polytechnical University since 2014, As a professor in Structural Integrity and Durability, she focuses her research interests on three aspects; the first one is structural (including welded structure) fracture and fatigue, damage tolerance and durability analysis and design, structural reliability; the second one is composite mechanics and composite structural design; the last one is nonlinear thermal-mechanical analysis method and thermal structural design. Her research involves modeling, analysis and design solutions in the context of structural durability and damage tolerance with the aim of designing safer and lighter structures. She also performs experimental tests to validate the models.

Dr. Mao Completed his PH. D. from School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2007. Ever since he has been working on the field of Power and Energy. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University since 2017. His Current Research area revolves around Turbomachinery Flow and Noise among others.

Dr. Niu works as an Associate Professor at Shanghai Maritime University since 2008. He completed his PH. D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2004 with his major as Control Theory & Control Engineering. He teaches courses of Modern Measurement Theory and Technology, Fieldbus Technology, Modern Sensors Technology to MS students. His main Research area comprises of Control of hybrid ships and cranes, wireless power transfer (WPT), prognostics and health management (PHM) and etc.

Dr. Niu finished his PH. D. from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands in 1994. He has been a pillar in the field of Mechanical Engineering for so many years. Currently he holds the position of Chair Professor of Building Environment and Energy, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His Research Interests includes Turbulence modeling, computational fluid dynamics(CFD) and Numerical heat transfer, Building Environment and Energy Utilization, Indoor air quality(IAQ) and Thermal comfort and so on.

Dr. Ren received his PhD degree of the electrical engineering from the University of Hong Kong, where now he is an associate professor at Anhui University, China. His research interest includes the nano-optics, optoelectronics, electromagnetics, photovoltaics, plasmonic. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed paper and received more than 1000 citations.

Dr. Swellam Wafa Abdellatif Ali Sharshir obtained his PhD. degree in "Thermal Power Engineering"from School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2017. Currently, he is a Lecturer (Assistant professor) at the Faculty of Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. His research interests are (a) Solar Energy Applications (b) Solar Desalination (c) Nanofluid Properties and Applications (d) Energy Storage (e) Management of Energy Resources and Renewable Energy (f) Computer Aided Analysis, Experimental and Design of Renewable Energy (g) Computer Aided Analysis, Experimental and Design of Air Conditioning by Solar Energy.

Dr. Song received the B.S. degrees in applied mathematics, the M.E. and PH. D degrees in physical Oceanography from Ocean University of China in 2003, 2006 and 2011, respectively. Now he is a Professor at First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, China, and PI of Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, QNLM, China. His research interest includes ocean and climate model development, high performance computing, and machine learning. He developed two generations of earth system model named FIO-ESM and is in charge of participating CMIP. He published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and received more than 1000 citations.

Dr. Hao Tong Has Finished his PH. D. from Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology in2008. He is currently an associate professor in Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. During 2008-2010, he worked at Tsinghua University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His area of research includes Researches focus on micro/nano machining technology and system including micro EDM, micro ECM, intelligent servo control, CNC system, etc.

Dr. Wang finalized his PhD in Structural Engineering from School of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, in 2006. He is currently holding the position of Professor in Structural Engineering at School of Civil Engineering Lanzhou University of Technology. His recent research areas includes Steel & Concrete Composite Structures, Structures Fire Resistance of China Architecture Societyand so on.

Dr. Lei Wang has finished his PH.D. from Beihang University, Solid Mechanics 2015/7. He is currently holding a position as a Lecturer at School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, he has also received Grants Awards some are 1. National Nature Science Foundation of the P. R. China 11602012, Research on Reliability-based Design Optimization of Porous Material Structure Subjected to Preparation Instability. 2017.1-2019.12, PI, 2. Pre-research Field Foundation of Equipment Development Department of China 61402100103 New method of vibration and noise control. 2017.1-2018.12. PI, 3. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2016M591038 Research on Non-probabilistic Set-method for Static and Dynamic Reliability Analysis of Composite Laminated Structure. 2015.09~2017.09. PI. His research interst includes Uncertainty quantification (UQ) analysis, Structural reliability analysis Optimization design under uncertainty, Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO), Inverse problems in mechanics, Noise prediction and active vibration control.

Dr. Hongyu Wang is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Delaware and an Associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Engineering, Qinghai University. He did D.E. in Materials Science from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2016. Dr. Wang has numerous publications to his credit.

Dr. Wei Fan obtained her Doctor of Optics degree from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in 2004. Currently, she is a Professor in Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics. As a team leader of the front-end research group and a professor in National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics in Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine mechanics, her research mainly focused on global laser control technology to improve the control ability and reliability of high power laser systems.

Weimin Wu (M’16) received Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005. Since July, 2006, he has been a Faculty Member at Shanghai Maritime University, where he is currently a Full Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering. He has coauthored over 100 papers and holds eight patents. His areas of interests include power converters for renewable energy systems, power quality, smart grid, and energy storage technology. Dr. Wu serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY ELECTRONICS

Dr. Wu finalized his PH. D. from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2007. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China since 2012. His Research Interests consists upon Solid state transformer technologies and application, including the multistage topologies and single stage matrix converter based AC-AC and AC-DC topologies, New inverter topology and control algorithm for grid-connected renewable energy generation system aiming to enhance efficiency, extend operation range and reduce grid current THD, Phase-locked loop technologies for estimating the synchronous information of utility grid, Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm of PV and wind turbine generator and so on.

Biography: Dr. Xin Xiao is currently a chemistry professor at South China Normal University in China. He received his Ph.D. from South China University of Technology in 2011. His research interests include nanomaterials, photocatalysis, energy storage, and water treatment. He has published more than 60 SCI papers, and these papers have been cited nearly 2,000 times.

Weikai Xu (S'10-M'12) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Three Gorges College, Chongqing, China, in 2000, the M.Sc. degree in communication and information system from the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic circuit and system from the Xiamen University of China, Xiamen, China, in 2011. From 2003 to 2012, he was a Teaching Assistant, and Assistant Professor in Communication Engineering of Xiamen University. He is now an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Engineering of Xiamen University. His research interests include chaotic communications, underwater acoustic communications, channel coding, cooperative communications and ultra-wideband.

Dr. Jinyang Xu is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France, in 2016. His research interests include mechanical machining, materials processing and numerical modeling. He has published over fifty articles in international journals/conferences and received the Best Paper Awards at the 2017 CJUMP and the 2015 ISGMA conferences. He was nominated for the Pierre Bézier Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2016 and was the recipient of the National Government Study Abroad Scholarship of China (2013), the Excellent Master Thesis Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), the Excellent Graduate Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), and the National Graduate Scholarship of China (2012).

Prof. Dr Xu received the double B.E. degree from Tianjin University (TJU), China, in July 2002, and M.E. degree from TJU in March 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in July 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2008 to 2011, he had been one Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. His academic research activities in this period mainly included drive machines for linear metro and plug-in hybrid electrical vehicle (PHEV), which were financially supported by the UTS Vice Chancellor Research Fellowship (one-year), the UTS Early Career Researcher Grant, and two international research grants in China. From 2011 to 2013, Dr Xu had been appointed as one Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in RMIT University. Since March 2013, he has been appointed as one Full Professor with School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, which is one of Top Three Universities in the field of China Electrical Engineering. Now he is leading one group (4 Staff, 2 Postdoctoral Fellows, and more than 40 PhD/ME students) for the development on high performance of drive machines and systems, converters, inverters, and so on.

Dr. Jianghong Xue completed his PH. D. in 2002 from University of Akron, OH, USA. He is holding the position of Professor at Jinan University since 2010. HIs research area mostly includes Nonlinearly Mechanics of Offshore Structures, Mechanics of Composite Materials, Constitutive Equation for Thermo-viscoelastic Material, Structural Integrity Analysis for Plates and Shells, Finite Element Analysis and so on.

Dr. Lei Yang has obtained his PhD at Uppsala University with Professor Anders Hagfeldt, and then worked as a research fellow at Monash University with Professor Udo Bach. Currently, he is selected in the “Hundred Talent Program of Shaanxi Provence” by Chinese government, working as an Associate Professor at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. He has published more than 30 papers in SCI journals, such as JACS, Appl. Catal. B- Environ., ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Chem. Eng. J., Water Res., J. Hazard. Mater., etc. The total citation has exceeded 1300 for an H-index of 12.

Dr. Yi Yang is presently serving as a Professor at School of Manufacture Science and Engineering Sichuan University, China. He completed his BS and MS in casting from the Wuhan Institute of Technology, China and Shenyang Polytechnic University Shenyang, China respectively. He has been recognized with awards and honors such as Second award for scientific and technological progress of Sichuan province, First prize of excellent graduation design, The outstanding experts with special contributions and many others. He has also contributed his publication in different scientific journals.

Balal Yousaf currently works as a Assistant Professor/Associate Researcher at the School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei in (Anhui) China. He has an academic background in Environmental Geochemistry & Pollution combined with a practical work experience in Biochar Science. His research interests include Soil and Water Remediation, Transformation Mechanism and Fate of Environmental Contaminants, Minerals Interaction with Environmental Contaminants, Green Synthesis, Biowaste Conversion, Bioenergy and Environmental Pollution Control. He is particularly interested in how “modifications and advancements in pyrolyzed feed materials affect the product characteristics during thermochemical conversion and/or its Environmental Applications.”

Dr. Zhang finalized his PH. D. from Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Major in Thermal Engineering in 2014. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang. His current research interests focus on the computational particle technology mainly in three fields: (i) Process metallurgy; (ii) Air pollution controlling and environmental protection; (iii) Efficient and quality conversion of renewable energy. In the past decade, he has had profound experience of using various particle-based numerical schemes like LBM, DEM and SPH on >10 projects. As a result, he is the author of >80 publications, half of which were published in reputed international journals. He serves as the Youth Director of Chinese Society of Particuology.

Xinming Zhang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2001. Since Mar. 2002, he has been with the faculty of the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, where he is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, also with the School of Data Science. He is also with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. From Sept. 2005 to Aug. 2006, he was a visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.

Jun Zheng received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power of SWJTU in Chengdu, China. She was awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship of Australian Government as a Visiting Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong in 2013. Her research focuses on high temperature superconducting electromagnetic characteristics, HTS magnet and superconducting magnetic levitation technology. Up to now, she has authored or co-authored 106 SCI-indexed papers and granted 15 Chinese patents.

Dr. Zhou completed his PH. D. from Wuhan University on 2010. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University. His research interests includes Rain-wind Induced Vibration of High-Voltage Transmission Tower-lines System, Downburst Induced Vibration of Transmission Tower-lines Structure, Finite element method and vibration theory and so on.

Dr. Zhu Yuchuan is currently a Professor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics(NUAA), Nanjing, china. His research areas are (1) Model prediction and inverse compensation of smart materials-based actuators; (2) Temperature field, electromagnetic field distribution and multi-field analysis of Magnetostrictive actuators; (3) Magnetostrictive actuators-driven Electro-hydraulic servovalve, Magnetostrictive actuator-powered Electro-hydraulic pump and Compact hybrid actuators; (4) Mechanically and fluidly amplified devices of smart materials-based actuators.

Jianbing Gao obtained Ph.D from Beijing Institute of Technology on July 2017, then joined University of Surrey, as a postdoctor. From January 2019, he has been a postdoctor of University of Leeds. His research interests cover exhaust emission control of internal combustion engines; opposed rotary piston engine and physicochemical properties of particulate matter form internal combustion engine.

Professor He explores the boundaries of materials processing technology, solid mechanics, and material microscopy, in order to provide game-changing manufacturing solutions to high-performance challenges. Ji does research in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering. His group at SJTU mainly focuses on: developing new material testing methods and precise material models for mechanical properties; employing these methods to improve the physical understanding of the plastic deformation, damage and necking failure, phase transformation from the Micro to Macro mechanisms; creating new manufacturing processes design based on this improved understanding.

Ph.D Liyong Ma is currently an Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China. His main research areas include machine learning, intelligent information processing, biomedical imaging and image processing. In recent years, more than 30 papers have been published, of which more than 20 articles have been retrieved by EI and SCI.

Dr. Yanbing Qi is an associate professor at College of natural resources and environment, Northwest A☀F University. He received Ph.D. from Northwest A&F University. He has ever been a post doctor in the institute of soil science, Chinese academy of science. His main research interests include remote sensing based natural resources and environment monitoring and evaluation, soil process modeling and classification, desertification and revegetation assessment. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed paper and received more than 300 citations.

Dr. SHEN Wenai is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). He received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference papers. His major research interests include structural vibration control, smart materials and structures, and energy harvesting.

Dr. Yuansheng Zhou (周元生) is an associate professor of Central South University (CSU), Changsha, Hunan, and the Vice-Director of Department of Vehicle Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in CSU. He also works as a senior member of the gear research group in State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing. He obtained his Ph.D. degree of Mechanical Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2015. His research topic includes Gear Design and Manufacturing, CAD/CAM/CAE, CNC Machining, Measurement, CNC Machine Tools.

Yaguang Zhu, Associate Professor of Chang’an University, China. He obtained Ph.D. in mechatronic engineering at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include robotics, robot navigation, Behavior Control and Neural Control. He has been PI of 13 different projects on robot and control systems, and participated in 12 other projects. He published over 40 articles and got 18 patents. He is selected as " Young Scholar of Chang’an " at Chang' an University in 2018. He is founder and head of Biomimetics & Collaborative Robotics Lab and is also the Co-PI of Advanced Control and Robotics Institute, Chang’an University, China.