Prof. Duc Truong Pham
University of Birmingham, UK
Experience: Prof. Duc Truong Pham holds the Chance Chair of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His research is in the areas of intelligent systems, robotics, autonomous systems, and advanced manufacturing and remanufacturing technology. He has published over 600 technical papers and books and has graduated more than 100 PhD students. He is the recipient of several awards, including five prizes from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a lifetime achievement award from the World Automation Congress, and a Distinguished International Academic Contribution Award from the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Learned Society of Wales, the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is the founding editor of the Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing, the founding editor-in-chief of Cogent Engineering, and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing.
Prof. Yunhui Liu
IEEE Fellow, HKIE Fellow
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Experience: Professor Yunhui Liu is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree at Beijing Institute of Technology in 1985, the Master of Engineering from Osaka University in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1992. After working at the Electrotechnical Laboratory of Japan as a research scientist, he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and was promoted to Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering in 2002. He is currently the Director of the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute and the Director of the Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics, an InnoCentre funded by the InnoHK Clusters of the HKSAR government. Professor Liu is a globally renowned scholar in robotics and automation. His research interests include vision-based robotics, logistics robotics, medical robotics, construction robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. He has published over 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and was listed in the Highly Cited Authors (Engineering) list by Thomson Reuters in 2013. Professor Liu has received numerous research awards from international journals, conferences, and government agencies. His research is widely funded by the Hong Kong RGC, ITF, QEF, the national strategic development grant, etc. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Robotics and Biomimetics, an IEEE Fellow, and a HKIE Fellow.
Prof. Yang Liu
IAAM Fellow
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Experience: Yang Liu is currently a professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China. He received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay in 2016. Prior to joining the faculty at Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Qing Wang at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published more than 30 first-author or corresponding author papers in Nature, Nature Materials(3), and Nature Communications. He has received MRS postdoc award, the runners-up of FECS APS March Meeting Mini Grants, the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research Award. He became a 2022 Fellow of IAAM. His current research interests lie in physics and engineering of dielectric and ferroelectric polymers and nanocomposites for electronic, electromechanical and energy devices.
Prof. Z. Li
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Experience: Dr. Li has broad national and international collaborations with academic and industrial partners. Since 2005, when he joined the group, he has acquired more than 5.6 million euros in search funding from the Dutch national funding organizations for scientific and technological research, NOW and STW, the European Commission (EC), the International Union of Railways (UIC), the Dutch railway Infra Manager ProRail, and operator NS. Dr. Li obtained his BSc and MCs degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in computational mechanics on the numerical solution of rolling contact at Delft University of Technology in 2002. He worked between 1999 and 2005 at TNO, the Dutch organization for applied sciences, on multibody dynamics and finite element methods, as well as their applications in crashworthiness. He joined the group of railway engineers in 2005. He is currently a full professor of rail systems and monitoring.
Prof. Ning Sun
Nankai University, China
Experience: Ning Sun received the B.S. degree in measurement & control technology and instruments (with honors) from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering (with honors) from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2014. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is currently a Professor with the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. His research interests include intelligent control for mechatronic/robotic systems with an emphasis on (industrial) applications.Dr. Sun received the Machines 2021 Young Investigator Award, the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard), the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth Award in 2019, the ICCAR 2022 Young Scientist Award, the China 10 Scientific and Technological Developments in Intelligent Manufacturing of 2019, several outstanding journal/conference paper awards, etc. He serves as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, and Journal of Field Robotics. In addition, he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board since July 2019, and he is/was an Associate Editor for the top robotics conferences IEEE ICRA and IEEE/RSJ IROS.
Prof. Yanle Li
Shandong University, China
Experience: In 2015, Yanle Li received his doctorate degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, and is now a professor, doctoral supervisor, party branch secretary of the Vehicle Engineering Research Institute, young expert of Taishan Scholars in Shandong Province, leader of the youth innovation team in Shandong universities, talent of Xuzhou City "Double Innovation Plan," and young future scholar of Shandong University. He is mainly engaged in the research of the basic theory, process method, and application technology of green low-carbon manufacturing of complex surface components, including flexible sheet forming, laser cladding, additive manufacturing, etc. I presided over more than 20 scientific research projects (including 6 national projects and 6 provincial and ministerial projects), including the National Natural Science Foundation, the Military Science and Technology Commission in the field of flexible forming, the first 173 foundation strengthening project subproject, the Central Military Commission installation and development project, the national key research and development program subproject, the China Postdoctoral Fund special funding project, the Shandong Province key research and development program, and other vertical projects. 13 industry-leading enterprises (Weichai Power, Jinan Heavy Industry, Shandong Haomai Machinery, etc.) commissioned 8 projects. He has published a total of 80 SCI/EI papers (more than 50 SCI/EI papers; he has cited them more than 1000 times, h-index 23), including 27 papers in JCR Q1/Region 1 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ranked 6th in the world in the number of SCI papers published in the field of "Incremental Sheet Forming" in the past 5 years. He has published 1 monograph, authorized 42 invention patents (including 4 international invention patents), applied for 5 PCT patents, obtained 5 software copyrights, won 1 first prize and 2 second prizes of China Machinery Industry Science and Technology, won 1 Excellence Award of China's industry-universal-research Cooperation Innovation Achievements, and won 3 first prizes of the Shandong Province Machinery Industry Science and Technology Progress Award. He is also the deputy secretary general of the Remanufacturing Committee of the China Internal Combustion Engine Association, a member of the Group and Intelligent Integration Technology Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the deputy chairman of the Shandong Provincial Machinery Industry Science and Technology Expert Committee.
Prof. Xiaolu Cui
Chongqing Jiaotong University, China
Experience: Xiaolu Cui is a distinguished individual with a remarkable presence in the field of transportation engineering and mechanical engineering. She holds prestigious positions such as being a Member of the Rail Transit System Discipline Technical Committee at the World Transportation Congress, a senior member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the second Youth Expert Committee at Chongqing Jiaotong University.
In addition to her professional affiliations, Xiaolu Cui also serves as a part-time tutor for international development at Chongqing Jiaotong University and is actively involved in various student associations, including the American and Western Students Association at the university. Furthermore, she holds the esteemed position of being the head of the Department of Vehicle Engineering at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Chongqing Jiaotong University.
Overall, Xiaolu Cui's extensive involvement in various professional committees, societies, and academic roles reflects her dedication to advancing the field of transportation engineering and mechanical engineering. Her leadership and commitment to education and research make her a respected figure in the academic and professional communities.
