 Professor CHEN Yuli | [Presentation Title] Microstructure Design and Identification for Advanced Materials Prof. Chen is a professor and head of Institute of Solid Mechanics, Beihang Univeristy. Her research interest is focused on mechanics of heterogeneous materials, multi-scale analysis and metamaterials design. She currently serves as a council member of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), associate editor of Composites Part A and Forces in Mechanics. She has been selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents (2013), National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scientist Fund Program (2016), the Young Changjiang Scholars Program (2017) and National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2022), and she has won CSTAM Youth Science and Technology Award (2021), the first prize of Natural Science Award from CSTAM (2021), the second prize of national teaching achievement (2023), and China Young Female Scientists Award (2024). |
 Professor DUAN Huigao | [Presentation Title] Wafer-level Perfect Conformal Contact Photolithography Towards the Diffraction Limit Prof. Duan is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Hunan University and a recipient of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund. He received his BS and PhD in Physics from Lanzhou University in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, he was working as a Researcher in Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2008 to 2012, he was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then a Research Scientist in Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Singapore). He was also a visiting scientist at the University of Stuttgart in 2012, hosted by Prof. Harald Giessen. He joint Hunan University as a full professor in 2012 and then setup a micro/nanofabrication laboratory there. He has co-authored more than 310 peer-reviewed journal papers with an H-index of 79. His current research interest is ultraprecision micro/nanomanufacturing and its optical applications. He has served as Editor or Associate Editor for several renowned journals such as International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing and Deputy Editor for Research (a Science Partner Journal). |
 Professor HUANG Yongan | [Presentation Title] Laser-induced Interfacial Ablation for Flexible Electronics Manufacturing Prof. Huang is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and serves as the Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology. A recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (with renewal funding) and the Tencent "XPLORER PRIZE", his research focuses on flexible electronics, specifically 1) flexible electronic devices and systems, and 2) manufacturing processes and equipment. He has authored over 200 SCI papers in leading journals such as PNAS, Science Advances, and Nature Communications, and holds over 100 Chinese patents and 5 U.S. patents. Prof. Huang is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the National Technology Invention Award. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Soft Science and is on the editorial boards of several international journals. |
 Professor LEI Yaguo | [Presentation Title] Intelligent Operation and Maintenance for Machines Prof. Lei is a Full Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He had held the research position as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is a Fellow of ASME, IET, and ISEAM, as well as a Senior Member of IEEE, CAA, ORSC, and CMES. He serves as a Senior Editor for Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of over ten leading journals. His research interests focus on big data-driven intelligent maintenance, intelligent fault diagnostics and prognostics, reliability evaluation and remaining useful life prediction. He has published four monographs and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. His work has been cited over 32,000 times, with an H-index of 75 according to Google Scholar. His most-cited paper has received over 2,200 citations. His proposed methodologies and techniques have been widely applied in intelligent condition monitoring and diagnostic systems for renewable energy systems and other industrial domains, such as wind turbines, new-energy vehicles, and high-speed trains, etc. Prof. Lei has received the Xplorer Prize from the New Cornerstone Science Foundation. He has been recognized as a Global Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and a Chinese Most Cited Researcher by Elsevier. He is also listed in the Stanford/Elsevier Global Top 2% Scientists and holds the distinction of being ranked 1st in the field of Acoustics. |
 Professor QIAN Linmao | [Presentation Title] Progress and Challenges in Atomic Layer Removal Prof. Qian is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China. He received his B.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (2000) degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in China. After two years at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and one year at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the SWJTU in 2002. His research interests include nanotribology and atomic-level manufacturing. He has published more than 360 peer-reviewed journal papers and authorized more than 30 patents. He is the co-editor of Jurnal Tribologi, associate editor of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the editorial board of eight journals. He can be reached at linmao@swjtu.edu.cn. |
 Professor QU Yegao | [Presentation Title] Non-Hermitian Continuum: Structural-Acoustic Control Prof. Qu is a Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Director of the Institute of Vibration, Shock, and Noise, and the Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration. He received his Ph.D from shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. His main research interests are underwater acoustics, structural-acoustics, and flow induced vibration and acoustics. He received several prestigious awards, such as the First Prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, etc. He serves as an Associate Editor for Applied Acoustics and is an editorial board member of several international journals. |
 Professor TAN Swee Ching | [Presentation Title] Bioinspired Materials for Sustainable, Intelligent Systems Prof. Tan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on soft functional materials, scalable manufacturing, and energy-autonomous systems for sustainability and health. His work has been published in leading journals including Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, and Advanced Materials. Prof. Tan is the founder of Ultra Dry Pte. Ltd., a spin-off from NUS based on super-hygroscopic materials. He serves as Associate Editor of Nano Research Energy and Iontronics, and sits on the editorial board of Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), the advisory board of Device (Cell Press), and the international advisory board of Energy Technology (Wiley). |
 Professor WANG Liu | [Presentation Title] Mechanics of Magnetic Soft Robots for Endovascular Intervention Prof. Liu Wang is the head of Department of Modern Mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, followed by postdoctoral research at MIT. His research focuses on the mechanics of soft matter and soft robotics for biomedical applications. He has published over 80 papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Science Robotics. He was the awardee of Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in 2023 and serves as PI of NSFC Key Program and Excellent Young Scholar Fund. |
 Professor WANG Tao | [Presentation Title] Ultra-Thin Metal Strip Rolling Technology and Applications Prof. Wang is a professor at Taiyuan University of Technology. His research interests lie in the intelligentization of rolling processes and equipment, as well as metal composite rolling technology. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Metal Forming Technology and Heavy Equipment. He has published more than 100 academic papers as first or corresponding author, and has been granted over 50 invention patents in China, the United States and Japan. He has also received numerous national, provincial and ministerial awards for research and teaching. |
 Professor ZHOU Wei | [Presentation Title] Laser Manufacturing Technology for Intelligent Sensors Prof. Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a faculty postdoctoral fellow at Sun Yat-sen University. He is currently a Professor at Xiamen University and serves as Associate Dean of the Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology. His research interests include functional microstructure manufacturing, precision manufacturing technologies, high-efficiency hydrogen production, microchannel reactors, hydrogen fuel cells, loop heat pipes and heat exchangers, intelligent cutting tools, and intelligent sensors. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds more than 120 patents. He has led over 50 national and provincial level research projects, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, key projects of the National Regional Innovation Joint Fund, National Key R&D Program projects, and major science and technology initiatives of Fujian Province. His honors include the first prize of the Fujian provincial science and technology progress award, the second prize of the ministry of education of China technology invention award, the first prize of the Xiamen science and technology progress award, and the Xiamen outstanding science and technology innovation talent award, etc. |
