Keynote Speakers

Prof. Zexiang SHEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Zechang Shin graduated from King's College London, UK, with a PhD in Physics in 1989 and was awarded the King's College London Prize for Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation. He is currently Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Center for Advanced Photonics Technology, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the Founding Associate Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School Program at Nanyang Technological University. He has been awarded the Singapore Newcomer Award for Outstanding Contribution, Global Highly Cited Scientist, Honorary Professor of Moscow State University, Adjunct Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other internationally renowned institutions, Singapore Physics Society Gold Medal for Research Excellence, Nanyang Technological University Research Innovation Award, Expert Advisory Committee of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and former President of the Singapore-China Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology Exchange. He was invited by the Nobel Prize Committee to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics and was invited to nominate candidates for the Japan Prize; under his initiative, Nanyang Technological University established the Institute of Photonics, with Sir David Payne as its director, and the Center for Disruptive Photonic Technologies. He also started Nanyang Technological University's collaboration with Vietnam National University (Hanoi), initiated collaboration agreements with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Moscow State University (MSU).

Prof. Yande Liu, East China Jiaotong University, China

Second-level professor, doctoral supervisor, currently the dean of the Intelligent Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Innovation Research Institute of East China Jiaotong University, leading talent of the third batch National "10,000 People Plan", the New Century Million Talents Project National Candidate, outstanding talent of the Ministry of Education, the head of the innovation team in the key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the "most beautiful scientist" of the China Instrumentation Society, and the first of Jiangxi Province Po Yingcai 555 Project "Leading Talent", and outstanding graduate student instructor in Jiangxi Province. 

Prof. Liu mainly engages in mechatronics and hydraulic integration technology, intelligent nondestructive testing technology and equipment research; has presided over the national 863 Program, 12 national projects such as the Science and Technology Support Program and the National Self-Science Fund; 10 provincial and ministerial awards such as the first prize of provincial scientific and technological progress. 

Prof. Liu has published more than 100 PAPERS included in SCI and EI, authorized 21 invention patents, 15 software copyrights, and 10 achievements transformation item.

Prof. Yaguo Lei, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Prof. Yaguo Lei a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), a recipient of the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund, a candidate of the National Special Support Program for High-Level Talents, and a highly cited scientist of Corevantage. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and other prestigious journals in this field. He has long been engaged in the research of mechanical system modeling and dynamic signal processing, big data intelligent fault diagnosis and life prediction, mechanical condition health monitoring and intelligent operation and maintenance. He has presided over more than 10 national projects such as National Key R&D Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was awarded the Second Prize of National Technical Invention, China Youth Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, and the Youth Science Award of Ministry of Education.

Prof. Tao Ye, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Professor Ye of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology is a doctoral supervisor, national distinguished expert (national key talent introduction project), adjunct professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1993 and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004. His main research directions are integrated circuits, EDA, brain-like neural circuits, artificial intelligence chips, Internet of Things communication chips and sensor devices. With more than 20 years of experience in the field of integrated circuit design and EDA, especially in the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and mix-signal IC (Mix-Signal IC), Prof Ye has a wealth of academic and industrial experience. He was the Technical Director of the Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain Management Technology R&D Centre (LSCM), one of the five government R&D centres in Hong Kong, and led a number of Hong Kong Government Innovation and Technology Fund projects as Project Leader and Principal Investigator. He has participated in the design of the world's first miniature low-power RFID tag chip and RFID reader chip, which combines RFID with mobile phone mobile platforms, so that RFID technology can eventually be extended to user terminals, and generate huge market opportunities in the fields of product anti-counterfeiting, authentication and payment. At the same time, Prof Ye also participated in the formulation and implementation of world standards and protocols for Internet of Things technology, and pioneered and developed a variety of key technologies for the Internet of Things. Prof Ye boasts deep experience in collaborating with business industries and the academic realm, having held engineering leaders and consulting positions at Synopsys Inc., Analog Devices Inc., Magma Design Automation Inc., Silicon Architects and various Silicon Valley companies, as well as adjunct professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Chief Scientist of the Internet of Things Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

A Prof. Wei Yao, National National University of Singapore, Singapore

Assistant Professor Yao holds a PhD from University of Cambridge, UK. Currently assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, PhD supervisor. Se has long been engaged in the preparation, forming and multifunctional characteristics of advanced structural and functional materials, and has made breakthroughs in the research on the integrated design and manufacture of functional materials-structures based on additive manufacturing in recent years. A Prof. Yao has presided over the Tier 1 Research Project of the Singapore Education Board, the Singapore Science and Technology Board Young Scholars Research Project, the National University of Singapore Basic Research Fund, and the Singapore Science and Technology Board and the United Kingdom Rolls-Royce Cooperation Project. With a good accumulation in the design and manufacture of additive manufacturing for mechanical, electromagnetic and acoustic metamaterials, Prof. Yao is also Editor-in-Chief of Material today Communications and Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Materials & Design. She has published more than 30 high-quality SCI search papers, google scholar H index 15, including engineering and comprehensive top journals Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia, Small, Applied Materials Today, ACS Applied Materials & interfaces, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

Prof, Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Yihui Zhang is a long-appointed professor at Tsinghua University. He has long been engaged in the research of soft matter mechanics, 3D microstructure assembly, and mechanics of flexible electronic devices. He has published more than 150 academic papers with more than 11,000 citations; 6 Chinese invention patents and 3 US invention patents have been granted. As the corresponding author, the relevant results have been published in Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Electronics, NSR, Nature Communications, Science Advances PNAS, JMPS, IJSS and other high level journals. He has received the Scientific Discovery Award, MIT Technology Review "35 Innovators Under 35 Worldwide", National Merit Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Scholar Award, International Society of Engineering Science Young Scholar Medal, ASME Sia Nemat- Nasser Early Career Award, Hong Kong Seeking Scholarship Award, and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Foundation. Nasser Early Career Award, Hong Kong Qiushi Distinguished Young Scholar Award, ASME Melville Medal, and Corevantage Highly Cited Scholar Award. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances, Mechanics of Materials, Journal of Applied Mechanics, International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, and Research. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Engineering Sciences, and the Vice Chairman of the Working Group on Mechanics of Electronic and Electromagnetic Devices and the Working Group on Mechanics of Soft Matter of the Chinese Society of Mechanics.

Zong Guisheng Chairman and CEO of Beijing 3DP Technology Inc.

Executive Director of Powder Metallurgy Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, Deputy Director of Expert Committee, Director of 3D Printing Professional Technical Committee, Deputy Director of Group Standard Committee, Deputy Director of Powder Metallurgy Committee of China Materials and Testing Group Standard Committee, Expert Member of National Additive Manufacturing Standardization Technical Committee, Expert Member of China Additive Manufacturing Industry Alliance, Anhui Spring Valley 3D Printing Intelligent Equipment Industry Technology Research Institute President, member of Shenzhen Association of Science and Technology, 2018 Chinese economic news figure. He was the managing director of a joint venture in China with the Stanley Group, a Fortune 500 company, and later promoted to president of the Eastern Hemisphere. He was the president of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1991 with a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, and was one of the first international Ph.D.s in additive manufacturing.

A Prof. Xiaogang Liu,Wuhan University of Technology, China

Xiaogang Liu acquired his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, and is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. He has chaired two scientific research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and his academic outputs include academic papers, invention patents and software copyrights in the fields of Contact Mechanics, Intelligent Manufacturing, Mechanical Vibration and Electromechanical Control etc. As the leader of a provincial teaching and research project about mechanical manufacturing, he summarised these academic outputs into monographs to integrate research and education, and was recognized as Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Currently, he is an assessment expert of the national Natural Science Foundation of China, a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, an expert of the high-tech industry in Wuhan, and was awarded the “T A Stewart-Dyer Prize/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize” by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London. 

Speech Title: Investigation of Squeal Noise based on Mode Coupling and Negative Damping Theory

A Prof. Hongtao Tang, Wuhan University of Technology

Hongtao Tang Associate Professor/doctoral supervisor of Wuhan University of Technology, deputy director of the Department of Industrial Engineering. In recent years, he is mainly engaged in digital design, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent optimization and application in manufacturing industry (automotive, hydraulic cylinder, mold, casting and other industries); developed digital design software applicable to automotive, hydraulic cylinder, mold, casting and other industries, developed intelligent manufacturing PLM/ERP/MES industrial software, which has been applied in many companies in different industries and achieved great economic benefits. Received one second prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress (ranked 2/10). He has presided over 2 national natural science funds and 2 youth funds, and more than 20 horizontal projects with a total funding of more than 8 million. He has published more than 60 academic papers, including more than 20 SCI papers, one English monograph, 19 soft books, and 13 invention patents. He is a reviewer of more than 30 international journals such as IEEE, IJPR, JCLP, CAIE, JIM, ASOC, COR, etc. He has been awarded excellent paper award 4 times and Kenote speaker report 5 times. He is a reviewer of industrial intelligent transformation, industrial internet and digital economy for Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Economic and Information Technology.

Prof. Anand_Nayyar, Duy Tan University

Dr. Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh Bhagat University in 2017 in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks and Swarm Intelligence. He is currently working in Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam. A Certified Professional with 75+ Professional certificates from CISCO, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Beingcert, EXIN, GAQM, Cyberoam and many more. Published more than 350 Research Papers in various National & International Conferences, International Journals (Scopus/SCI/SCIE/SSCI Indexed) with High Impact Factor. Member of more than 50+ Associations as Senior and Life Member and also acting as ACM Distinguished Speaker. He has authored/co-authored cum Edited 25+  Books of Computer Science. Associated with more than 500 International Conferences as Programme Committee/Chair/Advisory Board/Review Board member. He has 5 Australian Patents to his credit in the area of Wireless Communications and Artificial Intelligence. He is currently working in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, MANETS, Swarm Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cyber Security, Network Simulation, Wireless Communications. Awarded 27+ Awards for Teaching and Research—Young Scientist, Best Scientist, Young Researcher Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, Excellence in Teaching and many more . He is acting as Editor-in-Chief of IGI-Global, USA Journal titled “International Journal of Smart Vehicles and Smart Transportation (IJSVST)”.