General Chair
Prof. Manoj GUPTA
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director designate of Materials Science and Engineering Initiative at NUS, Singapore. He is currently among top 0.6% researchers as per Stanford’ List, among Top 1% Scientist of the World Position by The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and among 1% among scientists as per ResearchGate. His international rank among Materials Researchers in World is currently at 1305. To his credit are: (i) Disintegrated Melt Deposition technique and (ii) Hybrid Microwave Sintering technique, an energy efficient solid-state processing method to synthesize alloys/micro/nanocomposites. He has published over 650 peer reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents and two Trade Secrets. His current h-index is 79, citations greater than 23500 and reads greater than 100,000 (Research Gate). He has also co-authored eight books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF - USA. He is Editor-in-chief/Editor of twelve international peer reviewed journals. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India as a visiting researcher, professor and chair professor.
Program Committee Chairs
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Bingang Xu is a full Professor in School of Fashion and Textiles at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He serves now as the Chair of Research Postgraduate Programme Committee and Deputy Chair of Research Committee in the School. Prof. Xu has published over 200 book chapters, journal and conference papers, and also holds 12 granted patents. His research interests include smart and sustainable wearables, wearable electronics, energy harvesting, energy conversion and storage, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Prof. Xu's recent work on sustainable and energy materials and computer vision model has been published in high-impact SCI journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Matter, Nano Energy, Materials Today, Energy Storage Materials, Nano-Micro Letters and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. As the Principal Investigator, Prof. Xu has led his team to consecutively win Gold Awards with the Congratulations of Jury in International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
University of Macau, China
Dr. Kwun Nam Hui is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau. He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2009 and previously held academic appointments at Pusan National University before joining the University of Macau in 2015. His research focuses on advanced electrode and catalytic materials for energy storage and conversion, including lithium–sulfur, potassium-ion, sodium-ion, and aluminum-ion batteries, as well as supercapacitors and electrocatalytic systems. He has published over 275 SCI-indexed papers in leading journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Energy Materials, with an h-index of 69 and more than 15,500 citations. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier) since 2021, Dr. Hui is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, serves as Editor-in-Chief of three international journals, and holds over 50 patents.
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Dalian University of Technology, China
Baoguo Han is currently a professor of civil engineering in the Dalian University of Technology, China. He was invited to the University of Minnesota and has worked as a visiting research scholar there for three years. His main research interests include cement and concrete materials, nano-engineered cementitious composites, smart materials and structures, multifunctional concrete, fiber reinforced concrete, and ultra-high performance concrete. He has published five authored books and one book video, three edited books, 17 book chapters, and more than 200 technical papers. The citations and h-index/i10-index in Google are 10734 and 54/156, respectively. The research outcomes have been reported as research highlights more than 20 times. He has held more than 20 authorized national invention patents and was awarded the first prize of Natural Science by the Ministry of Education of China. Professor Han is a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials, and has served as a member in more than 30 scientific professional societies and as a reviewer for more than 150 books and journals. He has been awarded Top Peer Reviewer in the Global Peer Review Awards powered by Publons in both Materials Science and Cross-Field, listed in Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier, and named in the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University.
Publicity Chair
University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Lim is the Associate Professor in the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) at the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He is the module convenor for Design and Manufacture 1, and Group Design and Make modules. His research interests include laser-based micro/nano fabrication technology, laser materials processing, development of semiconductor processing technologies, advanced manufacturing techniques, advanced materials synthesis and photonics-related research.