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
Prof. Bingang Xu
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.
Assoc. Prof. Yam Fong Kwong
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Fong Kwong Yam is an associate professor at the School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. He is also the program chairman for engineering physics at USM. He earned his PhD in solid state physics from USM and is a specialist in condensed matter physics. He has been an engineer with Seiko Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and a research officer and then a lecturer and researcher at USM. He has authored or coauthored 1 book, 2 book chapters, and more than 250 research papers in journals of international repute.
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Prof. Baoguo Han
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.
Prof. Henry Hu
University of Windsor, Canada
Dr. Hongfa (Henry) Hu is a tenured full Professor at Department of Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering, University of Windsor. He was a senior research engineer at Ryobi Die Casting (USA), and a Chief Metallurgist at Meridian Technologies, and a Research Scientist at Institute of Magnesium Technology. His publications (over 150 papers) are in the area of magnesium alloys, composites, metal casting, computer modelling, and physical metallurgy. He was a Key Reader of the Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, a Committee Member of the Grant Evaluation Group for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation (USA) and Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly. He has served as a member or chairman of various committees for CIM-METSOC, AFS, and USCAR. His recent fundamental research is focussed on transport phenomena and mechanisms of solidification, phase transformation and dissolution kinetics. His applied research has included development of magnesium automotive applications, cost-effective casting processes for novel composites, and control systems for casting processes. His work on light alloys and composites has attracted the attention of several automotive companies.
Publicity Chair
Dr. Hongfei Liu
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Dr. Hongfei Liu is a senior scientist at IMRE/A*STAR. He received his B.E in Semiconductor Physics and Devices from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996 and PhD in Condensed-Matter Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. His research is focused on deposition, treatment, and characterization of solid-state materials.
Assoc. Prof. Lim Chin Seong
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.
Local Chair
Asst. Prof. Liang Yu
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Liang Yu is a Assistant Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He received his B.E from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015 and PhD from the Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 2019. His research is focused on Transmission and Drive, Mechanical Dynamics, Mechanical Structure Strength, etc.Program Committees
Prof. Shifeng GUO, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Hatem Mrad, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
Prof. Sinin Hamdan, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Asst. Prof. Juntian Qu, Tsinghua University, China
Assoc. Prof. Yam Fong Kwong, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Miaolei Zhou, Jilin University, China
Assoc. Prof. Ching Yern Chee, University, Malaysia
Dr. Madis Ratassepp, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Prof. Jung-Chang Wang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Dr. Łukasz Breńkacz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Hailong Fan, Hokkaido University, Japan
Asst. Prof. Shieh-Kung Huang, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Derek Ho, City University of Hong Kong, China
Assoc. Prof. S. Joseph Antony, University of Leeds, UK
Prof. Guoqing Jing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Chamil Abeykoon, University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Marco Bonopera, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Jiantao Liu, Southwest Jiantong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Varun Thangamani, University of Southampton Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Changming Liu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Anna Szymczyk, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Assoc. Prof. Chunlei Li, South China University of Technology, China
Asst. Prof. Lin Dong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Nurul Hilwa Mohd Zini, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Yanhu Zhang, Jiangsu University, China
Assoc. Prof. Hülya ÖZTÜRK DOĞAN, Atatürk University, Turkey
Prof. Zhixin Huang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Prof. Yan Zhuge, University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Yaoming Zhang, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Jianhui Liu, Harvard University
Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Can, Bartın University, Turkey
Assoc. Prof. Zhigang Zhang, Chongqing University, China
Dr. Riyadh Al-Ameri, Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Benliang Zhu, South China University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Melih Soner Celiktas, Ege University,Turkey
Prof. Zhengchun Peng, Shenzhen University, China
Assoc. Prof. Misbah Mirza, The Women University Multan, Pakistan
Assoc. Prof. Tianyu Li, Jilin University, China
Prof. Chih-Chieh Hsu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Weijie Zhang, University of Virginia, USA
Prof. Qiangqiang Zhang, Lanzhou University, China
Prof. Giuseppe Ciaburro, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Prof. Yang Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Dawei Zhao, South Ural State University, Russia
Assoc. Prof. Xiaogang Guo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Ferdi AKMAN, Bingöl University, Turkey
Asst. Prof. Yuanjing Lin, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Jiaming Zhu, Shandong University, China
Dr. Chih-Ta Tsai, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Assoc. Prof. Gao Ma, Hunan University, China
Dr. Koorosh Gharehbaghi, RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Shaojun Chen, Shenzhen University, China
Prof. Junhui Hu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
Assoc. Prof. LOW Siew Chun, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Yasser Reda El Ghazouly, Canal High Institute of Engineering and Technology, Egypt
Prof. Haibin Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China
Prof. Raul Duarte Salgueiral Gomes Campilho, Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto (ISEP), Portugal
Prof. Yuan-Chang Liang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Dr. Ali Hadigheh, The University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Tariq Masood, University of Strathclyde, UK