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Prof. Zhengdong Liu
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
CAE(the Chinese Academy of Engineering), China
ZhengdongLiu presided over the creation of heat-resistant seamless tube metallurgy technology for China's ultra-supercritical coal-fired power station, the construction of advanced pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant nuclear island high-quality large forging metallurgy technology, the research and development of China's submarine nuclear power system, key steel manufacturing technology, and large-scale engineering applications. He has published three monographs, participated in the compilation of six works and nine standards, and published more than 300 papers. It has won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014 and the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2017 (both ranked first), 2 provincial and ministerial level special prizes (1 ranked first), 5 provincial and ministerial level first prizes (3 ranked first), etc. 38 invention patents were authorized.
Prof. Zhengdong Liu
RAE Foreign Full Member (Academician)
South China University of Technology, China
Liejun Li, a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at the South China University of Technology, stands as a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, acknowledged with special government allowances by the State Council of China. His leadership spans multiple domains, holding prominent roles as the Co-Chairman of the Global Doctoral Innovation Community, President of the Guangdong Dr. Council for the Promotion of Innovation and Development, Chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Metal New Materials Industry Alliance, Chairman of the Guangzhou Advanced Materials Alliance of CAST Member Societies, Executive President of the Guangzhou Institution of Engineers, and Chairman of the Guangzhou Metal Society, among various other positions of influence. With an illustrious career spanning over 30 years, Li has made substantial contributions to the research and industrialization of advanced metal materials. His extensive experience encompasses over 20 years in technical research, production management, and scientific management within two major enterprises. Throughout his tenure, he has achieved a series of innovative outcomes that have significantly impacted the field. Li's remarkable contributions have earned him recognition through 16 scientific and technological awards at both national and provincial levels. His inventive spirit is evident in 32 authorized invention patents, complemented by a repertoire of 306 published papers, substantially shaping China's new materials industry. His dedication and achievements have been honored through various accolades, including the Guangdong Annual Contribution Award, the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award, recognition as the Scientific Chinese of the Year, the "My Favorite Mentor" accolade at the South China University of Technology, and the esteemed Nanshan Award for Scientific and Technological Innovation in Guangzhou.
Prof. Ruxu Du
Fellow ofthe Canadian Academy of Engineering
Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canada
Ruxu Du holds distinguished positions across several prestigious engineering academies and serves as the Chief Scientist at Guangdong HealthTech BioMedTech Co., Ltd., specializing in precision manufacturing. He is recognized as a high-level national talent and a leading talent for science and technology in Guangdong Province. He has earned Fellowships from renowned organizations such as the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. His academic journey commenced with a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1989, followed by an illustrious career spanning 28 years across esteemed institutions such as the University of Windsor in Canada, the University of Miami in the United States, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Du's impactful roles in China encompass founding directorship at the Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and founding dean of the School of Intelligent Engineering at the South China University of Technology. His scholarly contributions are extensive, boasting a publication record of over 500 papers in international journals and conferences, authoring seven monographs, and holding a portfolio of more than 100 patents. Dr. Du's outstanding work has been recognized with awards for exceptional papers at international conferences, totaling 21 prestigious honors. He has also chaired more than 20 international conferences and serves actively as an associate editor or committee member for eight leading international academic journals. Dr. Du's impact extends beyond academia. Over the years, he has spearheaded over 30 research projects across various countries (the United States, Canada, and China ), securing project funding exceeding 120 million RMB as the principal investigator. His pioneering work in precision engineering encompasses diverse areas such as precision medical device design and manufacturing, precision forming technology, and mechanical clock and watch design and manufacturing technology. Under his guidance, Dr. Du's team has achieved significant milestones, developing multiple promising products, with nearly ten projects successfully transitioning to industrialization. These endeavors have been instrumental in advancing domestic medical device manufacturing technology, contributing significantly to the field's growth.
Prof. Xianyou Wang
RAE Foreign Full Member (Academician)
Xiangtan University, China
Xianyou Wang, born in September 1962, is an esteemed member of the Communist Party of China and one of the first cohort of second-level professors in Hunan Province. He serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xiangtan University, boasting an impressive international standing with affiliations that include being a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in the United Kingdom. Notably, he ranks among the top 2% of leading global scientists at Stanford University and has received nine consecutive recognitions as a "Highly Cited Chinese Scholar." Wang's exceptional contributions have merited special allowances from the State Council of China. His extensive involvement spans various key roles within academia and professional societies. Wang serves as the Deputy Director of the China Energy Storage and Power Battery Special Committee and holds memberships in the China Electrochemical Society and directorships in the China Solid State Ionics Society. He also serves as Chairman of the Expert Committee of the Hunan Battery Industry Association and Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of the Hunan New Materials Association. Additionally, Wang takes on pivotal leadership roles as the Director of the "National International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for New Energy Equipment and Energy Storage Materials and Devices," the "National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Key Materials Preparation Technology of New Energy Storage Batteries," and the "Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion." Moreover, he assumes the chief editorship of theUniversal Journal of Carbon Research (UJCR) and holds positions on the editorial boards of over ten domestic and international academic journals, including Battery, Electroplating, and Finishing, the Journal of Carbon Research, Energy Materials, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy. His illustrious career has been adorned with more than ten provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards, including the 12th China Invention Patent Excellence Award and the Second Prize for Technological Invention in Hunan Province. Wang's scholarly contributions are profound, with over 540 authored papers, among which more than 520 are indexed in SCI. His inventive spirit is evident through applications for 32 national invention patents, of which 28 were successfully granted. Notably, he co-authored China's inaugural monograph on lithium-ion batteries, titled Lithium-ion Batteries.
Prof. Xinping Zhang
South China University of Technology, China
He is currently a professor/doctoral supervisor of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology (recruiting students in two disciplines of materials processing and integrated circuits) and the director of the Guangdong Province Electronic Packaging Materials and Reliability Engineering Technology Research Center. In 1996, he was sponsored by the internationally renowned Humboldt Foundation in Germany and worked at the Technical University of Berlin for two years. From 1998 to 2004, he was employed as a senior researcher and expert in the Center for Advanced Materials and Damage Evaluation of Materials and Structures at the University of Sydney, Australia, and was the leader of the research team. In 2004, he returned to China and was employed as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the South China University of Technology as a high-level imported talent. He founded the research groups "Smart Materials and Electronic Packaging" and "Guangdong Province Electronic Packaging Materials and Reliability Engineering Technology Research Center" at the South China University of Technology. In 2004, he was selected as the first batch of "New Century Talents" of the Ministry of Education, and in 2006, he was awarded the Humboldt Foundation (Resumption) cooperative research and visit to Germany. He was an honorary research fellow and visiting professor at the University of Sydney, a visiting professor at Ruhr-Bochum University in Germany, and an adjunct professor at Sun Yat-sen University.
Prof. Guangzhao Zhang
South China University of Technology, China
He received his bachelor's degree from Sichuan University (1987), his PhD degree from Fudan University (1998), and his postdoctoral degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999–2001) and the University of Massachusetts (2001–2002). 2002–2010 Professor, University of Science and Technology of China. Since 2010, he has been a professor at the South China University of Technology. He is a special professor of "Changjiang Scholars" of the Ministry of Education, a winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and the chief scientist of the major research plan project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Member of the Standing Committee on International Marine Materials Conservation Research (COIPM), Deputy Director of the Polymer Materials and Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research.
Prof. Tongguang Zhai
Shandong University, China
He graduated from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in metal physics. In 1994, he received a doctorate degree in materials science from Oxford University, and won the American Nature Foundation Jieqing Award. He has been a tenured professor at the University of Kentucky. Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 90 SCI papers.
Prof. Mingxin Huang
University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Mingxin Huang received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his PhD in materials science from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a research engineer at ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, in Metzieremets, France. His research work at ArcelorMittal focuses on the development of new advanced steels for automotive lightweights. Professor Wong joined the University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in 2010 and was promoted to associate professor in 2016 and full professor in 2019. Professor Huang's research focuses on two areas: (1) the relationship between the microstructure and properties of advanced steels and alloys and the fundamental principles of phase transformation; and (2) the development of lightweight materials for automotive applications. His research work consists of both simulation and experimentation. Prof. Huang has published more than 100 SCI journal papers in top international journals of science, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, JMPS, IJP, and other disciplines. Professor Huang is also a Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education.
Prof. Shilu Dai
South China University of Technology, China
He presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation project (surface project), 1 Guangdong Natural Science Foundation project (surface project), 1 Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan project (major project of industry-university-research collaborative innovation), and 1 Special fund for basic scientific research business expenses of central universities (key project). As the project leader, he has completed 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects (1 Youth Science Foundation, 1 Sino-UK Cooperation and Exchange project), 2 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation projects (1 special funding project, 1 surface project), 1 industry-university-research project of the Ministry of Education of Guangdong Province, and 3 special funds for basic scientific research of central universities (2 key projects). 1 surface item).
Prof. Florian Vogel
Hainan University, China
Florian Vogel, Ph.D., M.S./Ph.D. supervisor, is a member of the Piemi Center for Electron Microscopy at Hainan University, and a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Foreign Outstanding Young Scholars. He has accumulated decades of research experience in the field of high-resolution characterization of 3D atomic probes and transmission electron microscopy, as well as in the study of high-temperature alloy materials, and was the head of the 3D Atomic Probe (APT) Laboratory at the Helmholtz Union of Science-Berlin Institute for Materials and Energy Research. He has published more than 40 SCI papers, including more than 10 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author in Nature Communication, Acta Materialia, Materials & Design and other international journals. He has presided over three national projects, four provincial projects, and participated in one international cooperative research on three-dimensional atom probe (APT). He has also participated in one international cooperative research on three-dimensional atomic probe (APT).
Dr. Gaomou Li
Guangdong Advanced intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute, China
Senior Engineer, Chief Expert of Guangdong Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing Institute, General Manager of Aske Logistics System Co., Ltd.., External Expert of Hong Kong Productivity Council, Senior Lecturer of GAC Toyota, Honda, Ningde Times, Da Changjiang Group, Toshiba, Huawei, and other well-known enterprises at home and abroad. Engaged in intelligent manufacturing, production logistics management research and development work for more than 20 years, is a well-known factory intelligent system overall solution provider and solution, long-term for Toyota, Honda, Dongfeng Nissan, and other automobile companies to provide logistics optimization and improvement services. In recent years, the intelligent factory designed and constructed for many domestic and foreign enterprises, such as Ningde Times, Toshiba Baiyun, GAC Honda Parts, Toyota Motor, GAC Aixin, and Da Changjiang River, has become the benchmark of domestic automobile intelligent factories, has created significant economic benefits for enterprises, and has achieved many innovative results. The relevant results have applied for more than 30 national patents.
