Invited Speakers
(Alphabetically ordered by last name)
Plenary Lectures
Plenary Lectures
Lecture Title: Nonlinear Vibrations of Shells: Classical Problems, Nonlinear Damping and Application to Vascular Biomechanics
Prof. Marco Amabili
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
Born in Italy, he received his PhD in Bologna. Professor Amabili holds the Canada Research Chair in Vibrations at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in 2020, the 2021 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Read More
Lecture Title: Recent Development of Discrete Variable Topology Optimization
Prof. Gengdong Cheng
Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China
Professor Gengdong CHENG graduated from Peking University in 1964 and received his Ph.D. from Department of Solid Mechanics, the Technical University of Denmark in 1980. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1995 and served as President of Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, during the period 1995-2006. Read More
Lecture Title: Smart Sensing Systems for Ubiquitous- Healthcare – AI is a Key Enabler
Prof. Mohamed Jamal Deen
McMaster University, Canada
Dr. M. Jamal Deen is Distinguished University Professor (highest rank of a Professor in Canada), Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology, and Director of the Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory, McMaster University. As an educator, he won the Ham Education Medal from IEEE Canada, the McMaster University President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, and MSU Macademics’ Lifetime Achievement Award for his exceptional dedication to teaching and significant contribution to student life, the community at large, and academia. Read More
Lecture Title: Recent Advances on Extreme Mechanics of Metallic Materials
Prof. Huiling Duan
College of Engineering, Peking University, China
Dr. Huiling Duan is Chang Jiang Chair Professor, and Dean of College of Engineering at Peking University. Her area of expertise lies in the interface mechanics of complex media, including mechanics of heterogeneous and complex materials, microstructural design and fabrication methodology of functional composites and advanced materials, and interfacial interaction between fluids and solids with bio-inspired functional surface microstructures. Read More
Lecture Title: Hydrovoltaics
Prof. Wanlin Guo
Institute of Nano Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dr. Wanlin GUO, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor in mechanics and nanoscience, founder and director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education and the Institute of Nanoscience of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His current research focuses on intelligent nano materials and devices, novel conception and technology for efficient energy conversion, molecular physical mechanics for neuronal signaling and molecular biomimics, as well as strength and safety of aircraft and engine. Read More
Lecture Title: How to Effectively Program on Cloud System? Practices and Experiences
Prof. Yi Pan
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Foreign Member of Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of Institute of Engineering Technology and Fellow of Royal Society for Public Health.
Yi Pan was selected as a member of the American Academy of Medicine and Biological Engineering for his outstanding contributions in the field of bioinformatics. He designed and developed many bioinformatics algorithms and tools, which strongly promoted the development of biology and medical science. Read More
Lecture Title: Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Grass Checkerboards
Prof. Xiaojing Zheng
Xidian University, China
Xiaojing Zheng, female, PhD, professor in Mechanics, academician of CAS and TWAS, director of the Research Center for Applied Mechanics, Xidian University, the former vice-chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology. Currently, she is members of TWAS Membership Advisory Committee in Engineering Sciences and the ICTAM Congress Committee, the editor-in-chief of ‘Acta Mechanica Sinica’, associate editor-in-chief of ‘Flow’ (JFM sister journal), etc. Read More
Lecture Title: Protection Mechanism and Theoretical Model on Creature Vulnerated from Blast Shock Wave
Prof. Zhuo Zhuang
School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Zhuo ZHUANG, Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University. Vice President of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). Ph.D., University College Dublin, Ireland, 1995. Honorary Doctor Degree (EngD), Swansea University, UK, 2017. Chief scientist of national fundamental research projects of China. Read More
Semi-Plenary Lectures
Semi-Plenary Lectures
Lecture Title: Wrong and Right Underground Structures for CO2 Storage
Prof. Boyun Guo
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Dr. Boyun Guo is the Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems at the Energy Institute of Louisiana and Chevron-Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Previously, he worked as a TechTEAM leader for EPS Americas. Guo’s research interest is in development of unconventional hydrocarbon resources and CO2 underground-storage. Read More
Lecture Title: Nature Society Understanding and Safety Pre-warning
Prof. Ruimin Hu
Xidian University, China
Ruimin Hu is currently a Professor and Executive Dean of Hangzhou Institute of Technology in Xidian University, as the expert who enjoys special allowances from the State Council, a Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and a Senior Member of IEEE. His current research interests include multimedia network communication, security and surveillance technology, and big data analytics. Read More
Lecture Title: The Mixed FEM for Thermoelectric Problems with the Thomson Effect
Prof. Jan Sladek
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Dr. Jan Sladek, researcher worker at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, received his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics at the Institute of Construction of Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia in 1981. Now, he is in the position of the Head of the Department of Mechanics at the same institute. He is also Full Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department of Slovak Technical University and he was also President of Slovak Society for Mechanics. Read More
Lecture Title: Nanoscale Multiphase Flow and Its Applications
Prof. Chengzhen Sun
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Chengzhen Sun received the B.Eng. degree in thermal engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in 2014. As a Ph.D student, he studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in MIT as a visiting student from 2012 to 2013. Read More
Lecture Title: Recent Challenges and Advances in Flow Simulation of Unconventional Tight Reservoirs: From Models to Algorithms
Prof. Shuyu Sun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Shuyu Sun is a Professor of Earth Science and Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Energy Resource and Petroleum Engineering, Director of Computation Transport Phenomena Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is a founding faculty member of KAUST since 2009. He holds or held a number of adjunct faculty positions across the world, including Adjunct Faculty in Clemson University, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China University of Petroleum and China University of Geosciences. Read More
Lecture Title: Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Composites Subjected to Quasi-static/dynamic Loadings
Prof. Weifu Sun
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Since Dr Sun was awarded PhD degree from University of New South Wales (Australia) in
December of 2012, he subsequently pursued postdoctoral training at the University of New
South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Birmingham and University College London,
prior to joining Beijing Institute of Technology in 2018 as a full Professor. Read More
Lecture Title: Galerkin Finite Block Method in Elasticity
Prof. Pihua Wen
Nanchang University, China
Prof P.H. Wen has been involved in applied mathematics and development of numerical methods for more than four decades. Since 1984, he has established and maintained an excellent international track record. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals and 20 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings in fracture mechanics, solid/fluid mechanics and three books. Read More
Lecture Title: A Unified Phase-field Theory for Brittle and Cohesive Fracture in Solids: Purely-mechanical and Multi-physical Scenarios
Prof. Jian-Ying Wu
South China University of Technology, China
J. Y. Wu, Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation at South China University of Technology; Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Subtropic Building and City Science, China.
Main research interests: Constitutive Modeling of Engineering Materials, Damage and Fracture Mechanics, Read More
Main research interests: Constitutive Modeling of Engineering Materials, Damage and Fracture Mechanics, Read More
Lecture Title: A Unified Theory of Bubble Dynamics and Its Applications
Prof. A-Man Zhang
Harbin Engineering University, China
A-Man Zhang, Professor and Doctoral Tutor at Harbin Engineering University, Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program, Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National 'Ten Thousand Talents Program' Leading Talents and Leader of the Fluid-Structure Interaction Dynamics Research Team. Main research fields: bubble dynamics, fluid-structure interaction. Read More