| Prof. Xichun LuoUniversity of Strathclyde, UK Speech Title: Manufacturing III and Atomic and Close-to-Atomic Scale Manufacturing Xichun Luo is a Professor in Ultra Precision Manufacturing, Technical Director of Centre for Precision Manufacturing at the University of Strathclyde, UK. His research interests include ultra-precision machining, micro, nano, atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing. Prof. Luo won International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) Scientist Medal in 2024 and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) 2015 Ludwig Mond Prize for research and development of novel digital tools for micro & nanomanufacturing. He has over 270 publications and four patents. Prof. Luo is an elected Fellow of the International Society for Nanomanufacturing, International Academy of Engineering and Technology, International Association of Advanced Materials. He is an Associate Editor for Proceedings of IMechE Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Journal of Micromanufacturing, Manufacturing Review and Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, and an editorial board member for Micromachines and International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing. |
| Assoc. Prof. Rui FengShanghai Jiao Tong University, China Speech Title: Superior high-temperature strength in a supersaturated refractory high-entropy alloy Tenure-track Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Research interests focus on the design and fabrication of advanced alloys for extreme environments, metal additive manufacturing, and neutron/synchrotron scattering. In recent years, he has published over 70 SCI papers, including Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia, and npj Computational Materials, with citations more than 7,000 citations within the past five years. |
| Assoc. Prof. Chi MaChongqing University, China Speech Title: Key Technologies of Thermal Characteristic Regulation and Thermal Error Compensation for High-Speed Precision Machine Tools Ma Chi received his Ph.D. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is currently an Associate Professor and Supervisor of Master & Doctoral Students at Chongqing University, where he completed his postdoctoral research. He also serves as a Peer Review Expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and a Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (English Edition) and Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Science and Technology (JAMST).Over the past five years, he has presided over 10 national-level research projects, including topics under the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the General Program and Young Scientists Fund of the NSFC, and sub-projects of National Major Science and Technology Projects. He has also participated in 6 key research initiatives, covering the National Science and Technology Major Project on Aero-engines and Gas Turbines, the National Defense *73 Project, the Key Program of the NSFC, the National Science and Technology Major Project (04 Program) on High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment, and the National Key Research and Development Program. In the same period, he has published or had accepted more than 50 SCI-indexed papers as the first or corresponding author in leading journals in the field of CNC equipment. He is the author of 1 English monograph, holds over 30 granted national invention patents, and has completed 1 scientific and technological achievement appraisal, which has been officially recognized as reaching the domestic leading and internationally advanced level. |
| Assoc. Prof. Heng ZhangUniversity of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Speech Title: Research on Optimization Design Methods for Composite Structures with Powder Particle Damping Heng Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, and a supervisor of master's and doctoral students. He is a Shanghai Magnolia Talent and a "Zhiyuan Scholar" at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He serves as a council member of the Shanghai Society of Vibration Engineering; a young committee member of the Mechanical Design Branch and the Additive Manufacturing Technology Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society; and a member of the Committee on Micro-geometric Design and Manufacturing of the China Graphics Society. He received the Young Talent Award from the Shanghai Society of Vibration Engineering. He has led two National Natural Science Foundation of China projects (General Program and Young Scientists Fund) and one General Program of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; was selected for the Pujiang Program under the Shanghai Magnolia Talent Program; and has participated in and led structural optimization design research within projects including the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the "Huiyan Initiative" of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission. His research focuses on integrated "material-structure-function" design of composite structures. He has published more than 40 papers in journals including Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, Materials & Design, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, Composite Structures, Applied Mathematical Modelling, and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME), and holds more than 10 granted Chinese invention patents. |
