Plenary Speakers
Lecture Title: 3D Printing of Tomorrow: Further Development Trends in Additive Manufacturing
Professor Chua Chee Kai is the Associate Provost for Research and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also the Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education, Entrepreneurship and Research at SUTD (CHEERS). Prof Chua, a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering is an active contributor to the Additive Manufacturing (AM or 3D Printing) field for over 34 years. His current research area is in 3D Printing & Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacturing. He is the foremost expert in Singapore in this area and was awarded the prestigious International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award in 2018. Prof Chua is also the most published and most cited scientist in “Rapid Prototyping / Additive Manufacturing” (3D Printing) according to the Web of Science. He has published in more than 500 international journals, conference papers, books, book chapters and patents. Prof Chua has also obtained more than S$60 M grants, including as PI, S$42 M for the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, S$9.9 M for the Nanyang Additive Manufacturing Centre and S$5.5 M for the Institute for Sports Research. He is currently the Editorial board member of International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Rapid Prototyping Journal & Journal of Materials Processing Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Virtual & Physical Prototyping, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Bioprinting. He was previously from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he was a Full Professor and previous Chair of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He was also the Executive Director of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing from 2014 to 2019. He joined SUTD as Head of Pillar for Engineering Product Development (EPD) from 2019 – 2022.
Lecture Title: Dynamics of Collective Cells and Biological Tissues
Xi-Qiao Feng is a Chang Jiang Chair Professor at Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. He earned a Ph.D. degree on Solid Mechanics in 1995 from Tsinghua University. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in Technical University of Darmstadt and Delft University of Technology. He rejoined Tsinghua University as an associate professor in 1999 and was promoted to a full professor in 2001.
Currently, he serves as a vice president of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), the secretary-general of Beijing International Center of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (BICTAM), an editor-in-chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, and an executive member of International Council of Fracture (ICF). He also serves as an editorial/advisory board member of more than 15 other journals such as Acta Mechanica Sinica, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and International Journal of Damage Mechanics. In addition, he was the secretary-general of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM) during 2010-2014, head of Department of Engineering Mechanics of Tsinghua University during 2011-2020, director of Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering (IBME) during 2006-2020.
His current interests include biomechanics, damage and fracture mechanics. He has authored and co-authored three monographs and about 500 international journal papers, which have received more than 23000 citations in Google. Selected Feng’s honors include the National Prize of Science and Technology of China (2019), the Award of Science and Technology for Young Scientists of China (2007), Distinguished Young Scholars Award of NSFC (2005), Young Scientist Award of Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (2004), Outstanding Teacher Award of Beijing (2021), Award for Best Doctoral Theses of China (1999), etc.
Lecture Title: From Mechanics of Materials to Mechanomaterials: The Ever Broadening Bridge Between Mechanics and Materials
Huajian Gao received his B.S. degree from Xian Jiaotong University in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from Harvard in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He served on the faculty of Stanford from 1988-2002, as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research from 2001-2006 and as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown from 2006-2019. After becoming the Walter H. Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown in 2019, he went on to serve as one of the Distinguished University Professors at Nanyang Technological University and Scientific Director of the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore until the beginning of 2024. At present, he is the Xinghua University Professor and Director of the Mechano-X Institute at Tsinghua University.
Professor Gao’s research has been focused on the understanding of basic principles that control mechanical properties and behaviors of materials in both engineering and biological systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the flagship journal in his field. His list of honors includes elections as Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea, as well as numerous academic awards including the Timoshenko Medal, Rodney Hill Prize and ASME Medal, the three highest lifetime achievement awards in his field.
Professor Gao’s research has been focused on the understanding of basic principles that control mechanical properties and behaviors of materials in both engineering and biological systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the flagship journal in his field. His list of honors includes elections as Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea, as well as numerous academic awards including the Timoshenko Medal, Rodney Hill Prize and ASME Medal, the three highest lifetime achievement awards in his field.
Lecture Title: Problem Independent Machine Learning (PIML) -Based Large Scale Structural Analysis and Optimization
Professor Xu Guo, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is from the Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China. He is now the Vice President of International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the President of the Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics. He also serves as the Associate Editor of ASME-Journal of Mechanical Design and one of the members of the editorial board of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
Xu Guo has been working in the field of computational mechanics, solid mechanics and structural optimization for more than 25 years. He has published more than 200 SCI papers in renowned scientific journals including JMPS, CMAME, IJNME, IJSS, PRL, Nature Material and Science. His works have been cited intensively and extended in various ways to solve different kinds of mechanics and structural optimization problems. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, including the ASSMO Award, ICACM Award, etc. He is also the Plenary/Semi-Plenary speaker in numerous prestigious international conferences/workshops/symposiums, including the 2016 World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM).
Lecture Title: Shape Programmable Three-Dimensional Mesostructures and Functional Devices
Yonggang Huang is the Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering (50%), Civil and Environmental Engineering (50%), and Materials Science and Engineering (0%) at Northwestern University. He is interested in mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and mechanically guided deterministic 3D assembly. He has published >700 papers in journals, including 14 in Science and 7 in Nature, and is a highly cited researcher in engineering (2009), in materials science (since 2014) and in physics (2018). He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, US National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Society (London), Royal Society of Canada, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and three other academies in Europe and Canada. He has received awards for undergraduate teaching and advising at every university he has taught. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Mechanics Reviews (Impact Factor 14.3), on the Editorial Board of PNAS, and co-Editor-in-Chief for two other international journals. He was the President of the Society of Engineering Science (2014), the Chairman of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (2019-2020), and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Mechanics (2012-2022).
Lecture Title: Iso-Structure Induced Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence
Liu Bin is Deputy President (Research and Technology) and a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to her current appointment, she served as Senior Vice Provost (Faculty & Institutional Development) from 2022 to 2023, Vice President (Research and Technology) from 2019 to 2021 and Head of the NUS Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from 2017 to 2021.
Liu Bin is an internationally acclaimed leader in the field of organic functional materials, and is highly recognised for her contributions in polymer chemistry and applications of organic nanomaterials for biomedical, environmental and energy research. Since 2014, she has been named annually among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomas Reuters and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate. She is a prolific researcher with over 450 publications and holds 30 patents with 16 of them licensed to different companies in US, UK, and Asia. In 2014, she co-founded Luminicell, a NUS spin-off company that produces organic luminescent nanoparticles for use in biomedical applications.
She has an impressively extensive list of accolades, including the National Science and Technology Young Scientist Award (2008), the L'Oréal Women in Science National Fellowship (2011), the President’s Technology Award (2016), and the American Chemical Society ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2019). In 2021, she bagged the Kabiller Young Investigator’s Award in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize. She was one of 12 women in the world who received the 2023 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering award.
At NUS, Liu Bin has been instrumental in the development of vibrant innovation clusters across the University’s colleges, faculties, and schools, including the NUS Sustainability Cluster, as well as the strengthening of efforts to build up and develop the University’s talent pool. She is especially passionate about nurturing the next generation of research leaders and encouraging more women to pursue careers in science and engineering.
Lecture Title: The Dual Mesh Control Domain Method: An Alternative to the Finite Element and Finite Volume Methods
Dr. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor, Regents’ Professor, and the holder of the O’Donnell Foundation Chair IV in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Dr. Reddy, an ISI highly-cited researcher, is known for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics through the authorship of a large number of textbooks (25) and journal papers (>800). His pioneering works on the development of shear deformation theories (that bear his name in the literature as the Reddy third-order plate theory and the Reddy layerwise theory) have had a major impact and have led to new research developments and applications. Some of the ideas on shear deformation theories and penalty finite element models of fluid flows have been implemented into commercial finite element computer programs like ABAQUS, NISA, and HyperXtrude. In recent years, Reddy's research has focused on the development of locking-free shell finite elements and nonlocal and non-classical continuum mechanics problems dealing with architected materials and structures and damage and failures in solids.
Lecture Title: Multifunctional Materials for Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies
Federico Rosei (MSc (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”) is Full Professor at the Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes (QC) Canada, where he served as Director (07/2011–03/2019), currently on leave. He held the Canada Research Chair (Junior) in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003–2013) and the Canada Research Chair (Senior) in Nanostructured Materials (2016–2023). Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage. Since March 2023 he holds the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste.
Dr. Rosei’s research interests focus on structure/property relationships in nanomaterials and their use as building blocks in emerging technologies. His research has been supported by multiple funding sources from the Province of Quebec, the Federal Government of Canada as well as international agencies, for a total in excess of M$ 18. He has worked in partnership with over twenty Canadian R&D companies. He is co-inventor of three patents and has published over 485 articles in prestigious international journals (including Science, Nature Phot., Nature Mater., Nature Chem., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Func. Mater., Adv. En. Mat., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, etc.), which have been cited over 25,300 times (H index = 83). He has been invited to speak at over 370 international conferences (50 Keynotes, 30 Plenaries) and has given over 280 seminars and colloquia, over 60 professional development lectures and 50 public lectures in 51 countries on all inhabited continents.
He is Fellow of numerous prestigious national and international societies and academies, including: the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Science, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Foreign), the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science, the World Academy of Ceramics, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, AAAS, the American Ceramic Society, Optica, SPIE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ASM International, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Australian Institute of Physics, the Chinese Chemical Society (Honorary), the Mexican Academy of Engineering (Corresponding), the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (Foreign), Senior Member of IEEE, Global Young Academy (Alumnus) and Member of the Sigma Xi Society.
He has received several awards and honours, including the FQRNT Strategic Professorship (2002–2007), the Tan Chin Tuan visiting Fellowship (NTU 2008), the Senior Gledden Visiting Fellowship (UWA 2009), UWA Professor at Large (2010–2012), a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2001), a F.W. Bessel Award (Humboldt foundation 2011), the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (Royal Society of Canada 2011), the Herzberg Medal (Canadian Association of Physics 2013), the Brian Ives Lectureship (ASM international 2013), the Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry (CSC 2014), the NSERC EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2014), the José Vasconcelos Award for Education (World Cultural Council 2014), IEEE Distinguished Lectureships (NTC 2015–2016, Photonics Society 2020–2022, Electron Devices Society 2022–2024), the Lash Miller Award (ECS 2015), the Chang Jiang Scholar Award (China), the Khwarizmi International Award (Iran), the Recognition for Excellence in Mentorship (American Vacuum Society 2015), the Selby Fellowship (Australian Academy of Sciences 2016), the J.C. Polanyi Award (Canadian Society for Chemistry 2016), the Outstanding Engineer Award (IEEE Canada 2017), the President’s Visiting Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists (Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017), the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship (2018–2020), the Sichuan 1000 talent (short term) award, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award (2018), the Changbai Mountain Friendship Award (2018), the IEEE Montreal Gold Medal (2018), the APS John Wheatley Award (2019), the Blaise Pascal Medal (European Academy of Science 2019), the Guangxi Golden Silkball Friendship Award (2020), the TMS Brimacombe Medal (2021), the Wolfson Fellowship (Royal Society), the Prix Urgel Archambault (ACFAS 2021), the Prix du Quebec “Marie Victorin” (2021), the J.C. Smith Medal (Engineering Institute of Canada 2022), the Premio Nazionale “Gentile da Fabriano” (Associazione Premio Gentile, Italy 2022), the Envoy of People’s Friendship Award (Jiangsu Province, 2022), the Brockhouse Medal (Canadian Association of Physics 2022), the Canadian Light Source – TK Sham Award in Materials Chemistry (CSC 2023), the Spirit of Salam Award (ICTP 2023), a Guggenheim Fellowship in Engineering (2023), Knight of the National Order of Quebec (2023) and the AVS Nanotechnology Recognition Award (2024).
Lecture Title: Recent Progress on Bubble Dynamics
A-Man Zhang is the National Level Distinguished Professor at Harbin Engineering University, leader of Fluid-Structure Interaction Research Team. His main research fields include bubble dynamics and fluid-structure interaction. He has undertaken more than 40 scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and National Natural Science Foundation Projects. He established the unified equation for bubble dynamics, constructed fully coupled gas-liquid-solid dynamic models and methods, led the development of the FSLAB fundamental industrial software for fluid-structure interaction and the construction of a large-scale underwater specialized scientific experimental facility, developed new technologies for efficient energy transfer and protection, and the research achievements have been widely applied. Academic papers are published on renowned journals including Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Journal of Computational Physics, with more than 10,000 citations. Received multiple awards such as the National Innovation Competition Award, the Xplore Prize, Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award, Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, Top 2% of World's Leading Scientists and Highly Cited Scholar of China. Served as editor in chief of Journal of Marine Science and Application, associate editor of Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences and editorial board member of multiple academic journals including Applied Ocean Research and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, among others.