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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 25, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 20, 2025

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Liangchi Zhang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Title: To be confirmed.
Prof. Liangchi Zhang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, where he also serves as the Director of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Cross-Scale Manufacturing Mechanics, the SUSTech Institute for Manufacturing Innovation, and the IMI-GLPoly Joint Research Centre. His research encompasses the interdisciplinary fields of intelligent manufacturing, materials characterization, nanotechnology, and solid mechanics, with his prolific and widely cited publications making a substantial impact on the academic community. In addition to advancing scientific understanding, his work has generated significant economic benefits, contributing impacts valued at millions of dollars annually. Recognized for his outstanding contributions to engineering sciences and technological innovation, Prof. Zhang has received numerous international awards, honors, and distinctions.
Prof. Herbert E. Huppert
University of Cambridge, UK
Title: Gravity currents over curvilinear surfaces, at both high and low Reynolds numbers, with numerous applications (illustrated by some desk-top experiments).
Born in Australia, Herbert graduated from Sydney University before going to ANU in Canberra and then UCSD in California to complete his formal education. From there he transferred to Cambridge in 1968 supported by a two-year fellowship. However he has not yet left ! He was appointed the first Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and innovated the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics in Cambridge in 1989, having been elected to the Royal Society in 1987. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Medal as well as being named Scientist of the Year in an Open International Competition in the category of Earth and related Environmental Sciences. In 2024 he was the recipient of a Global Australian Award. He is keenly interested in fluid mechanics and environmental fluid mechanics in particular. He initiated with Sir Steve Sparks the subject of Geological Fluid Mechanics and has published in a number of areas, including: double-diffusive convection; solidification and melting; gravity current flows, at both low and high Reynolds number; carbon dioxide sequestration; formation of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic; turbidites and pyroclastic flows; flow of granular material; volcanic eruption dynamics; flows through coral reefs; and defense against tsunamis. He has been an author or co-author of some 300 papers with a current H number of 86 (according to Google Scholar).
Prof. Shaofan Li
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Title: Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Structure Design and Industrial Inverse Problems: From Structure Design to Thermal Distortion Control in 3D Printing, and to Forensic Analysis of Traffic Accidents
Dr. Shaofan Li is a computational engineering and sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Li graduated from the East China University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982; he also holds Master of Science (M.S.) degrees in Applied Mechanics (from Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and Aerospace Engineering (from the University of Florida) in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Dr. Li received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1997.

In 2000, Dr. Li joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty. Dr. Li is a recipient of the Fellow Award of the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the USACM Fellow Award (2013), and the NSF Career Award (2003). Dr. Li published more than two hundred seventy peer-reviewed scientific papers with an h-index of 61 (Google Scholar), and he coauthored three research monographs/graduate textbooks.
Prof. Marian Wiercigroch
University of Aberdeen, UK
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Design.
Professor Marian Wiercigroch educated in Poland, US and UK holds a prestigious Sixth Century Chair in Applied Dynamics and he is a founding director of the Centre for Applied Dynamics Research at the University of Aberdeen.

His area of research is theoretical and experimental nonlinear dynamics, which he applies to various engineering problems. Wiercigroch has published extensively (over 500 journal and conference papers) and sits on a dozen editorial boards of peer review journals. He is a frequent keynote and plenary speaker at major international conferences and the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, a leading journal in mechanics and mechanical engineering.

He is the inventor of new patented drilling technology called Resonance Enhanced Drilling and the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of a spinoff company iVDynamics Ltd. He has established in Aberdeen unique experimental laboratories allowing to investigate complex nonlinear dynamic interactions in mechanical systems with the focus on energy generation.

Marian is a Scottish Champion of Knowledge Exchange (2020) and he served as a panelist in the Research Excellence Framework (2014, 2021), which assess the quality of research in the UK.

He has received many awards and distinctions including a Senior Fulbright Scholarship (1994), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009), DSc honoris causa from the Lodz University of Technology (2013), Distinguished Honorary Professorships from the Perm National Research Polytechnic University (2017), Balseiro Institute (2018), Yanshan University (2021) and University of Nottingham Ningbo (2023).
Prof. Jian LU
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: Recent development of additive manufacturing: concept, design, process and applications.
Prof. Jian LU is Chair Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). He is an academician of the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2011 and the President of HK-MRS. He started his university study at Peking University and obtained the Dip. Ing., Master (DEA) degree and Doctoral degree from University of Technology of Compiegne in 1984 and 1986 respectively. From 1986 to 1994, he was appointed as Senior Research Engineer at the CETIM (French Technical Centre for Mechanical Industry). In 1994, he was appointed as Professor; Head of Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering and Director of Mechanical Systems and Concurrent Engineering Laboratory jointly supported by the French Ministry of Education and CNRS at the University of Technology of Troyes, France. From 2005 to 2010, he was Chair Professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2010 to 2013, he was the Dean of College of Science and Engineering at CityU. Professor LU’s primary research interest is advanced nanomaterials and its integration in energy and biomedical systems. He has also branched out into several other areas of interest including surface science and engineering, residual stresses, and mechanics of nanomaterials. He has published more than 550 SCI journal papers including papers in Nature (cover story), Science, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Materials Today, Advanced Materials, PRL, JACS and his research works are cited more than 48000 times. He received the French Knight of the National Order of Merit and French Knight of the National Order of Légion d’Honneur in 2006 & 2017 respectively. He received the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Title: Building Intelligent Mechanical Fault Diagnosis Frameworks with Deep Learning.
Hamid Reza Karimi is Professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy and the Honorary Visiting Professor within the School of Computing & Engineering at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Prof. Karimi’s original research and development achievements span a broad spectrum within the topic of automation/control systems, and intelligence systems with applications to complex systems such as wind turbines, vehicles, robotics and mechatronics. Prof. Karimi is an ordinary Member of Academia Europa (MAE), Honorary Academic Member of National Academy of Sciences of Bolivia, Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), Fellow of The International Society for Condition Monitoring (ISCM), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, the IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control as well as member of the board of Directors of The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). Prof. Karimi is the recipient of the 2021 BINDT CM Innovation Award, the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship Award, JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Award, and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung research Award, for instance. Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Subject Editor, Technical Editor or Associate Editor for some international journals and Book Series Editor for Springer, CRC Press and Elsevier. He has also participated as General Chair, keynote/plenary speaker, distinguished speaker or program chair for several international conferences in the areas of Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics.
Prof. Qingsong Xu
University of Macau, Macau, China
Title: Development of Microrobotic Manipulation Systems for Biomedical Applications
Dr. Qingsong Xu is a Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and Director of the Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scholar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, National University of Singapore, Singapore, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His research involves intelligent micro/nanosystems, precision robotics, and biomedical applications. He has published four books and over 450 papers in international journals and conferences, cited over 14000 times in Google Scholar with an H-index of 70. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). He was a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Prof. Xu has received more than ten best paper awards from international conferences and multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. He has been selected into the top 2% of the world's top scientists released by Stanford University since 2019. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).