Keynote Speakers
Prof. Duc Truong Pham
University of Birmingham, UK
Experience: Duc Truong PHAM OBE FREng FLSW FSME BE PhD DEng FIET FIMechE SFHEA holds the Chance Chair of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His research is in the areas of intelligent systems, robotics and autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing and remanufacturing technology. He has published over 600 technical papers and books and has graduated more than 100 PhD students. He is a recipient of several awards including five prizes from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Automation Congress and a Distinguished International Academic Contribution Award from the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Learned Society of Wales, the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is the founding editor of the Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing, the founding editor-in-chief of Cogent Engineering and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing.
Prof. Z. Li
Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Experience: Dr. Li has broad national and international collaboration with academic and industrial partners. Since 2005 when he joined the group, he has acquired more than 5.6 million Euro search funding from the Dutch national funding organizations for scientific and technological research NOW and STW, the European Commission (EC), the International Union of Railways (UIC), the Dutch railway Infra Manager ProRail and operator NS. Dr. Li obtained his BSc and MCs degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in Computational Mechanics on numerical solution of rolling contact at Delft University of Technology in 2002. He worked between 1999 and 2005 at TNO, the Dutch organization for applied sciences, on multibody dynamics and finite element methods, as well as their applications in crashworthiness. He joined the group of Railway Engineering in 2005. He is currently full professor of Rail Systems and Monitoring.
Prof. Yanle Li
Shandong University, China
Experience: In 2015, he received his doctorate degree from University of Queensland, Australia, and is now a professor, doctoral supervisor, Party branch secretary of Vehicle Engineering Research Institute, young expert of Taishan Scholars in Shandong Province, leader of Youth innovation team in Shandong Universities, talent of Xuzhou City "Double Innovation Plan", and young future Scholar of Shandong University. He is mainly engaged in the research of basic theory, process method and application technology of green low-carbon manufacturing of complex surface components, including flexible sheet forming, laser cladding, additive manufacturing, etc. Presided over more than 20 scientific research projects (including 6 national projects and 6 provincial and ministerial projects), Including the National Natural Science Foundation (2 surface 1 youth), the Military Science and Technology Commission in the field of flexible forming the first 173 foundation strengthening project subproject, the Central Military Commission installation and development project, the national key research and development program subproject, China Postdoctoral Fund special funding project, Shandong Province key research and development program and other vertical projects 13, Industry leading enterprises (Weichai Power, Jinan Heavy Industry, Shandong Haomai Machinery, etc.) commissioned 8 projects. He has published a total of 80 SCI/EI papers (more than 50 SCI/EI papers, he has cited more than 1000 times, h-index 23), including 27 papers in JCR Q1/ Region 1 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ranked 6th in the world in the number of SCI papers published in the field of "Incremental Sheet Forming" in the past 5 years. He has published 1 monograph, authorized 42 invention patents (including 4 international invention patents), applied for 5 PCT patents, obtained 5 software Copyrights, won 1 first prize and 2 second prize of China Machinery Industry Science and Technology, won 1 Excellence Award of China's industry-universal-research Cooperation Innovation Achievements, and won 3 first Prize of Shandong Province Machinery Industry Science and Technology Progress Award. He is also the deputy secretary General of the Remanufacturing Committee of the China Internal Combustion Engine Association, a member of the Group and Intelligent Integration Technology Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the deputy chairman of the Shandong Provincial Machinery Industry Science and Technology Expert Committee.
Prof. Xiaolu Cui
Chongqing Jiaotong University, China
Experience: Member of the Rail Transit System Discipline Technical Committee of the World Transportation Congress, senior member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, member of the second Youth Expert Committee of Chongqing Jiaotong University, part-time tutor of international development of Chongqing Jiaotong University, member of the American and Western Students Association of Chongqing Jiaotong University, and head of the Department of Vehicle Engineering of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Chongqing Jiaotong University
