Conference General Chair
Prof. Paolo Mercorelli
Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany
Paolo Mercorelli (Member, IEEE) received a PhD degree in systems engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1998. In 1997, he was Visiting Researcher for one year with the Department of Mechanical andEnvironmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. From 1998 to 2001 he was Postdoctoral Researcher with Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research, Heidelberg, Germany, and this research activity has brought him 3 patents. From 2002 to 2005 he was Senior Researcher with the Institute of Automation and Informatics, Wernigerode, Germany, where he was the leader of the control group. From 2005 to 2011 he was Associate Professor of Process Informatics with the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg, Germany. Since 2012, he has been Full Professor and Chair of control and drive systems with the Institute for Production Technology and Systems, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany. Since winter semester 2017/2018, he has been International Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Institute of Automatic Control, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, where he has been responsible for different courses in the field of control of robotic systems. His current research interests include applications of Kalman filters, robotics, wavelets, geometric control, and sliding mode control. Dr. Mercorelli was the recipient of a three-year scholarship from the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Program, which is one of the most competitive and prestigious European awards sponsored by the European Commission from 1998 to 2001. He received seven best international conferences paper awards: IECON 2013, IECON 2014, CoDIT 2014, ICCC 2017, FedCSIS 2019, ACD 2019, ICCC 2020, ICSTCC 2023. He held twelve plenary lectures in international conferences. In the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, he has been on the list of the top 2% scientists by Elsevier Database and (METRICS) University of Stanford (USA) (Ioannidis, J.; Boyack, K. & Baas, J., 2020, Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, PLOS, October 16). Since 2019 he has been Editor-in-Chief for the „Transactions on Computer Research“ an Open Access Journal from WSEAS. Since 2022, he has beenEditor-in-Chief for the Section “Engineering Mathematics” in “Mathematics”, an Open Access Journal from MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In summer semester 2023, he has been Visiting Professor with Chandigarh University, India, and responsible for the course of Control Systems.
Prof. Zhenyu Zhang
Dalian University of Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Zhenyu Zhang is a professor of School of Mechanical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. His research work focuses on ultraprecision grinding, chemical mechanical polishing, nanoscale precision manufacturing and nanotribology. Dr. Zhang was awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2014, Distinguished Professor and Young Scholar of Changjiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of China in 2016 and 2019, respectively, Thousand Talents of Zhejiang Province, China in 2015, Distinguished Young Scholars for Science and Technology of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China in 2016, Hundred Talents of Hundreds, Thousands and Ten Thousands Talents Program of Liaoning Province, China in 2016, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China in 2013.
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Prof. Wenbin Hou
Dalian University of Technology, China
Wenbin Hou, professor and doctoral supervisor of Vehicle Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests are automotive digital, intelligent and lightweight design. He received his PhD in Engineering from Jilin University in 2003. He has worked in the Computer Science postdoctoral mobile station of Jilin University, visiting scholar in the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Michigan, Senior research scholar in the School of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Sydney, Australia, and the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Liverpool, UK. He is now the director of Liaoning Provincial Vehicle Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Center, and a member of the National Key Laboratory of Industrial Equipment Structure Analysis and Optimization and CAE Software. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering and a member of the editorial board of journals such as Automotive Engineering and Journal of Automotive Engineering. Presided over more than 10 key and surface projects of the National Nature Foundation, provincial and municipal projects, participated in more than 20 national major projects, national "863" projects, "973" projects, published more than 100 scientific research papers, and more than 80 SCI retrieval papers. He has won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress, the first, second and third prizes of China's Automobile Industry Science and Technology Progress and the second prize of Liaoning Province teaching achievements.
Prof. Xiaoguang Guo
Dalian University of Technology, China
Professor, PhD supervisor, member of high-performance precision Manufacturing research and innovation team of Dalian University of Technology, mainly engaged in ultra-precision machining theory and technology, machining process modeling and simulation, and efficient machining technology of difficult-to-machine materials. As the project leader, he has undertaken a number of projects, including 1 key fund project (participating unit) of the National Natural Science Foundation, 1 surface project, 1 National Natural Science Youth Fund, 1 National 973 project sub-project, and 2 Liaoning Natural Science Foundation projects, and participated in more than 10 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 973 project, and national major research and development plans. Won 1 second prize of national technological invention, 1 first prize of provincial and ministerial level, 5 achievements appraisal of provincial and ministerial level; Published 1 monograph (national level); 66 papers have been published, 48 have been included in SCI/EI, and 14 have been published in TOP journals of Chinese Academy of Sciences/disciplines. He undertook the teaching work of "Mechanical Precision Design and Testing Technology", mechanical manufacturing basic course design, production practice, etc., and won the "Excellent Teaching Quality Award of the school" once, and the second prize of the school teaching achievement. The doctoral, master's and undergraduate students under the guidance have won national scholarships, special scholarships, outstanding master's theses of the university, and awards and honors of the university Academic star.
Prof. Xiaohong Lu
Dalian University of Technology, China
Xiaohong Lu, Doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor. His main research direction is micro milling technology. Precision machining and friction stir welding process measurement and control technology; Computer aided design, manufacturing and testing. He has presided over longitudinal projects such as National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund, surface Project, National major science and technology project, key research and development project, doctoral Fund of universities and Natural Science Fund of Liaoning Province. Participate in the national 973 project, key research and development projects, natural science Foundation major projects, key projects and national science and technology major projects, including a number of national vertical projects. Participated in winning the second prize of Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Education, 4 scientific and technological achievements appraisal of the Ministry of Education, 1 first prize of Dalian Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 first prize of Dalian Patent Award. He has published more than 90 academic papers, including more than 70 SCI/ indexed papers as the first or corresponding author, and 1 highly cited by ESI; Authorized to apply for more than 20 invention patents; 2 applications of technological achievements in enterprises; As the chairman of the MSEC Branch of the International Academic Conference, the technical advisor of the Composite Machine Tool Branch of the National Metal Cutting Machine Tool Standardization Technical Committee, He has been a guest reviewer for Applied Surface Science, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Nonlinear Dynamics, IEEE, ASME and other international journals.
Prof. Jianwei Ma
Dalian University of Technology, China
Focusing on the direction of mechanical manufacturing, he is mainly engaged in the research work of surface machining and process control of difficult-to-process materials, laser precision machining and process control, robot-assisted machining planning and control. As the project leader, he has presided over 10 research projects including National Natural Science Foundation Project, National Defense Basic Scientific Research Challenge Project, National Science and Technology Major project, Basic Research Project of Liaoning Provincial Education Department Key Laboratory, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Project, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special project. As a technical backbone, he has participated in the research work of more than 10 projects such as key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, equipment pre-research projects, science and technology research projects of the Ministry of Education, and major scientific and technological innovation projects of Liaoning Province. More than 60 academic papers have been published (including acceptance) in authoritative journals and important international conferences in the field of machinery manufacturing, of which more than 40 are included in SCI; Six academic papers were awarded 3 third prize of Liaoning Province Natural Science Academic Achievement (book class), 1 second prize of Dalian City Natural Science Excellent academic paper / 1 third prize, "Journal of Mechanical Engineering" 60th anniversary excellent paper. Applied for more than 90 Chinese invention patents, applied for 2 international invention patents, authorized 36 Chinese invention patents, a number of patents have been successfully applied; Authorized software copyright 4. Selected in the national "Ten thousand Plan" young top talent, Liaoning Province "Xingliao Talent Plan" young Top talent, Liaoning Province "Ten million talent Project" thousand level candidates, Dalian City young science and technology star training program, Dalian University of Technology "Xinghai Scholars" talent training program.
Publication Chair
Prof. Caixu Yue
Harbin University of Science and Technology, China
Caixu Yue is currently the vice president of the School of Mechanical Power Engineering, the deputy director of the National and local Joint Engineering Laboratory of High Efficiency Cutting and Cutting Tools, doctoral supervisor and professor. National high-level young talent, Longjiang Scholar "Young Scholar" Heilongjiang Province high-level talent, Heilongjiang Province youth May fourth Medal winner, Heilongjiang Province Youth Science and Technology Award winner, Heilongjiang Province advanced personal ethics. He is engaged in research on intelligent manufacturing, cutting process modeling and complex tool design. In the past five years, he has presided over two key research and development projects and two projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and participated in the completion of a number of projects such as the National 863 key project, the National Natural Science Foundation key project, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Nature Foundation key project. He has published 90 SCIEI indexed academic papers, including 2 "ESI" highly cited papers, 1 F5000 paper, 2 published works, and more than 20 approved invention patents. Approved China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Progress first, second prize each 1 (sequence 2). He has successively served as the letter evaluation expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National director of the Advanced Cutting Technology Research Branch of China Machinery Industry Metal Cutting Tool Technology Association, the deputy Secretary general of Heilongjiang Tool Technology Association, and the standing member of the Production Engineering Branch of China Mechanical Engineering Society.
Prof. Ir. Dr. YUSRI BIN YUSOF
Universiti Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Yusri Yusof is Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He has a PhD in Manufacturing, which he obtained from the University of Loughborough, United Kingdom in the year 2007. Dr. Yusri has had over 22 years’ experience of teaching in higher education. Dr Yusri has been invited 30 times as Keynote speaker local and International Conference and also served as International Committee almost 50 conferences in his area for the last 5 years. Dr. Yusri has multidisciplinary research interests and his main areas of research are CAD/CAM and STEP-NC. He has published more than 50 international technical papers, mainly in CAD/CAM and advanced manufacturing. Dr. Yusri lead about 20 grant research project involved almost RM2 million under Sciencefund (MOSTI), Prototype Research Grant (PRGS), Fundamental Research Grant (FRGS) and Internal Research Fund under Intelligent Manufacture for STEP-NC Compliant Machining projects. He has served as the Editorial Board of the International Journals and currently involved in several international bodies such as, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Senior member of the Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Scientific and Technical Committees, editorial & reviewers boards on Natural and Applied Sciences and Senior member of the International Association of Engineering Technology (IAET).