| Prof. Paolo MercorelliLeuphana 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 ZhangDalian 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. |
| Prof. Wenbin HouDalian 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 GuoDalian 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. |
