Chair Prof. Jianguo Lin

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Hong Kong 

Prof. Jianguo Lin successively obtained a BEng in Agricultural Machinery from Xinjiang Shihezi University, an MEng in Engineering Graphics from Taiyuan University of Technology, and a PhD in Leather Shoe Manufacturing from the University of Sheffield (UK). After that, he engaged in 5-year post-doctoral research on high-temperature creep and fatigue. He once worked at the University of Birmingham (UK), serving as a lecturer in the Geometric Modelling Group, a researcher in the Metal Forming Group, and later was promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader. Since 2008, he has held the position of Full Chair at Imperial College London, concurrently serving as Head of the Mechanics of Materials Division and a Royal Academy of Engineering-Tata Steel Research Chair. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2013 and a Fellow of the European Academy of Science in 2017. At Imperial College London, he established the Metal Forming and Materials Modelling research group, which had over 50 researchers in 2022 and won two Imperial President’s Medals. As Principal Investigator, he secured more than 50 research grants (with a total of over £30 million) and participated in projects worth over £110 million. He also founded 4 research centres, 2 joint research labs, and 3 spin-off companies (to commercialize technologies such as HFQ®). In addition, Professor Lin has published over 400 research papers, 2 books, obtained more than 20 patents, and currently holds positions including Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture and other roles in international journals.

In September 2024, Professor Lin joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), as a Chair Professor, to continue his research in materials processing and modelling technologies.

Prof. Pesin Alexander

Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Russia

Prof. Alexander Pesin is a full Professor and Deputy Head of the Mechanics of Gradient Nanomaterials Laboratory at Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Magnitogorsk, Russia. At present, he is also the Director of “ChermetinformSystems” LLC, an enterprise established under the auspices of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University. His primary research interests include the development of theory and technology of cold and hot rolling, combined and hybrid processes, asymmetric rolling, logistics and theory of constraints, and the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Prof. Pesin has published more than 590 scientific papers, including 14 monographs and study guides, and has received 130 copyright certificates and patents of invention. He has been awarded a gold medal and a Rospatent Diploma of the 1st Degree for the best invention at the VI Moscow International Exhibition of Innovations and Investments, as well as two gold medals at the 20th Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies "Archimedes-2017".

Prof. Shouxun Ji

Brunel University, Britain

Prof. Quentin Ramasse

University of Leeds, Britain 

Prof. Quentin Ramasse holds a joint Chair in Advanced Electron Microscopy at the School of Chemical and Process Engineering and School of Physics, University of Leeds. After an M.Eng. at Ecole Centrale Paris and an M.Math (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) at the Unviersity of Cambridge, he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge as a member of the Microstructural Physics Group working on optical aberration measurements methodologies for aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). He then moved to the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) in Berkeley, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded user facility, initially for a postdoctoral fellowship before being appointed Staff Scientist. At NCEM he took part in the TEAM project which saw development of the world's first 0.5Å electron microscope. Since 2010, Quentin is the Director of the SuperSTEM Laboratory, the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for Advanced Electron Microscopy, which is located on the outskirts of Warrington on the SciTech Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. Quentin has published extensively in the field of STEM-EELS, with a dual focus on STEM technique development and on applications to a wide range of energy harvesting materials, from 2-dimensional materials such as graphene and MoS2 nano-catalysts to complex oxides.

Prof. Mingxing Zhang

University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Mingxing Zhang obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, China, and Master of Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. In 1997, he was awarded his PhD degree by The University of Queensland. He is currently a Professor at the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland.

His research interests include additive manufacturing of metals and MAX phase materials, high-entropy alloys, new alloy design through machine learning, application of crystallography to engineering materials, surface engineering of metals, grain refinement for cast metals, surface modification and coatings, bainitic transformation, and bainitic steels. Professor Zhang is a world leader in the field of crystallography of phase transformations and its applications in engineering materials, and is recognized as one of the top researchers in the areas of phase transformations, grain refinement for cast metals, additive manufacturing of metals, and surface engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Zhenhai Xia

University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr. Zhenhai Xia is an Associate Professor at School of Chemical Engineering and the Deputy Director of the Australian Carbon Materials Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests encompass multiscale and multi-physics modeling of clean energy conversion and storage, biological and bioinspired materials as well as mechanics of nanostructured materials/composites. He has authored one book, seven book chapters, and over 230 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including those in the Science and Nature series. His work has garnered over 30,000 citations with an h-index of 67 (Google Scholar). Dr. Xia has received numerous awards, including the 1997 Humboldt Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the 2015 Nanoscience Research Leader Award from Science Letters, USA, and the 2019 Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies. He is also an associate editor for Frontiers in Energy Materials and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Assoc. Prof. Wentao Yan

National University of Singapore, Singapore 

Wentao Yan is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He joined NUS in August 2018. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University and a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in Beijing in March 2017. From October 2014 to March 2017, he was a joint doctoral student at Northwestern University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2012. 

Professor Yan is actively committed to exploring fields such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing; computational mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations, data-driven modeling, and the integration of physical models and data analysis.

Prof. Heng Li

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Professor Heng Li is a doctoral supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering. He serves as the leader ofthe LIFE (Limit Forming and Intelligent Manufacturing of Aerospace Advanced Materials) team. His teaching and research primarily focus on advanced materials' high-performance processing and limit forming intelligent manufacturing. He has made significant progress in the following areas: performance-driven collaborative design and manufacturing of material-structure-process for high-performance components, digital and green sustainable processing and forming technologies, microstructural information inheritance and evolution control during forming and service of difficult-to-deform materials, and multi-field multi-scale mathematical modeling across the entire manufacturing cycle.

Professor Li has been invited to serve as an editorial board member for multiple prestigious domestic and international journals, including TOP journals such as International Journal of Plasticity, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Journal of Plasticity Engineering, and Precision Forming Engineering. He also serves on academic and organizing committees for international conferences such as ICTP and Plasticity, and holds positions such as Deputy Director of the Standing Academic Committee for the Tube Forming Technology Forum of the Plasticity Engineering Branch.

Prof. Jufu Jiang

Harbin Institute of Technology, China 

Professor Jiang is a Tier-II Professor and national-level high-caliber talent at Harbin Institute of Technology. He serves as an Executive Committee Member of the International Scientific Committee for Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites, and holds multiple editorial and committee roles in Chinese academic societies and journals, including Materials. His research focuses on semi-solid processing, squeeze casting, integrated die-casting, and combined casting-forging forming of metallic structural materials. He has pioneered technologies such as light alloy casting-forging hybridization and localized loading squeeze casting. A key achievement is leading the development of China's first 12,500 kN large-scale, cost-effective, and high-efficiency squeeze casting equipment. This innovation has solved critical defect control challenges in large aluminum alloy components with significant wall-thickness variations. His work has enabled the production of high-performance, complex lightweight components for aerospace (e.g., satellite brackets, aircraft frames), automotive (e.g., heavy-duty engine flywheel housings, large integrated die-cast car body parts), and 5G communication equipment. He has published 196 papers (121 SCI-indexed, with over 4,000 citations), filed 47 Chinese invention patents (31 granted, 2 commercialized), authored one monograph, and received numerous awards, including a National Technology Invention Second Prize.

Prof. Cuie Wen

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Professor Wen Cuie is a Distinguished Professor of Biomaterials Engineering and a PhD supervisor at RMIT University. She serves as a Distinguished Expert for several international academic organizations, including TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) in the United States, the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, the Australian Ceramic Society, and the American Chemical Society. She has also chaired and served as a member of the organizing committees for numerous key international conferences. Professor Wen has led and participated in multiple federal and state government-funded research projects, including those supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and the Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing. Her research has achieved internationally leading results in the field of biocompatible titanium alloys, magnesium alloys, and porous metal scaffold biomaterials. She is also one of the pioneering scientists in metal foam research and has developed next-generation nanomaterials for energy storage, specifically as anode materials for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries. Professor Wen has co-authored 357 publications, including 2 books, 13 book chapters, 269 journal articles, and 73 conference papers, with 7,422 citations and an H-index of 44. She holds six patents granted in Japan and Australia. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of *Smart Materials in Manufacturing* and an editorial board member for journals such as *Acta Biomaterialia*. In 2017, she received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, and in 2018, she was elected as a Fellow of the RMIT Professorial Academy. She maintains close collaboration with shoulder and elbow surgeon Professor Minoo Patel in Melbourne.