Prof. Ruxu Du
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Biography:
Dr. R. Du received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1989. He has taught in the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada , the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. USA , the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, and the S. M. Wu School of Intelligent Engineering in the South China University of Technology. He is the founding director of the Guangzhou Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Advanced Technology. His areas of research include precision engineering, design and manufacturing (metal forming, machining, plastic injection molding and etc.), as well as robotics and automation. He has received a number of international and regional awards and recognitions, including:
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering;
Fellow of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers);
Fellow of ASME (Society of American Mechanical Engineers);
Fellow of HKIE (Hong Kong Institute of Engineers).
Prof. Guangxue Chen
Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering
Biography:
Guangxue Chen, Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance, holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from the PLA Information Engineering University. He currently serves as a second-level professor at the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, where he leads the nationally recognized first-class undergraduate program in Light Chemical Engineering and heads the Ministry of Education’s Virtual Teaching and Research Office for the Light Chemical Engineering specialty. He is the Director of the Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Filtration and Wet-laid Nonwoven Composite Materials, an academic backbone of the State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, and the leader of the Digital Printing and Intelligent Packaging academic team.
Prof. Chen concurrently holds multiple key positions, including Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society for Photosensitive Materials, Co-Chairman of the International Printing Electronics and Intelligent Packaging Industry Consortium, Deputy Director of the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the China Packaging Federation, Executive Vice Chairman of the Image Science and Engineering Society under the China Instrument and Control Society, and Supervisor of the Guangdong Packaging Technology Association, among others.
He has long been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the fields of cartographic printing and geographic information technology, printing and packaging engineering. His main research areas include environmentally friendly functional materials for printing and packaging, printed electronics and intelligent packaging, digital printing, and 3D printing technologies. Prof. Chen has supervised over 80 postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, and master’s students. He has published more than 500 academic papers, with over 300 indexed by SCI/EI, and holds over 100 authorized domestic and international patents. He has led more than 30 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, key provincial and ministerial R&D plans, and local science and technology programs. Additionally, he has participated in the development of more than 20 national and industry standards.
Prof. Liejun Li
Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering
Biography:
Liejun Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor at South China University of Technology, a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance. He concurrently serves as Co-Chairman of the Global Doctoral Innovation Community, President of the Guangdong Doctoral Innovation Development Association, Chairman of the Metal New Materials Industry Alliance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chairman of the Advanced Materials Society Consortium of the Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, Executive President of the Guangzhou Engineers Society, and President of the Guangzhou Metallurgical Society.
With over 30 years of experience in the research, development, and industrialization of advanced metallic materials, Prof. Li has spent more than 20 years working in technical research and development, production management, and scientific and technological management at two large enterprises. He has achieved a series of significant innovative outcomes, with 16 awarded national and provincial-level science and technology prizes. He holds 32 authorized invention patents and has published 306 academic papers, making substantial contributions to the advancement of China’s new materials industry.
Prof. Li has received numerous honors, including Guangdong Annual Contribution Person, China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award, Scientific China Person of the Year, “My Favorite Supervisor” at South China University of Technology, and the Guangzhou Nanshan Science and Technology Innovation Award.
Prof. Yuezhong Meng
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Biography:
Professor Yuezhong Meng studied under Professor Tomlison A11 An S. Hay, a fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom and one of the pioneers of polymer chemistry at McGill University in Canada. He has published 438 SCI-indexed papers, among which 86 have an impact factor greater than 10. There are also over 130 national invention patents and 6 US invention patents. From 2014 to 2021, he/she was consecutively selected as a highly cited Chinese Researcher for eight years, with an H-index of 71. The technology of synthesizing fully biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide that he has led the research and development of over 20 years is currently being industrialized in five large enterprises, namely Shandong Lianxin Environmental Protection Technology (Taixing) Co., LTD., Sinochem Energy Co., LTD. (Quanzhou Petrochemical), China Coal Xuyang Energy Co., LTD., Hebei Xinnuo Lixing Group Co., LTD., and Guangdong Tianxin New Materials Technology Co., LTD. The technology transfer fee exceeded 200 million yuan.
As the chief scientist, he/she undertook a major directional project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As the project leader, I have undertaken multiple key and exploratory projects of the National 863 Program, key research and development projects of the National Key Research and Development Program, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, major guiding research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, outstanding team projects of the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and projects of Guangdong Province More than 60 major projects, including the "Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction" major special project, the key breakthrough technology bidding project in key fields between Guangdong and Hong Kong, and the key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and the cooperation projects with enterprises. The total research funds exceed 300 million yuan.
Prof. Zhenyu Zhang
Dalian University of Technology, China
Biography:
Zhenyu Zhang is a professor at Dalian University of Technology. His main research areas include precision and ultra-precision processing technology, grinding, polishing, additive manufacturing, laser processing technology and equipment, etc. He is a National Special-appointed Professor, the first batch of Young Chang Jiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education, a National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Dalian Outstanding Youth, a talent at the hundred-level of the Liaoning Province's "Thousand, Hundred, Ten" Talent Program, an outstanding science and technology worker of Liaoning Province, and an outstanding master's thesis supervisor of Liaoning Province. He has won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (innovation team) once (10/15). As the first inventor, he has obtained 60 national invention patents and 6 US patents. As the first or corresponding author, he has published 27 SCI cover articles, including 1 with an impact factor greater than 30 and 14 with an impact factor greater than 10. As the first inventor, he has won one first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hainan Province and one first prize of the Innovation Award of the China Association of Industry-University-Research Cooperation. His research results have been applied in key national units such as the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Ordnance Industry, the Ninth Institute of China Nuclear Industry, and the Ninth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.