Speakers
| Prof. Yusri Yusof, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn MalaysiaSenior member of the International Association of Engineering Technology (IAET)Dr. Yusri Yusof is a Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), appointed as UTHM Board of Director (BoD) member for 3 years from 10 May, 2021 by the Minister of Higher Education, Malaysia, and University Senate member for more than 10 years. Prof. Yusri was recognized as a Visiting Professor from the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, on 1 September 2019. He owns a PhD in Manufacturing, obtained from the University of Loughborough, the United Kingdom, in 2007. His doctoral thesis was on STEP Compliant Approach to Turning Operations in manufacturing engineering and passed without correction in his PhD viva. Prof. Yusri led about 20 grant research projects involving almost RM2 million under Science fund (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 on the Editorial Board of International Journals and is currently involved in several international bodies such as the 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 & reviewer’s boards and Senior member of the International Association of Engineering Technology (IAET). Member of Board of Engineer (BEM) Malaysia, Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). |
Prof. Liang Zhang, Chongqing UniversityMember of the Computational Mechanics Committee of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied MechanicsLiang Zhang, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, currently holds several key positions, including Member of the Computational Mechanics Committee of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Deputy Director of the Southern Computational Mechanics Liaison Committee, Council Member of the Chongqing Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and Director of the Engineering Mechanics Institute at Chongqing University. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University. Between 2017 and 2018, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His long-term research focuses on computational solid mechanics, with primary interests in computational mechanics of flexible structures, intelligent algorithms for complex systems, and the development of domestically independent CAE software. He has published over 60 SCI/EI academic papers, including multiple articles in prestigious journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computational Mechanics, International Journal of Solids and Structures, and AIAA Journal. He has obtained three software copyrights, three invention patents, and contributed to one book chapter. As the principal investigator, he has undertaken four National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, three Chongqing Natural Science Foundation projects (including one sub-project of a key program), and nearly 20 other research projects. |
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