Smart Materials and Nanotechnology

Professor Liew is the Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Chair Professor of Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Liew was appointed Chair Professor of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, a tenured Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the Founding Director of Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization. He was visiting professors of MIT, University of Southern California, University of Toronto and Tsinghua University. His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation. Over his academic career, he has published over 700 SCI journal articles. Professor Liew is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a Highly Cited Researcher in engineering. His publications have been cited over twenty-two thousand times and his current H-index is 75 (Google Scholar). To date, Professor Liew has attracted over US$40 million research and development funds from government funding agencies, industries and higher learning institutions. He has graduated over 50 PhD students and supervised over 60 Post-doctoral fellows. His students are well received by industries and many of them have become faculty members of universities worldwide.

His research interests encompass computational mechanics, materials modeling, nanotechnology, plates and shells, engineering optimization and fire simulation.

Dr. Genda Chen has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from the State University of New York at Buffalo and continued his postdoctoral study before he joined Steinman Consulting Engineers for bridge design, inspection, and construction support. He is the director of System and Process Assessment Research Laboratory. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals (out of 350 publications total and 3 patents) and has been serving as an editiorial board member of four reputed journals. He will chair the 9th ISHMII International Conference, St. Louis, 2019.

Structural health monitoring (sensors, sensing systems, data analysis, and nondestructive testing/evaluation), structural control (active, semi-active, and passive systems), interface mechanics and deterioration, bridge engineering, and multi-hazard effects on transportation infrastructure.

Professor Jacek Przybylski is a specialist in applied mechanics. At the early stages of his work for the Czestochowa University of Technology his scholarly research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory. Over the last thirty years he has been mainly concerned with the stability and vibration of mechanical systems. During that period he has published his doctoral and postdoctoral theses and many technical papers and articles. He has also been conducting research into other subject areas, such as the theoretical and experimental investigations of vibration of the divergence-pseudoflutter systems, computer aided design of mobile cranes and resonance boxes of musical instruments as well as the interaction problems between the supports of truck cranes and the ground of particular rheological properties. In the last ten years his investigation has been focused on the influence of the piezoelectric actuation on the static and dynamic behaviour of mechanical systems, including the geometrically non-linear systems. His work in the above areas has been published in a large number of various Polish and international highly reputable journals. Moreover, he has published as an author or co-author seven research monographs in the field. Professor’s didactic activities cover lectures, classes, workshops, seminars and laboratory classes on mechanics, mechanics of materials, theory of vibrations, and computer aided design. He is the author of curriculum-oriented textbooks, laboratory instructions and concepts of many laboratory and didactic stands for graduate and postgraduate students at various stages of higher education. Other activities include being a supervisor who mentors postgraduate students preparing for their PhD examinations. For his scientific and didactic activities Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has awarded him two individual and three collective prizes. He has also been awarded twelve prizes by the Rector of CUT.

Physics, Materials Engineering

Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi has a PhD from IIEES and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran. He has been a member of the scientific and organising committee of more than 50 international conferences worldwide, and has published various articles in the field of structural/earthquake engineering. He is the Founder and Chief Editor of Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering as well as serving on the Editorial Board of more than 20 international indexed journals in the field of civil, structural and earthquake engineering.

Hybrid Materials for Engineering Applications, Smart Structures, Innovative Seismic Controling Devices, Performance Based Design, Structures under Extreme Loadings, Risk and Uncertanity Analysis