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Prof. Steven Y. Liang
(Fellow of ASME & SME) |
Steven Y. Liang holds a 1987 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, USA, and was founding Director of Precision Machining Research Consortium and Director of Manufacturing Education Program and has been Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professor for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Dr. Liang served as President of Walsin Lihwa Corp., a publicly-traded manufacturing entity with over USD6 billions of yearly revenue. Dr. Liang's technical interests lie in advanced manufacturing, precision engineering, and materials-centric production, and in these areas he has supervised over 90 post-doctoral studies, Ph.D. dissertations, and M.S. theses and has authored in excess of 450 book chapters, archival journal papers, and professional conference articles. He has delivered more than 60 keynotes and invited seminars at industries, peer institutions, and conferences in over 20 countries on manufacturing science and technology. Dr. Liang served as President of North American Manufacturing Research Institution and Chair of Manufacturing Engineering Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (MDPI) and Editor of International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (Springer). Dr. Liang is the recipient of Robert B. Douglas Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award of SME, Ralph R. Teetor Education Award of SAE, Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award of ASME, Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal of ASME, etc. Dr. Liang is a fellow of both ASME and SME.
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Assoc. Prof. Ana Pilipović |
Ana Pilipović start to work at University of Zagreb
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
in the Chair of Polymer Processing, Department of
Technology in 2008. and done her doctoral thesis on
October 2012., with the topic of the additive
manufacturing: Influence of processing parameters on the
properties of polymer prototype.
From 2008 she is participated in several science
international and domestic project like FP7, H2020, IPA,
IRI, IRI2, Eco-Innovation, Croatian science foundation
and projects from Croatian Ministry of Science and
Education.
Her special interest lies in additive manufacturing,
polymer processing, composite processing, recycling of
polymers, mechanical testing of polymers, biopolymers,
etc. Up to now she has published as author and co-author
242 scientific and professional papers in journals and
conference proceedings in Croatia and abroad.
She was a visiting professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey
Santiago de Queretaro, San Luis Potosi and Guadalajara,
Mexico, Çukurova University Adana, Turkey, Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering in Maribor, Slovenia and Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. She has published chapters in 3 books,
mentored 40 master and baccularius theses, 2 rector's
award, and is currently mentoring 8 doctorates in the
fields of medicine, dentistry and mechanical
engineering. In addition to teaching at her home university, she
gives lectures at the Polytechnic of Zagreb (Zagreb
University of Applied Sciences) and the University of
Lyon, France. She won the award "Vera Johanides" for young scientists
in 2014 in the field of additive manufacturing awarded
by the Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ). She is now associate professor and head of Chair of
Polymer Processing in University of Zagreb Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
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Assoc. Prof. Zili Wang |
Zili Wang received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include the metal tube forming, design and manufacturing of metal plastic forming equipment, reliable prediction of product performance driven by intelligent algorithms, multi-performance simulation analysis and optimization design, digital-twin, etc. He has hold or participated in 15 national research projects, and published over 60 SCI papers in journals like Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Applied Soft Computing, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Materials & Design, Expert Systems with Applications, etc. He has been granted 2 US patents, 1 Japanese patent, and over 30 Chinese invention patents. Dr. Wang is a young editor of Journal of IntelligentManufacturing and Special Equipment, and a reviewer for over 20 international journals. He has been selected as a 2023 Outstanding Reviewer for Future Generations Computer Systems Journal. Dr. Wang won Gold Award at the Nuremberg Global Invention Exhibition in Germany 2023.