 | Prof. Haibo GaoHarbin Institute of Technology Professor and doctoral supervisor; Assistant President of Harbin Institute of Technology, Dean of Academy of Science and Industry Technology; Deputy Director of National Key Laboratory of Robotics Technology and System. In recent years, he has presided over numerous scientific research projects including National Key R&D Program, Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation, 973 Program, 863 Program, National Major Science and Technology Projects, and International Cooperation Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published 3 monographs and over 240 papers, including 2 papers in Nature journals (Nature Geoscience/Nature Communication) and 1 paper in Science Robotics. More than 150 papers have been indexed by SCI. He has been granted over 120 invention patents. He has won 2 Second Prizes of National Technology Invention Award (ranked 1st and 2nd), 1 China Patent Silver Award (ranked 2nd), and 7 Provincial/Ministerial First Prizes (ranked 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th respectively). |
 | Prof. Haofeng ChenEast China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) In 1994, he received dual bachelor's degrees in Engineering Mechanics and Economic Management from Tsinghua University. He obtained his master's degree in Solid Mechanics in 1995 and his doctoral degree in the same field in 1998, both from Tsinghua University. Subsequently, he held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, senior researcher at the University of Leicester in the UK, and senior engineer at Alstom UK. Since March 2008, he has served as a lecturer, associate professor, and then professor at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. He became a Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China University of Science and Technology in 2014, and was appointed as a Chair Professor and doctoral supervisor in 2022. He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME Fellow) and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE Fellow). He served as the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology from 2010 to 2017 and is a Chartered Engineer in the UK. In 2018, he received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Overseas and Hong Kong/Macau Cooperation Research Fund (formerly the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Fund). He was selected as a Shanghai Overseas High-level Talent (QR) in 2019, received funding from the National Foreign Senior Scholar Fund in 2021, and was recognized as a National High-level Leading Talent in the same year. |