Zhenhai Xia received his Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 1990. He served on the faculty of Hebei University of Technology as professor and department chair, and now a full Professor of Materials Sciece and Engineering of University of North Texas, USA. Dr. Xia received Nanoscience Research Leader Award 2015, and China Changjiang Scholar Award 2016, and served as an associate editor of J. Sci. Lett. He have authored and co-authored over 150 papers, and published 4 books/book chapter. The significance of my work is documented by numerous scientific and business presses such as MIT Technology Review, and New York Times.

(1) Nanomaterials for catalysts, battery electrodes, renewable energy conversion and storage (fuel cell, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors and solar cells); (2) Biological and biomimetic materials; (3) Sensors, sensing and damage detection for energy-related applications and (4) Multiscale modeling and simulation, combining quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, mesoscale modeling and finite element for energy-relation modeling and predictions

Prof. Prasad Yarlagadda worked in industry and university over 30 years in number of countries. He is currently Professor in Smart Systems and Project Director: Airports of the Future Research in Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He had number of distinguished appointments in various universities in India, China and Australia. He received more than $12M funding for his research for various national and international collaborators and he published more than 425 papers with number of key note speeches delivered across the world. In 2012 he received a Prestigious Great Honour Award for his outstanding and life time contribution to the discipline of manufacturing in world Arena from Materials Division of Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2016 Professor Yarlagadda was awarded Order of Australia Medal and included in Queens Birthday Honours list in recognition of his outstanding service to Engineering Profession and Indian Community in Queensland, Australia. He is Editor in Chief of Journal of Engineering Technology, Deputy Editor-in-chief, International journal of Achievements in Materials and manufacturing Engineering, International journal of Achieves of Materials Science and Engineering, and also editorial board member of 18 ISI listed Journals. Prof. Prasad had number of community leadership roles as President, Federation of Indian Communities of Queensland Inc., President, The India Australia Society Incl. President, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (Chapter-209). USA, Chair Person, GOPIO International Science and Technology council are among other leadership positions during past decade.

Digital manufacturing in luring 3-d printing, Bio Manufacturing, Tissue Engineering for orthooaefic applications and Computer vision and image processing applications for Biomedical engineering.

Ph.D, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005 Since 2001, Research Fellow, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2006-2007, postdoc, Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany. Prof. Dr. Zhu has published more than 90 papers in distinguished international journals such as Science, Scientific Reports, Acta Materialia, Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Mater. Res., Adv Mater Interfaces, Journal of Applied Physics, and Phil. Mag. (Lett). etc.

Ferroelectric domains; Microstructure and microanalysis of low-dimensional functional oxides, and the relationships with the properties. (Scanning)Transmission electron microscopy. Epitaxial Growth of perovskite-based oxide heterointerfaces by PLD technique

Professor Bo Liedberg is professor of Materials Science at the School of Materials Science and Enginering (MSE), NTU. He joined NTU as a full faculty in 2012 after having spent three years as visiting professor at MSE (on leave from Linköping University, LiU, Sweden). Professor Liedberg has been involved in setting up a new, university wide, initiative on Biomimetic Sensor Science jointly with faculties at NTU, and he is currently the director of the Center for Biomimetic Sensor Science (CBSS). Professor Liedberg is also serving as the Dean of Interdisciplinary Graduate School. Liedberg has published more than 280 papers/reviews in peer-reviewed international Journals and Magazines.

Professor Liedberg is a surface physicist/chemist by training, and he has a long experience in structural and function characterization of thin molecular films and self assembled architectures on solid supports. He has also been the Lead-PI for a strong activity in bio- and chemical sensing. Most of his current activities are devoted to biomimetics and the development of new and robust sensor technologies for field testing, e.g. of toxins and biomarkers for infectious diseases.

Prof AK Mishra is currently working as ‘Full Professor’ for University of South Africa and also working as ‘Adjunct Professor’ at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include nanomaterials & water research. Prof. Mishra has edited several books and also serves as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops. He also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals.

Nanomaterials, Waste water research and Materials sceince

Prof. P.S. Robi has completed his PhD inthe year 1995 from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He has around 25 years of teaching and resarch. Presently his is a Professor in the departemnt of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati. He has served as the Head, Departemnt of Mechanical Engineering and later as Dean R&D at IIT Guwahati. Prof. Robi has published more than 40 papers in peer reviewed International journals. Presently he is supervsing 11 doctoral thesis.

Aluminium alloy development, Hot deformation Mechanism Maps, High entropy alloys, Creep deformation of High temperture Materails

Dr. KuiLIU got his PhD from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1999. He is the leader of Materials for Special Engineering research group in the Division of Materials for Special Environment of IMR. He has published more than 40 papers and held more than 25 patents. He awarded high-rank national scientific and technological prizes for 3 times and got the “Innovations in Real Materials Award” on Superalloys with Low Segregation Controlled by Trace Elements in Washington, DC in 1998.

His main research interests lie in special melting and processing high purity reactive materials, the trace and minor element function on material properties. Some of his works like melting Ni base alloy, NiTi shape memory alloy, TiAl alloy have got significant progress with the support from his group and by international cooperation. And the results have got international recognition and award.

Claudio Cazorla obtained his PhD on Computational Physics in 2006 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain). As a postdotoral researcher, he worked in University College London (United Kingdom) and the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (Spain). Currently, he is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working in the School of Materials Science and Engineering in The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals, and delivered a number of keynote talks across the world. His research expertise is in the area of Computational Materials Science and Condensed Matter.

Complex oxide materials and heterostructures Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics Fast-ion conductors Thin films and surfaces Computational methods and Theory

Wenjun Zhang received his PhD from Lanzhou University in 1994. He is now a Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science of City University of Hong Kong, and he is also the deputy director of the Center Of Super Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF).

Semiconductor nanomaterials and devices, thin films and super-hard coatings, surface science and modification

Dr Ziqi Sun is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2009 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded with some prestigious awards and fellowships including the TMS Young Leaders Development Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (2015), Discovery Early Career Research Award from Australian Research Council (2014), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from AvH Foundation Germany (2009), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from Australian Research Council (2010), the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship from University of Wollongong (2013), etc. He has been serving for some honorary positions, such as Vice-Chair of Energy Committee within TMS USA, the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Editorial Board member of Journal of Materials Science and Technology (Elsevier Publishing), Guest Professor in Shenzhen Institute, Peking University, and Honorary Fellow in University of Wollongong. Ziqi is the program leader for two ongoing Australian Research Council Projects. He held the roles as symposium organizers and session chairs in some prestigious conferences such as TMS conference, MS&T conference, ACerS conferences, etc. He has published more than 75 papers in reupted journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Energy Materials, NPG Asia Materials, Nano Energy, etc.

Ziqi’s major research interest includes metal oxide nanomaterials and bio-inspired inorganic nanomaterials for sustainable energy harvesting, conversion, and storage.

Shaojun Guo is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment at Department of Energy&Resources Engineering, at College of Engineering, Peking University. He received his Ph. D from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, and J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, he was selected by Thomson Reuters into their prestigious list of World Most Highly Cited Researchers. He has also received numerous prestigious prizes including ISE-Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry and the Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts, etc. He has published more than 190 papers with over 14700 citations (H-index: 66).

Engineering nanocrystals and 2D materials for catalysis, renewable energy, optoelectronics and biosensors.

Nigel Shepherd recieved his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, and performed his postoctoral studies at the US Army Research Laboratory (Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate). He is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas, and has served as Graduate Coordinator, Interim Chair and ABET lead. He has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has served the community at conferences in a variety of roles including as committee chair and session chair/co-chair.

Electronic and optical materials and devices. Thin films. Physical vapor deposition and vacuum technology. Surface and interface phenomena. Physical electronics.

Dr. Chang Liu received his Ph. D.’s degree in materials science in 2000 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now a professor at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest focus on the controlled synthesis, property and application of carbon nanotubes. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited for more than 5900 times. He has authorized more than 40 patents, with 1 transferred and implemented.

Carbon nanotubes

Dong Ha Kim has completed his PhD in 2000 from Seoul National University and postdoctoral studies from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. He is Ewha Fellow and the director of National Leading Research Lab. He has published more than 130 SCI papers and registered 1 US and 26 Korean patents.

1. Multifunctional low-dimension hybrid nanomaterials for applications in energy storage & conversion, environmental remediation, light emission, theragnosis, memory; 2. Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) mediated biomedical diagnosis and therapy, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, enhanced light emission; 3. Nanofabrication, nanolithography, and nano-patterning via self-assembly of block copolymers

Professor Bai obtained his PhD degree from Lab. de la Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Ecole Centrale de Arts et Manufactures de Paris in1993. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University in 2006. His expertise is in the area of thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of particle/fiber filled polymer composites. He has published over 90 papers in journals.

Thermal/electrical/mechanical properties of graphene filled polymer composite. Processing and application of long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT).

Y.G. Ko, Ph.D is professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University. He has received his doctorate from POSTECH and continued his postdoctoral course at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT. He has been leading a research group of Plasticity Control and Mechanical Modeling Laboratory. He has published more than 100 SCI papers in the fields of physical deformation and chemical coating. The representative articles are ‘A Cross-Shear Deformation for Optimizing the Strength and Ductility of AZ31 Magnesium Alloys’ (Scientific Reports, 2016) and ‘Synergistic Influence of Inorganic Oxides (ZrO2 and SiO2) with N2H4 to Protect Composite Coatings Obtained via Plasma Electrolyte Oxidation on Mg Alloy’ (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017).

Prof. Ko and his research group have focused on (i) the development of the nanostructured materials via cutting-edge forming technology and (ii) the modification of the surface structure via plasma-based coating. Since 2003, his researches have combined expertise in controlling plasticity and manipulating microstruture of light metallic materials via asymmetrical rolling. On the other hand, the surface matter with functional performances in a variety of the applied science fields has been investigated by means of plasma electrolytic oxidation in the eletrolyte with organic/inorganic compounds. In addition, his current research activities concentrated on phase transformation and its kinetics through sub-zero and flash processings on ferrous materials in order to improve the combination of strength and ductility at room and high temperatures.

Dr. Zhu is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1998) and Ph.D. degree in Materials Processing Engineering (2003) at Tsinghua University. After Post Doc. studies in Japan and USA, he began his independent career as a faculty member at Tsinghua University (2008~present). His research involves multi-scale synthesis and assembly, characterizations and applications of materials. He has authored 2 books and 6 invited book chapters, received 16 CN patents, 1 US patent and published 200+ papers with a H-index of 50.

Low-dimensional materials

Dr. K. Iyakutti, is now Emeritus Professor in Department of Physics & Nanotechnology, SRM University. After getting the Ph.D., from University of Madras, he was Lecturer there in the Department of Nuclear Physics. He joined as Reader in Madurai Kamaraj University in 1984 and was appointed as Professor in 1987 and as Senior Professor in 1998. He has more than 35 years of Service(22 years as University Professor) in Teaching (PG) and Research. He has guided 24 Ph.D., and 40 M.Phil., Scholars. His area of Research is Computational Science and Physics including Nanotechnology. He has authored more than 330 research papers in International, National Journals and Conferences. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden and he has visited many Research centers abroad including ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, USA and National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Materials Research, Sendai Japan. He has co-authored a book “ Hydrogen storage in Carbon nanotube based materials”, Lambert Academic Publishing , 2016.

Computational design of new Nanomaterials

Jwo-Huei Jou is a professor of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering in National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and the president of the Chinese Organic Electronics Association. He received his Ph. D in Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program from University of Michigan in 1986. He joined IBM-Almaden Research Center USA as a Visiting Scientist from 1986-88. Jwo-Huei Jou has his expertise in high-efficiency organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), polymer, thin film stress, and expert system applications. He is a pioneer of the natural light-style OLEDs, and has received a prestigious “The IDA lighting design award” from the International Dark-Sky Association, USA for his “candle light-style OLED” invention.

Prof. Jou’s research interest includes high-efficiency organic light emitting diodes, natural-light like organic light emitting diodes, polymer, thin film stress, and expert system applications. He has been granted/filed 60 OLED-related patents (US, ROC, Japan, Korea and Canada), and published 96 OLED-related journal papers with an average Impact Factor of 4.5 and over 50 conference proceeding papers. He also published 46 papers on solvent diffusion in polyimide films, thin-film stress and polymer modification techniques. He has written 3 textbooks and 16 book chapters and magazines articles.

Xiang Ming Chen has completed his PhD in 1994 from Department of Metallurgy and Mateirals Science, The University of Tokyo. He is the Cheung Kong Professor and director of Insititute of Materials Physics, Zhejiang University. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 360 papers in the pier-reviewed journals. He received the Okazaki Kiyoshi Award in 2007, and was selected as a fellow of The American Ceramic Society in 2013. He currently serves as an associate editor of J. Am. Ceram. Soc., and on the editorial boards of Adv. Appl. Ceram. and J. Materiomics.

: multiferroic materials, microwave dielectric ceramics, ferroelectric and relaxor ferroelectric ceramics, and energy storage dielectric ceramics.

Dr. P.R. Soni has post graduation and Ph.D. degree in metallurgical and materials engineering. Presently he is Professor at the department of metallurgical and materials engineering. He has long career in teaching and research during which he has published more than sixty papers in the journals of repute and also has published two international books related to area of mechanical alloying. He has served as Head of the Department and Dean (academics) of the Institute. He is member of American Powder Metallurgy Institute (APMI) International and many other professional bodies.

Powder Metallurgy, Mechanical Alloying, Plasma Coatings, Composites and Nanomaterials.

Jiangwei Wang received his Ph.D. from Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of University of Pittsburgh in 2014. He joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2016. His research interests are in the nanomechanics, in situ characterization of energy-storage materials and in situ TEM technique. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers in these research fields.

Nanomechanics of materials, Energy-storage materials, In situ TEM technique

Dr. Bhattacharyya has completed his PhD PhD degree from Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart and Universität Stuttgart, Germany in the year 2006. He spent three years as post doc in different places of Germany (FZ-Juelich, IOM Leipzig) and USA (Virginia Tech). In the year 2009 he joined as faculty member at TIFR, Mumbai, India and in August 2015 moved at IIT Madras as an Associate Professor Among other scientific merits until now Dr. Bhattacharyya has published 35 papers in reputed international journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Indian Journal of Materials Science.

Development of new methodology related to TEM/STEM to study materials at atomic scale aiming to correlate with materials properties.

Hsu, Shih-Chieh has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from National Central University and postdoctoral studies from RCAS, Sinica. He is the Associate Professor of Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tamkang University. His work focus on optoelectronic devices, semiconductor and light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 23 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Light-emitting diodes 2-D materials Optoelectronics

Dr. Tamer Sebaey received his BS degree in mechanical and industrial Engineering at Zagazig University, in 2002 and MSc degree in mechanical design from the same University, in 2009. Dr. Tamer joined university of Girona in Spain as a PhD student funded from the government of Catalonia and got his degree in 2013. Few months later, he joined Qatar University as a postdoctoral researcher and, sometimes a part time assistant professor. Dr. Sebaey is currently an assistant professor in Qatar University.

Composites, Optimization , Applied Mechanics, Damage Tolerance, Impact resistance, Aeronautical structures, Crashworithness

Dr. Abhijit Pramanick is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He was awarded PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2009 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, for his work on dynamic electric-field-induced structural changes in ferroelectric ceramics. Subsequently, he moved to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he developed different neutron scattering techniques to understand the microscopic origins of functional responses in ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials. He has co-authored over 30 publications. He was awarded the prestigious Edward C. Henry Award by the American Ceramic Society in the years 2010 and 2012.

His current research interests include understanding composition-structure-property correlations in different ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials that are used in smart technolgies and energy applications. For his studies, he uses advanced X-ray and neutron scattering techniques and multiscale modeling methods.

Shaojun Guo is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment at Department of Energy&Resources Engineering, at College of Engineering, Peking University. He received his Ph. D from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, and J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, he was selected by Thomson Reuters into their prestigious list of World Most Highly Cited Researchers. He has also received numerous prestigious prizes including ISE-Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry and the Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts, etc. He has published more than 190 papers with over 14700 citations (H-index: 66).

Engineering nanocrystals and 2D materials for catalysis, renewable energy, optoelectronics and biosensors.

Dr. Chang Liu received his Ph. D.’s degree in materials science in 2000 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now a professor at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest focus on the controlled synthesis, property and application of carbon nanotubes. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited for more than 5900 times. He has authorized more than 40 patents, with 1 transferred and implemented.

Carbon nanotubes

Professor Bai obtained his PhD degree from Lab. de la Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Ecole Centrale de Arts et Manufactures de Paris in1993. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University in 2006. His expertise is in the area of thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of particle/fiber filled polymer composites. He has published over 90 papers in journals.

Thermal/electrical/mechanical properties of graphene filled polymer composite. Processing and application of long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT).

Wenjun Zhang received his PhD from Lanzhou University in 1994. He is now a Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science of City University of Hong Kong, and he is also the deputy director of the Center Of Super Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF).

Semiconductor nanomaterials and devices, thin films and super-hard coatings, surface science and modification.