Speakers

Prof. Yupiter HP Manurung, UiTM Shah Alam, Malaysia

Prof. Yupiter HP Manurung is a full Professor at School of Mechanical Engineering in UiTM Shah Alam in Malaysia and currently holding posts as Director of Smart Manufacturing Research  Institute  (SMRI)  and  Leader  of  Research  Interest  Group  -  Advanced Manufacturing Technology (RIG:AMT). He is also a Professional Engineer (Ir-BEM), a Professional Technologist  (Ts-MBOT), a  Chartered  Engineer  (CEng-IMechE)  and member of Association of German Engineer (VDI) who received his A-Level, BSc, MSc and PhD in Manufacturing Technology from German universities. Additionally, he is a certified International/European/German Welding Engineer (IWE/EWE/SFI) and Laser Technologist as well as Laser Safety Officer from German Research Institutes. He has been supervising more than 200 bachelor students and postgraduate researchers, some  of  them  are  students  or  researchers  from  German  Universities. With  his postgraduate students and international research partners from Germany, Austria , Tunisian,  Cyprus  and  Ukraine,  he  has  been  publishing  high-impact  scientific publications in various international journals and conferences on Advanced Welding Technology, Virtual Manufacturing, Metal Additive Manufacturing and Weld Fatigue Integrity with financial support from national and international research grant such as E-Science, FRGS, DAAD, Erasmus+, ASEA-UNINET, GIP and various industries. He is an examiner of more than 15 postgraduate theses from all over the world, a reviewer of various international scientific journals and an evaluator of national and international research grants. Since 2016, he is an international research fellow at Professorship of Virtual Production Engineering in Technical University Chemnitz in Germany.

Prof. Honggang Dong, Dalian University of Technology, China

H-index: 27 (Scopus)

Prof. Honggang Dong achieved his Bachelor, Master and PhD Degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology in the year of 1998, 2000 and 2004, respectively. Then he joined Dalian University of Technology as a faculty member in September, 2004. He worked as a Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, from December 2005 to December 2007. He came back to School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology in January 2008 and worked there until now. His research fields of interest include dissimilar materials joining technology and metallurgy, composition design of welding materials, and numerical simulation of welding processes. 

Prof. Jingang Yu, Central South University, China

H-index: 43; i-index: 144

Doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor; Hunan Province Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund winner, Hunan Province ordinary colleges and universities young backbone teacher training object, Central South University "531" talent team construction of the third level candidate. He presided over 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 8 provincial and ministerial research projects (including 1 Hunan Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund), 1 innovation-driven project of Central South University (the third batch), and more than 10 other projects; As first/corresponding author in J Hazard Mater, Coordin Chem Rev, Sci Total Environ, Chinese Chem Lett, Chinese J Chem, Int J Biol Macromol, Ecotox Environ Saf,  Process Saf Environ,  J Environ Chem Eng, Sensor Actuat B-Chem,  Appl Surf Sci, Mater Sci Eng-C, Anal Chim Acta, Talanta,Microchim Acta and other journals published more than 100 scientific research papers; The paper has been cited more than 6,500 times.

Prof. Guilin Li, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China

Gui Yin Li, Ph.D., Professor, Clinical Medicine/Pharmacology Double Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD Supervisor, Second Professor of Guangdong Institute of Petrochemical Technology. He is mainly engaged in bioelectrical analysis, biomedical sensing and nano-targeted drug diagnosis and treatment. He has hosted two National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and seven provincial and ministerial projects. He has been awarded 3 Guangxi Science and Technology Progress Awards and Invention Awards, and has been honoured as "Furong Hundred Post Star" in Hunan Province and a young backbone teacher in Hunan Province. He has published more than 60 SCI scientific papers. He has applied for 45 national invention patents, 22 of which were granted.