General Chair

Steven Y. Liang

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Research Interests: precision engineering; extreme manufacturing; and technology innovation.

Steven Y. Liang received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1987. He was the Institute’s Founding Director of the Precision Machining Research Consortium, the Director of the Manufacturing Education Program, and the Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center from 1996 to 2008. He is a professor (tenured) and a Morris M. Bryan, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (permanently appointed) with the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Liang’s technical interests lie in precision engineering, extreme manufacturing, and technology innovation. He is a Fellow of ASME and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers International (SME). He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the SME Robert B. Douglas Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, SME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, and Outstanding Alumni Award of National Cheng Kung University. He served as the President of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI) and the Chair of the Manufacturing Engineering Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Co-Chair

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, Institute INAOE, Mexico

Namdar Saniei, Ontario Tech University, Canada

Zhe Chen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Technical Committee Chair

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Hong Hocheng, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China

Committee Members

Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, University of Babylon, Iraq

Akula Komuraiah, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

Andrey V. Radchenko, Tomsk State Architectural University, Russia

Antoine B. Abche, University of Balamand, Lebanon

Antoni Grau, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Atashipour Seyed Rasoul, Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran

Bai-Da Zhang, National University of Defense Technology, China

Cao, Giacomo, University Cagliari, Italy

Chin Hua CHIA, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

Chunguo Zhang, Chang’an University, China

Chunhong Chen, University of Windsor, Canada

Dhananjay M. Kulkarni, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

Dinesh Mohan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Emanuele Habib, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

En-bing Lin, Central Michigan University, USA

Fei Tao, Beihang University, China

Fengshou Gu, University of Huddersfield, UK

George K. Adam, University of Thessaly, Greece

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, Institute INAOE, Puebla, Mexico

Hamid Yaghoubi, Director of Iran Maglev Technology, Iran

Henry Leung, University of Calgary, Canada

Hongliang REN,  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Hongyun So, Stanford University, USA

Huang Sunan, Temasek Labs, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hui-Lin Chang, Samsung Electronics, Korea

Jianguo Cao, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Jingwei Zhao, University of Wollongong, Australia

Joseph Katz, Johns Hopkins University, USA

K. Osakada, Osaka University, Japan

Krzysztof Galkowski, University of Zielona Gora, Poland

Lee S. Langston, University of Connecticut, USA

Masaru Ishioka, Fukushima University, Japan

Minsan Shu, Tsinghua University, China

Mongkol Mongkolwonrojn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thailand

Muhammad Naufal Bin Mansor, University Malaysia Perlis, India

N. Jones, University of Liverpool, UK

N. Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes, MEPCO SCHLENK Engineering College, India

Nima Farzadnia, Housing Research Center, University Putra, Malaysia Sumiyoshi Abe, Mie University, Japan

Purvee Bhardwaj, Barkatullah University, India

R. Chandramani, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, India

Raju. K, St. Joseph Engineering College, India

Rangsu Liu, Hunan University, China

R.M.C. So, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Rongchang Zeng, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

S. Fassois, University of Patras, Greece

Simon X. Yang, University of Guelph, Canada

Sivaparthipan CB, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, India

Stanislav Prohorovich Nikanorov, Ioffe Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Steven Y. Liang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Toshiro K. Doi, Kyushu University, Japan

W. Cholewa, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Wenguang Li, University of Glasgow, UK

Xiaohong Wang, Aalto University, Finland, Researcher, China

Yohei Saika, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Yu-Lung Lo, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, China

Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA

Sponsor

International Association of Applied Science and Technology (IAAST)