Invited Speakers | 特邀报告人
Xili Duan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Bio: Dr. Xili Duan is a Professor and Deputy Head (Graduate Studies) in mechanical engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Professor Duan received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manitoba, followed by postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Duan’s research interests include interfacial fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with applications in energy conversion and storage, thermal management, drag reduction, and protection of engineering structures in harsh marine environments. He has made significant research contributions, including three book chapters and over 150 journal and conference papers. Dr. Duan received several awards and honors, including the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence and the 2019 Terra Nova Young Innovator Award. He was selected to Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists List in 2023 and 2024. Dr. Duan is a registered Professional Engineer in Canada and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and was chair of the CSME Technical Committee on Advanced Energy Systems.
Xue Yang, Dalian Maritime University, China
Bio: Dr. Xue Yang is an Associate Professor at the College of Navigation, Dalian Maritime University. She graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. She worked in Safetec in Norway as senior consultant in Trondheim from 2019 to 2020. Her research focuses on the navigational safety of autonomous ships, risk assessment and decision-making, and human-machine collaborative risk identification. She is currently leading or participating in more than ten research projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program. Dr. Yang has published over 30 papers as the first or corresponding author in high-impact journals both domestically and internationally.
Liang Li, Ocean University of China, China
Bio: Liang Li is currently a full professor at the Ocean University of China. He received his BS and MSc degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and PhD degree from University of Strathclyde. He used to work as Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde before joining Ocean University of China in 2022. His research interests include but not limited to multi-use of offshore renewable energy, smart control of wave energy converter, coupled analysis and modelling of floating wind turbine, hydroelasticity, operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbine. He is awardee of NSFC’s International Young Scientist Award, CAE’s Distinguished Young Scholar, ASME’s Outreach Scholarship, ISOPE’s Outstanding Scholarship and IEEE’s Poster Award. He is also the key member of Huang Danian education consortium. Over the past 5 years, he has published over 20 SCI-cited journals as the first author and secured research funds from NSFC, EPSRC, Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Department of Science & Technology of Shandong Province.
Linjian Wu, Chongqing Jiaotong University, China
Bio: Linjian Wu, associate professor and doctoral supervisor worked in Chongqing Jiaotong University. In 2023, he was selected into the "Bayu Scholars" Young Scholar Program of Chongqing Municipality. Currently, he serves as the Executive Deputy Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for the Construction of the Yangtze River Shipping Project and Intelligent Channel Technology by the Ministry of Education. His main research interests include the durability evaluation of reinforced concrete structures based on big data and artificial intelligence models in marine environments, research and development of low-carbon cement-based materials and reinforcement of marine engineering structures, damage degradation mechanisms and long-term service performance evaluation of large port engineering structures, etc. He has presided over 6 national and provincial-level scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub- project of National Key Research and Development Program, sub-project of Chongqing Technological Innovation and Application Development Special Projects, etc. He has also participated in more than 10 vertical and horizontal projects, including general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and topics of the National Key Research and Development Program. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the special issue in the MDPI journal “Materials”, and has been appointed as a peer reviewer for multiple domestic and international industry journals including “Construction and Building Materials” “Journal of Building Engineering” “Ocean Engineering”, etc. He has published over 80 academic papers in “Composites Part B: Engineering” “Construction and Building Materials” and other journals or conference proceedings, including more than 30 high-level academic papers (indexed by SCI/EI). He has been granted over 20 national invention patents, 6 software copyrights, and participated in editing 2 textbooks. He has won 1 second prize and 1 third prize
Jinwei Sun, Ocean University of China, China
Bio: Dr. Sun is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the marine equipment basic science research center at the Ocean University of China. He received his BS, MSc and PhD degrees from Ocean University of China. His research interests include but not limited to the coupled analysis of offshore structures, hydroelasticity of very large floating structures, marine environment observation and multi-criterion decision making. He serves as a youth editorial board member of the Journal of Ocean University of China (Natural Science Edition), and is also a key member of Huang Danian education consortium led by academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Prof. Huajun Li. Dr. Sun is currently leading or participating in 6 research projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program and Major Science and Technology Innovation Projects in Shandong Province. He has published over 20 journal papers as the first or corresponding author, including 1 ESI highly cited paper.
Depeng Kong, China University of Petroleum (East China), China
Bio: Dr. Kong Depeng is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at China University of Petroleum (East China), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, a Young Expert of Shandong Province's Taishan Scholars Program, and a recipient of the Shandong Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. His research primarily focuses on the safe utilization of oil and gas, as well as new energy sources such as lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen energy. He has led over 20 national and provincial projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program. Kong has published over 80 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author, including 9 ESI highly cited papers and 1 ESI hot paper. He holds 15 authorized invention patents. He serves as an editorial board member for the SCI journal Fire and as a young editorial board member for top-tier SCI journals eTransportation, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Safety Science, and Journal of Safety and Environment. He is also a director of the IEEE PES Electric Vehicle Technology Committee (China) - Battery System Technology Subcommittee and a member of the Fire and Explosion Prevention Committee of the Chinese Association for Occupational Health and Safety. He has received several awards, including the First Prize for Technological Progress from the Chinese Association for Occupational Health and Safety, the Second Prize for Natural Science from Qingdao, the Young Scientist Award from the Public Safety Society, and the Young Scientist Award from Qingdao.