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.

 

 

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: To be updated...