Past Speakers 2024
Prof. Xingjian Jing
City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. JING received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, M.S. degree and PhD degree in Robotics from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, respectively. Thereafter, he received a PhD degree in nonlinear systems and signal processing from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.He is now a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Before joining in CityU, he was a Research Fellow with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, followed by assistant professor and associate professor with Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests include: Nonlinear dynamics, Vibration, Control and Robotics, with a series of 200+ publications of 9300+ citations and H-index 50 (in Google Scholar), with a number of patents filed in China and US.
Prof. Manoj Gupta
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director designate of Materials Science and Engineering Initiative at NUS, Singapore. He did his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada (1992). He is currently among top 0.6% researchers as per Stanford’ List, among Top 1% Scientist of the World Position by The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and among 1% among scientists as per ResearchGate. His international rank among Materials Researchers in World is currently at 1305. To his credit are: (i) Disintegrated Melt Deposition technique and (ii) Hybrid Microwave Sintering technique, an energy efficient solid-state processing method to synthesize alloys/micro/nano-composites. He has published over 650 peer reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents and two Trade Secrets. His current h-index is 79, citations greater than 21500 and reads greater than 100,000 (Research Gate). He has also co-authored eight books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF - USA. He is Editor-in-chief/Editor of twelve international peer reviewed journals. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India as a visiting researcher, professor and chair professor.
Prof. Ing Kong
La Trobe University, Australia
Ing Kong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at La Trobe University. She received both her first degree and PhD in Materials Science at National University of Malaysia in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) at University of Nottingham in 2015.
Prior to joining La Trobe, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for two years at National University of Malaysia (2009-2010) and RMIT University (2010-2011) and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at University of Nottingham from 2012 to 2017.
Her research interests are in the development of advanced materials, particularly functional polymer composites, magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials and superconductors and the additive manufacturing technology, which is one of the industrial technologies make up Industry 4.0 and. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, including 6 invited book chapters, over 60 refereed journal articles and more than 50 conference proceedings. She is serving as an editorial board member and a peer reviewer for many materials and mechanical engineering journals and she has chaired and co-chaired multiple international conferences.