General Chair

Steven Y. Liang

Professor, 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).

Technical Program Committee:

Chairs:

Professor Hong Hocheng, National Tsing Hua University

Professor Jianmei Wang, College of Mechanical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology

Members:

AKULA KOMURAIAH, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

Andrey V. Radchenko, Tomsk State Architectural University, Russia

Antoine B. Abche, University of Balamand, Lebanon

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, Senior Lecturer, 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

Eng. Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, University of Babylon, Iraq

En-bing Lin, Dept. of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, USA

Fengshou Gu, the University of Huddersfield, UK

Hamid Yaghoubi, Director of Iran Maglev Technology, Iran

Hongyun So, Stanford University, USA

Huang Sunan, National University of Singapore

Hui-Lin Chang, Samsung Electronics, South Korea

Jianguo CAO, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Jingwei Zhao, University of Wollongong, Australia

Joseph Katz, Johns Hopkins University, USA

K. Osakada, Fac. of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan

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

NIMA FARZADNIA, Housing Research Center, University Putra Malaysia

N. Jones, University of Liverpool, UK

N. Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes, MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SIVAKASI, INDIA

Purvee Bhardwaj, Barkatullah University, India

Rangsu Liu, Hunan University, China

Raju. K, St. Joseph Engineering College

R. Chandramani, DAYANANDA SAGAR INSTITUTIONS, India

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

Rongchang Zeng, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

S. Fassois, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

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

Steven Y. Liang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Sumiyoshi Abe, Mie University, Japan

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)