Chair Professor Tianshou Zhao
Southern University of Science and Technology
Prof. Tianshou Zhao is an expert in energy science and engineering thermophysics. He received his Bachelor' s and Master' s degrees, both in Engineering Thermo-physics, from Tianjin University, China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He obtained State Natural Science Awards twice (2012, 2013), Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement (2018), Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020), Croucher Senior Fellowship award (2008). He is a fellow of the American Society Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Professor Zhao combines his expertise in research and technological innovation with a commitment to creating clean energy production and storage devices for a sustainable future. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of fuel cells, advanced batteries, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modeling.
Prof. Mingming Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
As a leading talent of ten thousand people, a national outstanding youth, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program, and a Class A talent of the Shenzhen "Peacock Plan", an expert in the National Key Science and Technology Special Expert Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology, deputy director of the Wind Energy Special Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, vice chairman of the IEEE PES New Energy Technology Subcommittee, and deputy editor in chief of "Renewable Energy", we conduct applied basic research on flow control and innovative design of large wind turbine blades, design of highly reliable wind turbines, and smart wind farms. Hosted the Ministry of Science and Technology's 863 Program, Key R&D Program, International Cooperation Projects, National Natural Science Foundation's Excellent Youth Fund, Key Fund, General Fund Projects, Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Hundred Talents Program", Leading Special Projects, etc. Published over 210 academic papers both domestically and internationally, including nearly 60 SCI indexed papers; More than 20 academic invitation reports at home and abroad; More than 20 invention patents have been applied for or authorized. Received more than 10 awards, including the AIAA Young Scholar Science and Technology Honor Award, the Outstanding Award for the Final Evaluation of the Hundred Talents Program, the Second Prize for National Energy Science and Technology Progress, the Second Prize for Science and Technology Contribution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the First Prize for China Energy Innovation, the Second Prize for Science and Technology in Beijing, the Second Prize for China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress, and the Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Young Scholar Award.
Prof. Bernd R. Noack
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Bernd R. Noack is National Talent Professor and Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Aerodynamics at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, keeping his Professorship and Chair of Turbulence Control at TU Berlin. His research team leads turbulence control and aerodynamic optimization for safer and greener ground and airborne transport. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on artificial intelligence and control of aerodynamic systems. In recent years, many of his flow control technologies employ artificial intelligence combined with advanced actuation and sensing hardware. One application focus is the low-altitude economy with unmanned air vehicles and air taxis in close collaboration with industry.
Prof. Noack's graduated summa cum laude as the youngest German PhD student in aerodynamics in that year as honored by the Hugo-Denkmeier award. His subsequent career lead through the leading institutions of engineering turbulence control, including the Max-Plank Society, German Aerospace Center (DLR), United Technologies Research Center, TU Berlin and CNRS with multiple secondary affiliations in Europe, USA and Australia. He has written over 300 refereed publications, including 2 US patents, 1 China Utility Model Patent, 6 books, over 150 international journal articles. 29 research publications have become citation classics. A recent publication has become the most cited publication in the number 1 journal of fluid mechanics. His work has been awarded with dozens of national and international awards. For instance, Research.com lists him among the Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists in China and worldwide. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society, got the first senior ANR Chair of Excellence in Fluid Mechanics as research director CNRS and was the only winner of an annual von Mises award of the International Association of the Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in 2005.