2021 Annual Academic Convention-Speakers

Prof. Tan has devoted himself to the education and research of biochemistry, biochemical analysis and molecular medicine for a long time. He first put forward a new concept of screening aptamer living cells, developed molecular probes and targeted drugs that specifically identify diseased cells such as malignant tumors, and established a variety of new methods and technologies for diagnosis and treatment of major diseases based on functional nucleic acids.

HUANG Yiping focusing on macroeconomic policy and financial reforms.
Between June 2015 and 2018, Professor Huang was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee in People’s Bank of China. Currently, he takes multiple roles as vice Chairman of Council at Public Policy Research Center and research fellow at Financial Research Center, both of which affiliate to the Counsellors’ Office of the State Council. As a director-level member of the Special Committee on Fintech Development and Research of the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA) and member of Chinese Economists 50 Forum, he also chaired academic committee of China Finance 40 Forum. Professor Huang also takes responsibilities of editor-in-chief of an English Journal China Economic Journal and vice editor of Asian Economic Policy Review. In his early career, Professor Huang was an assistant researcher at the Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council, senior lecturer of economics and program director of China’s Economy at the Australian National University, General Mills visiting professor of Economics and Finance to Business School of Columbia University. Besides his academic achievement, Professor Huang also gained abundant field experience by overseeing market as managing director and chief economist in APAC for Citigroup, managing director and chief economist for Emerging Asia for Barclays, and an independent director of China Life Insurance and MYbank. He also owns the honor to be consultant of SDR (Special Drawing Rights) Research Team and external advisor on Surveillance Task Force of International Monetary Fund. Professor Huang received his Bachelor degree of Agricultural Economics from Zhejiang Agricultural University, Master of Economics from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. in Economics from Australian National University.

Prof. Hong Minghui specializes in laser microprocessing & nanofabrication, optical engineering and applications. He has co-authored 10 book chapters, 24 patents granted, and 300+ scientific papers in Nature, Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Light: Science and Applications (a new Nature Publisher journal with the first impact factor of 8.472 in 2014) etc. and 50+ plenary/keynote/invited talks in international conferences. He is a member of organizing committees for Laser Precision Micromachining International Conference (2001~2015), International Symposium of Functional Materials (2005, 2007 and 2014), Chair of International Workshop of Plasmonics and Applications in Nanotechnologies (2006), Chair of Conference on Laser Ablation (2009) and Chair of Asia-Pacific Near-field Optics Conference (2013). Prof. Hong is invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (the Nature Publishers), Associate Editor of Science China, International Journal of Optomechatronics, Editor of Laser Micro/nanoengineering, Guest Editor of Applied Physics A and Industrial Laser Users. He is Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow, the University of Manchester, UK; Guest Professor of Zhejiang University, University of Science & Technology of China, Xiamen University and Nanjing University of Technology as well as Visiting Professor of Institute of Optoelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Hong is Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA), Fellow of International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Founding Fellow and Secretary General of International Academy of Photonics and Laser Engineering (IAPLE).

Dr. Jian Liu received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from East China Normal University. He also completed a joint training at Baylor College of Medicine as a Ph.D. student. Then he worked at Baylor College of Medicine and National Institute of Health (U.S.) as a Postdoc and a Research Fellow, respectively. His lab focuses on cancer biology to investigate how cancer develops, especially lung cancer

Dr. Yan Ge is a research faculty member at the University of Florida (USA). She obtained her PhD and MPH degrees from the University of Virginia (USA). Her training and research spans immunology and genetics, with a focus on the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and systemic lupus erythematosus. Her recent studies have identified a novel gene that significantly increases the risk for type 1 diabetes, and revealed how this gene and its genetic variants act in type 1 diabetes in humans. Her research has been funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (USA) and by the American Diabetes Association (USA).

Li-ping zhu, doctoral supervisor/associate professor, young scholars of seeking truth in ZheJiang university, the polymer science lab director, China-the Portuguese advanced materials joint innovation center associate director, Deputy director member of the youth special committee of the Chinese academy of desalination and water reuse, and member of the special committee for biomedical of the China members industry association, was selected to the new century 151 talent project of zhejiang province in 2017.
The main research directions are the structural design and controllable preparation of polymer separation membrane and porous material, the design and synthesis of polymer membrane, the surface modification and functionalization of membrane material, etc.It is dedicated to exploring new ideas and principles for high performance (high flux, high retention, anti-pollution, etc.) and multi-functionalization (biocompatibility, environmental response, selective adsorption, etc.) of separation membrane materials, and establishing and developing a series of new methods for preparation and modification of membrane materials.

Hanying Li is Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University. Since 2021, he is the Director of Department of Polymer Science and Engineering. His current research focuses on bio-inspired single-crystal growth and organic-single-crystal-based electronic and optoelectronic devices such as transistors and solar cells.

Prof. Tilo Kunath obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2003 investigating novel stem cell systems. His postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the University of Edinburgh were focused on neural induction and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. In 2007 he started his laboratory with a Parkinson’s UK Senior Fellowship at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Edinburgh. He has pioneered the use of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies to establish robust models of Parkinson’s to investigate disease mechanism, and for use in cell replacement therapies.

Dr. Lee received master and Ph.D degree in materials engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Prior to joining Zhejiang University, he worked on the research and development of advanced logic and memory technology for 10/7/5 nm node at IBM Research, NY.

Dr. Vasso Makrantoni is a Lecturer in Infection Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and holds a joint appointment at the Zhejiang University – University of Edinburgh Institute ( ZJU-UoE) in China. Her research focusses on how human fungal pathogens, in particular Candida albicans, remodel their genome in order to adapt in diverse environmental niches, and acquire antifungal drug resistance. Her lab employs a diverse toolkit combining genetics, genomics, live-cell-imaging and biochemistry to understand the molecular mechanisms that control genome remodelling in pathogen-host interaction systems and Candida clinical isolates. Vasso, obtained her PhD degree from St Andrews University, and carried out postdoctoral work with Prof. Mike Stark at the Wellcome Centre, University of Dundee and Prof. Adele Marston at the Welcome Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh. In 2021 she moved to Infection Medicine in Edinburgh to establish her independent research group.

CHEN Jiaxin is a Ph. D. studying Mechanics, Materials, and Structures at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Road and Bridge Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (2016). She earned a Master of Science in Structural Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017). Her current research interests focus on construction materials, multi-scale mechanics, additive manufacturing, material characterization including geopolymer composites, cement nanocomposites using a data-driven approach, depth-sensing experiments, material science techniques. She obtained Murphy's Fellowship and NSF and National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Early Career Attendee Fellowships.

Dr. Wang is a Postdoc Fellow in NIH, NINDS, His research Direction is Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease. Dr.Wang got PhD degree of Genetics from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Chinese Academy of Science in 2016. He work in National Institutes of Health as a postdoc fellow since June 2017. He studied the ADP-ribosylation factor 1 (ARF1) function in Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) and Neuron for three years in National Cancer Institute. By mice model, Dr. Wang demonstrated that the Arf1-mediated lipid metabolism sustains cells enriched with CSCs and its ablation induces anti-tumor immune responses in mice. Notably, Arf1 ablation in cancer cells induces mitochondrial defects, endoplasmic-reticulum stress, and the release of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), which recruit and activate dendritic cells (DCs) at tumor sites.

Dr. Celebi is a materials scientist, with a background in physics and mechanical engineering. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in physics from Bilkent University, Turkey and from MIT, USA, respectively. He received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2014, where his thesis focused on through-pore graphene membranes. After his PhD study, Dr. Celebi initially worked as a faculty member in the department of materials science at Bilkent University, and subsequently, as a senior scientist at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on nanomaterial synthesis, ultrathin membranes and functional coatings.

Hongzheng Chen is Qiushi Distinguished Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. Her research interests focus on the development of organic and organic/inorganic hybrid materials for optoelectronic applications, including solar cells and photodetectors

Dr. Shihua Wu's research interests are focuses on the chemistry and biology of natural products and biotoxins from natural resources with an emphasis on the discovery, separation and purification, structure identification, biosynthesis, molecular mechanism and targeted applications of important anti-cancer and anti-aging natural products, especially development of engineering Biology techniques and medicines with significant commercial value.

As a core member, he has participated in major national science and technology projects, major national fund projects, "Youth 973", Danish Independent Research Council Foundation major projects, etc., mainly engaged in basic research and technical research in the field of reliability of power semiconductor devices (power electronic devices). In the past five years, more than 30 SCI journal papers have been published, more than 20 national invention patents have been applied, and more than 10 have been authorized.

In 2016, Dr.Yuan graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in biomedical engineering, and then joined the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB) at the University of Southern California as a postdoc. He became senior research associate in 2020. In December 2021, he joined ZJE as an assistant professor. The research interest of the laboratory is craniofacial development, stem cell regulation and homeostasis, tissue repair and regeneration.

Dr. Ting is a Professor (and Department Head) Emeritus at Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Consultant and former Vice Dean, International Campus and Professor, ZJUI. He graduated from the National Taiwan University with a B.S. degree, the University of Kentucky with an M.S., and the University of Illinois with his Ph.D. All three degrees are in agricultural engineering. His research interest include Precision and Information Agriculture, Agricultural and Biosystems Management, Agricultural Safety and Health,Environmental Stewardship, Bio-sensors, Bio-instrumentation, Bio-informatics and Bio-nanotechnology, Intelligent Machinery Systems, Automation of Biological Systems, Advanced Life Support Systems.

Dr. Hu is expanding his epigenetic toolkit to include Hi-C, chromosome conformation capture technique. He integrated Hi-C datasets in purified human neurons and glia with transcriptomic and epigenomic datasets to elucidate the gene regulatory landscape of two major cell classes in the brain. By utilizing this powerful arsenal for studying the brain function, his overarching goal is to discover epigenetic mechanisms underlying neurological disorders, such as AD. In this work, he found that AD-associated epigenetic dysregulation was linked to downregulation of neuronal genes as well as upregulation of oligodendrocytic genes, whereas genetic risk factors for AD suggested microglial dysfunction. These findings suggest that AD is potentially mediated by a constellation of gene regulatory mechanisms that include differential enhancer networks and genetic risk factors that may exert their effects via different cell types.

SUN Hao, post-doc at Queen's University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto. In pursuit of his doctoral degrees, he has gained thorough training on using density functional theory calculations to investigate the mechanical properties of two-dimensional materials.
His current work involves using kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations to study the irradiation damage of metallic structures. Specifically, he is utilizing an off-lattice, self-learning KMC algorithm, featuring an efficient unbiased sampling method for finding transition states. Another project is to use the lattice-element method (LEM) to simulate the fracture process of brittle materials.

Qiang Zheng is Qiushi Distinguished Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests are in the polymer rheology, structure-properties relationship for multi-component polymeric materials and polymeric composites, especially the relationship between special dynamic viscoelastic behavior at low frequencies (long time region) and phase-separation, rheological behavior and functional properties.

Dr. Yang has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Wuhan University and a doctor's degree in biochemistry from Texas A & M University. He is now engaged in postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been engaged in the research of surface membrane protein NMR molecular dynamics, protein and nucleic acid structure biology, enzyme reaction kinetics for a long time, and has made many innovative achievements. She published 8 papers in nature chemical biology, PNAs, JACS and biophysical J. as first author or co-author.

Yiqiao Sun is currently a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University supervised by Prof. Francois Penz. Her research interests focus on moving image, lived space in architecture/city, and patterns of daily behaviour. She
previously completed a B.S. and a M.S. (with Distinction) in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Dr. Lingfeng Meng obtained his doctorate in 2013 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, then joined the Duke University Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2020, he moved to Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, where he worked as a research assistant. In 2021, Lingfeng joined the ZJU-UoE Institute as an assistant professor. He uses the tiny roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans as a model, combined with cutting-edge fluorescent live imaging, molecular genetics, and genome editing approaches, to address questions related to neural development, particularly interested in the regulation of electrical synapses and mitochondrion DNA during neural development and aging.

Dr. Xiaolong Hu is a professor in the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering at Tianjin University. He obtained his B. S. and M. S. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and obtained his Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. His Ph. D. thesis is relevant to superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). After postdoctoral training in the United States, he joined Tianjin University as a full professor in 2014, established and leads the Nanophotonics Group at Tianjin University (http://nanophotonics.tju.edu.cn/index.htm). Professor Hu is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of Optica, and a member of SPIE. In 2013, he was awarded OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award; in 2014, he was awarded Peiyang Scholarship by Tianjin University; in 2016, he was honored as Young Talents of Science and Technology by Tianjin City. He is now serving as an associate editor of OSA Continuum, an associate editor of Frontiers in Photonics (Quantum Optics specialty section), a committee member of the superconducting-electronics sub-society, Electronic Society of China.

Dr. Wang's research include that patterned cell divisions require a precisely oriented spindle that segregates chromosomes and determines the cytokinetic plane. Whereas in mitotic cells spindle orientation is largely controlled by microtubule-based mechanisms, those during meiotic divisions are different due to the lack of astral microtubules. We show that spindle rotation during meiosis II in mouse oocytes involves hydrodynamic forces produced by two actin cytoskeletal systems, regulated respectively by Arp2/3 complex and myosin-II. These forces are initially balanced but become asymmetric after chromosome segregation to produce a torque on the spindle. Symmetry breaking results from RanGTP gradient signaling between the chromatin and cell cortex and competition between Arp2/3 complex and myosin-II mediated actin assemblies. Centralspindlin-cortex interaction provides the necessary pivot point for spindle rotation.

PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2015
BSE in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2012

Prof. Chao Gao joined the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, and was promoted as a full Professor in 2008. In 2001, he was a faculty member in SJTU, and Associate Professor in 2002. Since Nov. 2003, he worked with Prof. Sir Harry Kroto as a visiting scholar and postdoc research fellow in the University of Sussex, UK, and then moved to Prof. Axel H. E. Müller’s group at Bayreuth University, Germany in July 2005 as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.

Professor Spencer is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and distinguished expert in the field of civil engineering, mainly focusing on intelligent structures. He pioneered research and development of smart dampers based on magnetorheological fluid technology, enabling the world’s first engineering application. He made breakthroughs in open-source hardware/software architectures for wireless sensor technology for structural heath monitoring and achieved the world’s largest implementation of smart sensors. He led the National Science Foundation’s Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) system integration project and built the most advanced real-time hybrid simulation load and boundary condition system. He has also developed computationally-efficient solutions for topology optimization of stochastically excited structures. He has published more than 360 papers and been cited 40,855 times with h-index of 82. He has been selected as "Global Highly Cited Scholar in Civil Engineering" by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and Elsevier. Finally, he is the Chair of the US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation and has hosted more than 120 Chinese students and scholars to work in his laboratory, which are now making important contributions to the improvement and internationalization of civil engineering in China.

Yuwen Dai, PhD CFA, is Associate Professor of Economics at ZIBS. She is a CFA charterholder, and received her Doctor of Philosophy in Economics degree from the University of York in England. Prior to joining ZIBS, Dr. Dai had extensive teaching and research experience in Australia, United States, United Kingdom, and China. Dr. Dai has also worked as a consultant for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila Philippines. As a global citizen, she has living experience in 6 countries across 4 continents, and has traveling experience to over 60 countries across 5 continents.

Dr. Wanlu Liu completed her PhD degree at University of California, Los Angeles. Then she worked as postdoctoral research associate in University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on studying epigenetics mechanisms in gene regulation and developing tools for epigenome targeting.

Dr. SHI Jingkui is the founder and CEO of Zinsight technology Company, He graduated from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2012, then he joined GE Global Research Center. In GE, His topic was about SiC packaging and serialization technology and high power drive system. He achieved multiple rewards like Young Scientist and Technical Achiever Award. Jingkui founded Zinsight technology Company in 2019 focusing on sic technology and products. He leads the team produced SiC based high speed drive inverter and high power DCDC with best marketing share in fuel cell vehicle and electrical vehicle application.

Mário Adolfo Barbosa is the Emeritus Professor of University of Porto. He has taken leading positions in Portugal, namely as President (1992 to 1994) and Chairman of the Engineering Sciences Scientific Council (2002 to 2005) of the national agency for research (first JNICT and then FCT). The main topic of his research is the modulation of inflammation in tissue repair/regeneration, namely through the design of immunomodulatory microenvironments.

Musculoskeletal disorders affect one in two adults and result in enormous economic and medical burdens, fueled by the rapidly growing aging population and increased awareness of the sports medicine field. The total volume of Chinese sports medicine market is expected to reach 58 billion in 2022, with an annually growth rate of 21%. Despite significant progress with improved surgical techniques and the development of innovative drugs and biomaterials, injured musculoskeletal tissues typically fail to regenerate, accompanied with significant pain and restricted movement. To address these unmet clinical needs, my research program aims to decipher cues of mechanobiology and development biology and combine them with tissue engineering for promoting musculoskeletal tissue regeneration. In today’s talk, I will first cover how cells sense biophysical loading and then regulate tendon development and homeostasis. This understanding will motivate the development of pharmaceutical targets for enhancing physical therapies. Secondly, I will discuss my findings of tissue-specific stem cells and their application potential and strategies in regeneration medicine.

Ph.D. IE Purdue University 1987
M.Tech. ME Indian Institute of Tech., Bombay 1982
B.E. ME University of Bombay 1980

Zhikang Xu is Qiushi Distinguished Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. He is now as the vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering of Zhejiang University. His research focuses on membranes for water/wastewater treatment, polymer membranes and their surface/interface engineering. especially in controllable interfacial polymerization, surface biomineralization, surface antifouling, enzyme immobilization, and surface nanostructures.

Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell is an Associate Professor and the Elaine F. and William J. Hall Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on creating sustainable water and energy systems in a policy-relevant context. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri (2006), and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (2010), M.P.Aff in Public Affairs (2010), and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2013) from The University of Texas at Austin. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the UCOWR Early Career Award for Applied Research for her research work on the energy-water nexus. She was honored with the 2015 Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Woman of Distinction Award in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, the 2018 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2018 AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering and Science. Dr. Stillwell has also been included on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students at Illinois. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois and was previously Chair of the Board of Directors of Faith in Place.

Dr. Wan Feng is an Associate Professor at ZIBS. Prior to joining ZIBS, he was an Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia and a lecturer at Business School of Beijing Normal University.
Dr. Wan Feng's research focuses on innovation management, competitive strategy and industrial clusters. He has published in journals such as Management International Review, Technovation, International Business Review, and Technological Forecasting & Social Change. He has applied the research results to practice, cooperated with regional clusters and science parks, and provided management and innovation consulting, including London financial cluster, London media cluster, Cambridge Science Park, Norwich Science Park, Luoyang National University Science Park in China, and Dubai Science Park.

Dr. Chan obtained his PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Hull, UK in 2008. Upon graduation, he continued working at his PhD lab as a Wellcome Postdoctoral fellow for 2 years continuing his work on Trypanosome research. In 2010, he moved to the CRUK Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester where we worked with Prof. Iain Hagan to study the role of the eukaryotic centrosome in regulating the cell cycle, using fission yeast as a model organism. In 2018, he joined Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh (ZJE) as a tenure track Assistant Professor, establishing his independent research group to study the impact of centrosomal abnormalities on cell cycle deregulation in cancer.

Dr. Yaoguang Ma is a Professor in the College of Optical Science and Engineering directing the NanoOptics Group at Zhejiang University. Dr. Ma received his Ph.D. degree focusing on Nanophotonic devices with Prof. Limin Tong in College of Optical Science and Engineering from ZJU in June 2012. After that, he has been postdoc researchers at Peking University, UCSD, and CU Boulder. Since January 2018, he started his faculty career as a tenure-track Professor at ZJU.
The NanoOptics group led by Prof. Yaoguang Ma at Zhejiang University focuses on the study of light-matter interactions at mesoscopic-scale, and micro/nano-techs stem from these interactions for advanced applications in photonic, electronic, and energy systems. The current research theme includes metamaterials and metasurface related devices, micro/nano optical fiber systems, nonlinear optical devices, etc. Our research spans over multiple disciplines, covering the fundamental exploration and engineering realization of low-dimensional photonic structures.

Rodrigo F. P. Martins is a Full Professor with “habilitation” at Materials Science Department (DCM) of Faculty of Sciences and Technology of New University of Lisbon (FCT-UNL). He is now the President of European Academy of Sciences and also the President of International Union of Materials Research Society. He has focused on materials for energy, optoelectronics and nanotechnologies.

Dr. Xie's laboratory is interested in the regulation of energy and nutritional metabolism via three aspects, identifying essential regulatory factors in systemic metabolism, understanding how gut microbiota regulate host metabolism and developing new drugs for treatment of metabolic diseases. They utilize genetic mouse models, cell culture, various omics techniques and selfdeveloped bioinformatics tools to understand the molecular mechanism key factors during disease development and progression and develop therapeutic strategies for pre-clinical trial of several metabolic diseases such obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Jingfan Wang hold a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University and an honorary degree from Chu Kochen Honors College. His research interest is applying robotics and computer vision in industrial settings. He published ~20 papers in top journals including Joule, Applied Energy, with a citation of 962 from Google Scholar. His academic achievements have been widely reported by Fortune, Stanford University officials, etc. He has won several awards and honors, including Shanghai Overseas High-level Talents, the 7th China International "Internet +" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Finals 3rd place (representing Zhejiang University in the competition, news coverage by Xinwen Lianbo), Forbes China 30 Under 30, Global Shaper at World Economic Forum, Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.

Baoku Zhu is currently a full professor at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests cover synthesis of amphiphilic polymers, processing of nano particles to functional membranes and coatings, ultrafiltration and nan filtration membranes.

Dr. Zhonghua Zheng is an Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellow (effective January 2022) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and an invited participant for the Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XVI). His research interests include urban climate and environment, environmental data science, and air quality and aerosol properties. His research has been supported by Microsoft (AI for Earth), Amazon Web Services (Earth on AWS), and US National Science Foundation (via the ASP fellowship).He worked a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University with Profs. Arlene M. Fiore (now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Prof. Daniel M. Westervelt. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Computational Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in December 2020 and a B.Eng. in Biosystems Engineering from Zhejiang University. He has chaired international conference sessions (for example, the International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms Conference and the Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science) and interned at Bayer for three years as a Data Scientist Intern (January 2018 to December 2020).

Dr. Wang Cheng is an Associate Professor at ZIBS. Prior to joining ZIBS, he was an Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University, a lecturer at Durham University and Newcastle University. He was awarded the "Excellent Scientific Research Award” of International Business School Suzhou at Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University (IBSS) and the “Dean Award” of IBSS for excellence in researching and teaching. And he has participated in Higher Education Academy, teaching training program of the University of Newcastle in the UK and the part-time teacher training program of the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Dr. Xianghua Li received her PhD at MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh, UK in 2013. She did her post-doctoral training at CRG/EMBL systems biology department at CRG, Spain. Dr. Li’s main research interest is solving challenges in genotype-phenotype mapping by unveiling unknown mechanisms of how genetic variations control phenotypic variations.

Yaocheng Shi received the B.Eng. degree from the Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 2008. Then he joined inZhejiangUniversityas an assistant professor and became a professor in Dec. 2016. He has authored more than 100 refereed international journal papers.His research activities are in the photonic integrated devices.

Paulo Ferreira is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon, as well as the Head of the Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy Center and the Leader of the Atomic Structure-Composition of Materials Group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL). He concentrates his scientific research in the areas of Materials Science, Nanomaterials and Electron Microscopy applied to alternative energy materials and 2D materials.

Dr. Hui Jiang obtained B.S. degree from Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University in 1998. He obtained Ph.D degree from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. He performed a post-doctoral research in School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2004 to 2008. Research field: Dr. Jiang’s group aims to identify new structural medicine candidates from microbial secondary metabolites by combination of synthetic biology, bioinformatics, organic chemical synthesis, and characterization of biological activity in order to help people to solve microbial drug resistance problem.

Mr. Chen Yusen, born in 1992, obtained his B.Eng from Zhejiang University in 2014, majoring in computer science. He is the core member of the blue-lotus team, the first Chinese team that successfully broke into the finals of the world's top hacking competition DEFCON CTF. He co-founded and was the CEO of Chaitin Tech in 2014 (acquired by Alibaba in October 2019).
In July 2021, he established a new startup, Hangzhou Jiaogeimaoba Technology Co. Ltd, focusing on game research with cutting-edge techniques in the field of AI and computer graphics, with the goal of create a virtual world that brings players with immersive experience.

Xinghong Zhang is a full Professor of the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests are polymer chemistry, including the synthesis of sustainable polymers, sulfur-containing polymers, and carbon dioxide-derived polymers, functional polymer materials including solid polymer electrolytes and luminescent polymers.

Prof. Zhu was selected by National High-level Youth Talent Plan, and currently is the Yuelu scholar (Distinguished professor) at Hunan University. He has been the PI over more than 10 research projects, including one key project and one general project founded by the National Natural Science Foundation China. He has published more than 120 SCI/EI articles in top journals such as Composites Science and Technology and China Civil Engineering Journal, and four book chapters with more than 2400 citations by Scopus (h index=31). He is serving as the editorial board member of academic journals Materials Reports and Journal of Building Materials, and was honored as excellent doctoral thesis instructor in Hunan Province.

Professor Liu Jian, a ZJU100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University since November 2019. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Dawn Song. he got my PhD in July 2018 from Aalto University, working with Prof. N. Asokan. My research is on Applied Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Blockchains and Machine Learning. He is interested in building real-world systems that are provably secure, easy to use and inexpensive to deploy.

Dr. Yijuan Zhang is an NRSA T32 postdoctoral fellow in the NCI-designated cancer center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Her research interests are centered on uncovering the pro-tumorigenic role of the pancreatic cancer stroma and identifying novel targets for pancreatic cancer therapy.

Dr. Changyou Gao has published over 50 granted patents, 11 books/book chapters, and over 300 papers in pear-reviewed journals such as Agnew. Chem., Adv. Materials and Biomaterials (WOS H-index 57, citations > 8000). He has delivered 75 invited/plenary lectures, and (co)organized 7 international conferences on biomaterials. He was awarded with the National Science Fund award for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2004. He was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2017, and a fellow of the International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2016. He was awarded twice for the 1st level award of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province.
His research is focused on the development of biomaterials for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery and cellular interaction. In recent years he has been focusing on the gradient biomaterials and colloidal biomaterials for regulating cell migration and cellular uptake, and regenerative biomaterials for cartilage/subchondral bone regeneration. These leading works enabled him to be a PI for 4 key projects of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and 6 regular projects of NSFC, and 1 National Key Research and Development Program, and a co-PI of the National Major State Basic Research Program of China (973 program, 3 projects), and Frame Work Program 7 of European Commission (3 projects) and H2020.

João F. Mano (CEng, PhD, DSc, Dr. h.c., FEurASc, FBSE) is a Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is directing the COMPASS Research Group, from the Associated Laboratory CICECO. His research interests include the use of advanced biomaterials and cells towards the progress of transdisciplinary concepts to be employed in regenerative and personalised medicine.

Dr. Jinying Li received PhD degree from Zhejiang University and won the honorary titles of Outstanding Graduate student, Merit Graduate Student, national Scholarship, Doctoral post Grant, Huang Ziyuan Scholarship, etc. She focused on regenerative biomedical study for the cell therapy by using perinatal stem cells such as amniotic epithelial stem cells and umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells; and established a serum-free culture system with the approval of CFDA safety evaluation, and in-depth conducted study of cellular therapeutic effect for autoimmune diseases, retinal degenerative diseases, myocardial infarction (combined with biomaterials), liver fibrosis and other fibrotic diseases. Furthermore, she published 6 papers and authorized 2 patents, and won the Abstract Award of China Translational Medicine Conference and attended the academic seminar at University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Chen Shangyu obtained his PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joins Search Rank team in Alibaba Corporation as Algorithm Engineer. His research interests include model compression (quantization/pruning), especially on efficience optimization in large-scale machine learning system.

Dr. Changyou Gao has published over 50 granted patents, 11 books/book chapters, and over 300 papers in pear-reviewed journals such as Agnew. Chem., Adv. Materials and Biomaterials (WOS H-index 57, citations > 8000). He has delivered 75 invited/plenary lectures, and (co)organized 7 international conferences on biomaterials. He was awarded with the National Science Fund award for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2004. He was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2017, and a fellow of the International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2016. He was awarded twice for the 1st level award of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province.
His research is focused on the development of biomaterials for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery and cellular interaction. In recent years he has been focusing on the gradient biomaterials and colloidal biomaterials for regulating cell migration and cellular uptake, and regenerative biomaterials for cartilage/subchondral bone regeneration. These leading works enabled him to be a PI for 4 key projects of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and 6 regular projects of NSFC, and 1 National Key Research and Development Program, and a co-PI of the National Major State Basic Research Program of China (973 program, 3 projects), and Frame Work Program 7 of European Commission (3 projects) and H2020.

Dr. Baojing Gu is a professor at College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, China. He was trained as an ecologist with an emphasis on biogeochemical nitrogen cycling analysis and modelling from Zhejiang University in China and the University of Alberta and McGill University in Canada. Currently, he is co-leading the cost and benefit analyses of global nitrogen use under the framework of International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) to improve our understanding on the interactions between human and the nitrogen cycles. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including some top-ranked journals such as Nature and PNAS.
He attempts to better quantify the cost and benefit of nitrogen use and loss and understand how nitrogen cycling link to policy and management. He found that small farm size potentially leads to overuse of agricultural chemicals with socioeconomic development, and urbanization can release more croplands and benefit food security. Currently, his research interest focuses on sustainable development of agriculture to produce more food with less pollution, involving urbanization and rural development, agricultural resource and environment, policy regulations, management for sustainable development.

Dr. Baicun Wang is currently a Research Professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), China. Before joining ZJU, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, from 2016 to 2020. Dr. Wang's research interests focus on research, innovation, and applications of human-centered new-generation intelligent manufacturing based on human-cyber-physical systems (HCPS) theory, which include: (1) HCPS & Intelligent Manufacturing, (2) Energy Conversion & Management, and (3) Technology Management & Strategy. Baicun serves as a reviewer for over 10 international scientific journals, including Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Nano Energy, and Applied Energy.

Dr. Hongyao Yu was graduated from College of Life Sciences/Zhejiang University in 2006 and received Ph.D. Degree from Institute of Health Sciences/Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai in 2013. Now he is a Scientist of Kelly Government Solutions and has been assigned to a full-time position in NIEHS. Dr. Yu uses embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and cancer stem cells as model systems to investigate the roles of chromatin remodelers and epigenetic factors in cell fate control. In combination with high throughput genetic screen and multi-omics approaches, his research aims to uncover novel factors in the regulation of pluripotent state maintenance, transition, and cell fate determination for basic study and translational medicine. Dr. Yu has published 5 articles in Nucleic Acids Res, J Cell Sci, Cell Death & Disease as first author and/or correspondence author and coauthored 13 articles in Science, Circulation, Cell Research etc. He is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Genetics and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology and also serves as a reviewer for the journals of Cell death & Disease, Stem cell Research and Therapy, etc.

Director of the Institute of Intelligent Sensing and Micro-Nano Integration, University of Information and Telecommunications, Deputy Director, Professor and Doctor of Zhejiang Micro-Nano Intelligent system Application Laboratory.
He has published 120 papers in SCI journals such as NC, Acs Nano, AM, quarterly TOP10 papers of the Royal Society, Elsevier high citation papers, etc. There are 41 international conference papers, including 12 invited papers and 5 keynotes keynote speeches. 93 invention patents were applied and 57 were authorized. To undertake 15 key R & D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 863 projects, national fund key and surface projects, Zhejiang key R & D projects, etc. It has won the second prize of scientific and technological progress in national colleges and universities, the second prize of natural science in national universities, and the second prize of scientific and technological progress in Zhejiang Province.

J. Miguel Oliveira BSc, Ph.D. (Portuguese, M, 43 years old) is a Principal Investigator with Habilitation at the PT Government Associate Laboratory ICVS/3B’s. He is the Vice President of I3Bs - Institute 3B's (Univ. Minho). he has focused his work on the field of biomaterials for tissue engineering, nanomedicine, stem cells, and cell/drug delivery.

Dr. Yangyang Shao is a pioneer in the field of synthetic microbiology. As the first author, she has published many papers in international authoritative academic journals such as Nature, Cell Research, Nature Protocols, etc., and her achievements have been awarded " Top 10 Scientific Advances in China", "40 Landmark Achievements of the CAS for 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up", etc. Dr. Shao was named as one of the “35 Innovators Under 35” of the MIT Science and Technology Review in China.

QIU Huilian is a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. Her research area is Societal Computing. Her research topics center around how to sustain open-source software. One hallmark of her research is interdisciplinary: she uses social sciences and humanities theories to guide her experiment design and help her interpret modeling results. Her research methods include big data analysis, social network analysis, natural language processing, etc. Her paper won the Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2019.

Professor Welburn currently has projects in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and Tanzania, focusing on interventions for disease control.Her research has focused on the interactions between parasites and their vectors and hosts that lead to transmission of human sleeping sickness. This has involved a dissection of the mechanisms of innate resistance of vectors to parasite infections and the complex interactions between host, vector and parasite that result in parasite differentiation, disease transmission and epidemiology and control. Recent research has concentrated on the design and use of molecular diagnostic tools for the study and management of sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis, and integrated control methodologies for control of the Neglected Zoonoses. This has encompassed research ranging from ‘grass-roots’ fieldwork in Africa to laboratory-based dissection of the problems at the gene level.

Dr. Simon Hu is an Assistant Professor at the ZJU-UIUC Institute at Zhejiang University. He has a background in Civil Engineering and specialises in Transport and Environment Engineering. In 2006, he completed his Master's degree in Transport and Sustainable Engineering from Imperial College London; he earned his PhD in Transport System Engineering in the same department in 2011. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport Engineering (CIHT) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE). In the past, he obtained research grants and undertook research projects through the Royal Society, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Department for Transport (DfT), European Commission, INNOVATE UK and industry. To date, he has obtained a total grant value of more than £2million. He has also obtained fundings from Natural Science Fundation of China, Mnistry of Science and Technology, China. He has published 27 peer-reviewed journal papers, 40 conference proceedings, and 2 government reports.

Dr. DAI Xinzhu is a senior research fellow at Shanghai Gold Exchange, and a research fellow at ZIBS Law & Finance research Lab. Dr. Dai has a PhD in Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and completed her post-doctoral research at Fudan University. Her research interests include: Financial Regulation, Financial Market Infrastructure, Tax Law.

Dr. Rong Li achieved the BE of Environmental Science and Engineering in Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2007. Then she joined Dr. Xiaodong Wang’ lab in Nanjing University studying about the interactions of estrogen receptor and its ligands using computational modeling and obtained the MS of environmental chemistry in 2010. Following that, she received the PhD of Toxicology in the University of Georgia in 2016, mainly focusing on environmental and genetic factors on female puberty and reproductions. Since then, she joined Dr. Francesco DeMayo’s lab in NIEHS as a post-doc to study the functions of Progesterone receptor (PGR) in uterine biology. She identified that the two PGR isoforms, PGRA and PGRB have conserved activities in the mouse uterine epithelium and the decreased PGRA or PGRB expression is critical in maintaining pregnancy. In contrast, constitutive PGRB not PGRA expressions promote the tumorigenesis of mouse ovaries. She also revealed the key roles of Tripartite Motif Containing 28 (TRIM28) in modulating estrogen and progesterone receptor activities in human endometrial cells and mouse uterus. In total, she published 6 first-author papers in the journals including Science Signaling, Biology or Reproduction, Endocrinology, and 18 co-author papers in the journals including PNAS, FASEB, Scientific Reports. etc. She was awarded with lalor foundation fellow by the Society for study of Reproduction.

Dr. Hu earned the Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at Tsinghua University in China, and obtained his Ph.D. in the ECE department working with Prof. William P. King in 2014. He then joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral research scientist for almost 3 years. He has led projects in both academia and industry, resulting to 41 peer-reviewed journal papers published in 22 international-recognized journals covering engineering, mechanics, chemistry and biology. Moreover, he has filed 26 US patent disclosures (16 patents granted) and 6 Chinese patents (3 granted). One of the Chinese patent was converted to a start-up company. He is interested in advanced nanomanufacturing, bio-inspired sensing, micro/nano-sensors, lab on chip. He is now leading the Nanomanufacturing and Biomimetics Research Group at ZJUI.

João Rodrigues (Prof. Dr.) is, since 2006 the Director of CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira/Madeira Chemistry Research Centre, a National Research Laboratory (FCT/UID674) hosted by the University of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal. Currently, he develops research on molecular materials, namely, dendrimers, polymeric metal-containing systems, nanoparticles, and nanofibers for biomedical applications.

Dr. Yong Wang was an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen before he joined Zhejiang University in July of 2021. He holds BSc degrees in Computer Science (minor) and Chemistry (major) from Jilin University and an MSc degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work during this period focused on answering basic biophysical problems e.g. in the areas of protein folding, intrinsically disordered proteins, and large-scale conformational changes in folded proteins using coarse-grained models and enhanced sampling methods. In 2013 he move to Denmark to pursuit his PhD in Biochemistry under the supervision of Kresten Lindorff-Larsen and obtained the degree at the end of 2016. His lab has wide international collaborations with experimental groups by integrating e.g. HDX mass spectrometry, NMR, CryoEM, and SAXS experimental data with molecular simulations and modeling.

Chongwen Huang,obtained his B. Sc. degree in 2010 from Nankai University, Binhai College, and the M.Sc degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC, Chengdu) in 2013. He joined the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS, Beijing) as a research engineer from Jul. 2013. Since Sep. 2015, he started his Ph.D. journey in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD, Singapore) and CentraleSupélec University (Paris, France), under the supervision of Prof. Chau YUEN and Prof. Mérouane DEBBAH. From Oct. 2019 to Sep. 2020, he is a postdoc researcher in his mother University SUTD. Since Sep. 2020, he joined into Zhejiang University as a tenure-track assistant professor.
His main research interests are focused on Holographic MIMO Surface/Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface, B5G/6G Wireless Communication, mmWave/THz Communications, Deep Learning technologies for Wireless communications, etc. He was a recipient of Singapore Government Ph.D. scholarship, and received PHC Merlion Ph.D. Grant 2016-2019 for studying in CentraleSupélec, France. In addition, he also received more than 10 outstanding scholarships coming from China and industries, which involves the ``Tang Lixin'' Overseas Scholarship, National Postgraduate Scholarship, National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-funded Students, etc.

Dr. Chaochen Wang completed his PhD degree in Shanghai institute of biochemical cells, Chinese academy of sciences. From 2009 to 2018, he worked in National Institute of Health(U.S.) as a visiting scholar, researcher and full-time scientist. His research interests are epigenetics, gene editing and stem cells.

Yasutaka Narazaki received his B.S. and M.S. in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and then received Ph.D. in 2020 from the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research interests are directed toward resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure systems through innovations in structural inspection and monitoring strategies. Based on his technical background in structural engineering, computer vision, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and robotics, he has performed research in the following three categories: (1) autonomous vision-based inspection of reinforced concrete (RC) railway bridges for rapid post-earthquake response and recovery, (2) development, quantitative performance evaluation, and optimization of computer vision-based dense displacement and strain measurement strategies, and (3) vibration-based structural system identification and damage assessment. His approach to research is characterized by interdisciplinary and international collaborations. He is expanding his research and collaborations to eventually develop a city-scale autonomous inspection/monitoring solution that can leverage all available sensors (e.g. cameras and accelerometers), sensing platforms (e.g. robots), and other prior knowledge (e.g. finite element models and building information models) under circumstances that change constantly with time and place.

Dr. Hugo Carlos Samano Sanchez is a lecturer at the ZJE. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Heidelberg University in 2015, and worked as a postdoc from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Hugo Carlos Samano Sanchez's major research interest are protein bioinformatics,genomics,lipidomics,evolution, host-microbe interactions.

Dr. Chengbo Meng obtained her PhD in Biophysics from South China Normal University in 2014. Currently she is a Senior Scientist in NIH/NIEHS/Kelly. She developed a novel spectral resolved fiber photometry system to simultaneous monitoring of multiple type of neurons activity in freely moving animals. Her work employs a unique combination of novel photometry techniques, electrophysiology and genetic tools to study the mechanism of basal ganglia circuit in health animal and to better understand what goes wrong in neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Meng has published 5 articles in the top journals in neuroscience such as Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience. She has been awarded the best paper award by the International Optoelectronic Engineering Society twice. She also serves as a reviewer for journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience and The Neuroscience Chronicles, etc.

Prof. Chao Gao joined the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, and was promoted as a full Professor in 2008. In 2001, he was a faculty member in SJTU, and Associate Professor in 2002. Since Nov. 2003, he worked with Prof. Sir Harry Kroto as a visiting scholar and postdoc research fellow in the University of Sussex, UK, and then moved to Prof. Axel H. E. Müller’s group at Bayreuth University, Germany in July 2005 as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.

Lino Silva Ferreira，Ph.D.，is the director of the Biomaterials and Stem Cell-Based Therapeutics research group, CNC coordinator of the MIT-Portugal Program and the founder of the biotech company Matera. In 2012, he was awarded with a prestigious European Research Council starting grant and in 2016 an ERA Chair position at the University of Coimbra. His research group has interest in the development of tissue models from stem cells and in the use nanomedicine platforms to modulate the activity of endogenous (stem) cells

Dr. Deng graduated in biochemistry of the Free University of Berlin. He is a postdoctoral researcher in Helmholtz Zentrum Heron in Germany , and has long been engaged in the research of adult stem cells and tissue engineering regenerative medicine. In recent five years, he has published 6 academic papers in PNAS and other international authoritative journals as the first author, including 1 PNAs and 1 ACS Applied Materials & interfaces.

Zhengchao Zhang, PhD candidate in the Tsinghua university. The research topics of Mr. Zhang focus on the applications of artificial intelligent technology in transportation system, spatiotemporal data mining, and data-driven emerging transportation services. He has totally published 9 academic papers (7 papers are included in SCI). As the first author, 3 papers (IF>8) are published in the top journal of the transportation field. The number of citations for the above studies has researched 177 times in the Google Scholar. He has applied 3 national invention patents, and received the national scholarship twice.

Dr. Aaron Irving trained at the University of Queensland (Australia), Diamantina Institute (UQ Australia). Monash Institute of Medical Research (Melbourne Australia) and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medial School (Singapore). He recently opened his lab at ZJE with a focus on emerging zoonotic viral infections and the host-pathogen interactions triggered by these viruses.

Dr. Zhiyi Li received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2017. He received M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2014 and the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China) in 2011. From August 2017 to May 2019, he was a senior research associate at Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology. Since June 2019, he has been with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University(Hangzhou, China) as a research professor. His research interests lie in the application of state-of-the-art optimization and control techniques in smart grid design, operation and management with a focus on cyber-physical security. He has already authored/co-authored over 60 refereed journal articles in these areas.