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Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of 40 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 600 publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide in over fifty countries. He is a Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions including the AIAA Reeds Aeronautics Award, SAE Medal of Honor, ASME Honorary Membership and Honorary Fellowship from Royal Aeronautical Society.

Professor Kamran Behdinan earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 1996, and has considerable experience in both academic and industrial settings. Dr. Behdinan was appointed to the academic staff of Ryerson University in 1998, tenured and promoted to the level of associate professor in 2002 and subsequently to the level of Professor in 2007 and served as the director of the aerospace engineering program (2002-03), and the founding Chair of the newly established Department of Aerospace Engineering (2007-03 and 2007-11). He has joined the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, in the rank of Full Professor in September 2011. He is the NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design, sponsored by NSERC, University of Toronto, and thirteen companies including Bomabardier, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Goodrich, Magna, Ford, and DRDC Toronto. He is the founding director of the Institute for Multidisciplinary Design & Innovation (UT-IMDI) an industry centred project-based learning institute in partnership with major aerospace and automotive companies. Professor Behdinan is the past President of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (2010-2012), and served as a member of the technical and scholarship committees of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory. He is the founding director and principal investigator at Advanced Research Laboratory for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Ontario Research Fund.

Jie Deng is currently working as Associate Professor in School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, where he heads the research on vibroacoustics of Acoustic Black Holes (ABHs), wave manipulation, energy harvesting, acoustic metamaterials, and underwater noise control. He is member of Chinese Society of Acoustics, member of Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering, fellow of Vibration Utilization Engineering Committee of Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering. He holds double PhD degrees in mechanical engineering, from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) in 2020 (Excellent Cum Laude) and Chongqing University (China) in 2021, respectively. He also joined the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA-Lyon) as visiting scholar in 2020. To date, Dr. Deng has authored or coauthored 19 journal articles, 7 conference ones, and owns 1 patent. He currently serves as referee for the Communications Physics, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, ASMS Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, and Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics.

Jiajia Jiang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Distinguished Research Fellow, PH.D. Supervisor, Deputy director of key laboratory of mems technology, Ministry of education, Deputy director of the joint research center for health monitoring of major equipment of tianjin university, Tianjin University, School of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronics Engineering. He was selected as the "Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program" by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), selected as the "131" Innovative Talents Training Project of Tianjin City and Tianjin Young science and technology outstanding talents. He won the "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation" of China Instrument and Control Society in 2016. He is currently a committee member of the Vibration Measurement Branch of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), the deputy secretary-general of the Technology Promotion and Transformation Working Committee of the China Society of Measurement and Testing, a committee member of the Youth Working Committee of the China Instrument Society, Associate editor of IEEE Access and Electronics Letters, editorial board member of Applied Acoustics, technical committee member and branch chairman of the 2nd/3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, technical committee member of the International Symposium on Automation, Control and Communication Engineering, and the technical committee member of the 21st International Conference on Communication and Information of International Symposium on Technology (ISCIT 2022) and Senior Member of IEEE. He has published more than 80 papers, which have been cited more than 600 times. He has obtained more than 30 authorized invention patents.