GMSST2024

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, structural health monitoring, renewable energy, metamaterials, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published 311 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and has eight issued U.S. patents. He received 14 best paper awards from the ASME and Society of Experimental Mechanics. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research.

Haifeng Zhang is a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Texas (Denton, TX). His research interests include advanced sensors, energy harvesters, structural health monitoring and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation. He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Hunan University, China in 1997, his M.S. degree in Solid Mechanics from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, in 2001, and his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2007. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Material Science and Engineering in the Ohio State University before joining in University of North Texas in 2008. Dr. Zhang is the committee member of ASME energy harvesting technical committee.

Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) with 1st class honors. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

Prof. R.C. Jagessar, BSc, PhD, PDF, CChem, FRSC Prof. Raymond Jagessar obtained his BSc (distinction) in Chemistry/Biology from the University of Guyana (1992) and his PhD from the UK (1995) and DipEd (distinction) in higher education at the University of Guyana. He held three Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (PDF) in the USA and the University of the West Indies during the period, 1996-1999. He has several international awards, amongst them are Chartered Chemist, CChem and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC, UK, Research Grants, etc. In addition was one of the awardees of the Guyana Innovation Prize, 2021. His research interests are broad, covering the spectrum of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He has published over one hundred (100) research articles, five book chapters, and one book and presented at several international conferences, locally and internationally. He has given keynote presentations at several conferences and is currently Professor in Chemistry at the University of Guyana (South America) and President of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Huangxian Ju now works at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Nanjing University, Nanjing, China as the director of State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from this university in 1986, 1989 and 1992, respectively, and has performed many pioneering studies on nanobiosensing, electrochemical cytosensing, quantum dots-based electrochemiluminescence biosensing, in-situ monitoring of cell surface carbohydrates and in situ quantitation of intracellular functional biomolecules. He is the fellows of the International Society of Electrochemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chinese Chemical Society. His current research interests are in analytical biochemistry, nanobiosensing, bioimaging and molecular diagnosis, focusing on signal amplification and life analytical chemistry. He has published 898 papers (621 papers in journals with IF>5), 6 English books, 7 Chinese books, 20 chapters and authored 45 patents with more than 43600 citations in SCI journals and an h-index of 103 (GS h-index 114 and >50000 citations), and won the first outstanding achievement award of Chinese chemical sensors in 2019, 2022 Advanced Measurement Science Lecture Award of American Chemical Society, 3 first-class S&T prizes from Jiangsu Province Government, 3 first-class prizes in natural science from Education Ministry of China, 3 first-class S&T prizes from Chinese Association for Instrumental Analysis, 4 second-class and 2 third-class S&T prizes from Jiangsu Province Government.

Prof. Dr. Yousef FARHAOUI, is a Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of sciences and Techniques, Morocco. Chair of IDMS Team, Director of STI laboratory. Local Publishing and Research Coordinator, Cambridge International Academics in United  Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Security from Ibn Zohr University of Science. His research interests include learning, e-learning, computer security, big data analytics, and business intelligence. Farhaoui has three books in computer science. He is a coordinator and member of the organizing committee and also a member of the scientific committee of several international congresses, and is a member of various international associations. He has authored 10 Book and many Book Chapters with Reputed Publishers such as Springer and IGI. He is served as a Reviewer for IEEE, IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier Journals. He is also the Guest Editor of many Journals with Wiley, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, and Panelist in Several Conferences. He is Senior Member of IEEE, IET, ACM and EAI Research Group.