
Prof. Liang Zhou
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Prof. Liang Zhou, male, second-level professor, and doctoral supervisor. He is currently a member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, as well as the Director of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology. He has received numerous honors, including the Ministry of Education’s “Changjiang Scholars Distinguished Professor,” the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, the National “High-level Overseas Young Talent,” Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, Jiangsu Province “Distinguished Professor,” Jiangsu Province “High-Level Talent,” Jiangsu Province “Top Ten Outstanding Youth,” and the Jiangsu Province “May Fourth Youth Medal.”
He is primarily engaged in teaching and research in the fields of electronic information engineering, communication engineering, and artificial intelligence, with a long-term focus on multimedia communication research. In recent years, he has published multiple high-quality academic papers as the first author in journals such as IEEE JSAC. He has presided over and completed several major national-level scientific research projects, including key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has also collaborated with companies like Huawei and ZTE on multiple industry-university-research cooperative projects. Some of his research outcomes have been successfully applied in China’s intelligent security and smart city sectors, producing notable social and economic benefits.

Prof. Zhan Kang
Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr. Zhan Kang is a Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of Dalian University of Technology. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1992, received his MEng in mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 1995 and his Dr. –Ing. degree from Stuttgart University, Germany in 2005. His current research involves issues such as topology optimization, structural optimization under uncertainties, dynamic design optimization. He is the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, editor board member of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A: Civil Engineering; Part B: Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Kang has published over 140 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and two monographs. He has received 10000 citations and has an H-index of 54 (Google Scholar). Dr. Kang has been granted the Outstanding Youth Fund of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Prof. Peiqing Liu
Beihang University, China
Peiqing Liu, Professor and doctoral supervisor at Beihang University. He is the lead instructor of the National-Level Excellence Course in Aerodynamics and the Director of the National Aviation and Aerospace Experimental Teaching Center. His main research areas include vortex separation flow and flow control, high angle-of-attack aerodynamics of aircraft, vortex interference and control in canard configurations, high-speed laminar flow control technology, modern lightweight and high-efficiency propeller design and optimization, low Reynolds number flow mechanisms and control of aircraft, aerodynamic performance during takeoff and landing of large aircraft, and research on water landing performance.
He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 1995. Since 1997, he has been working at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Beihang University. From 2000 to the present, he has served as Professor in charge of the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory under the Ministry of Education and as a doctoral supervisor. In 2003, he was appointed Associate Dean of the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering. He is the leader of Beijing’s Excellence Course in Aerodynamics and a council member of the Chinese Society of Aerodynamics.
In 2000, he received the National Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award. In 2003, he was honored as one of the National Top 100 Outstanding Doctoral and Master’s Advanced Contributors. In 2005, he won the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award.
He has long been engaged in experimental and numerical simulation studies in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. In recent years, supported by key and general projects from the National Natural Science Foundation and national pre-research projects, he has conducted systematic and in-depth research on complex engineering flows using theoretical analysis, experiments, and numerical simulations. His research achievements have been published in over one hundred papers in domestic and international academic journals, and he has authored five books, with many papers indexed by SCI and EI.

Prof. Zilong Zhao
Beihang University, China
Zi-Long Zhao obtained his doctoral degree in 2016 from Tsinghua University (China). Since 2021, he has been a full Professor at Beihang University (China). He is elected as a high-level young talent of China (2020), an ARC DECRA fellow (2019), an innovative and entrepreneurial talent of Jiangsu Province (2024), and a young top talent of Beihang University (2022). He is an expert of the Chinese Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Australian Research Council, and the Jiangsu Association of Science and Technology. He is an editorial advisory board member of Engineering Fracture Mechanics. His research interests include solid mechanics, biomechanics, structural topology optimization, and aircraft design. By 2025, he has published about 60 papers in internationally prestigious SCI journals. He is the general chair or co-chair of multiple international conferences such as ICoACE 2024, AITCE 2025, and ICAMME 2025.