Editorial Board

Editorial Board

  • Editors-in-Chief

    • Prof.  Zhengbai Liu

      • 1. School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
      • 2. Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

      Research Interests: internal combustion engine combustion theory; engine component design; vehicle material and lightweight.

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    • Prof.  Ming Zheng

      Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Professor and Director of Clean Combustion Engine Laboratory, Department of Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada.

      Research Interests: high efficiency engines; combustion; emission control & diagnostics; active exhaust after treatment; thermal/fluid systems; IC engine modeling.

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  • Senior Consulting Board

    • Prof.  Jiansheng Dai

      • 1. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), King’s College London, University of London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK.
      • 2. College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.

      Research Interests: reconfigurable mechanisms and reconfigurable robots; reconfigurable robot devices and grippers; reconfigurable packaging and assembly; reconfigurable manufacture; reconfigurable lower-limb rehabilitation; reconfigurable mechanisms and robots; rehabilitation and medical robotics; robotised packaging and industrial robotics; kinematics and screw algebra; mechanism theory and development; manipulation theory and multifingered hands.

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    • Prof.  Jianguo Lin

      • 1. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
      • 2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.

      Research Interests: materials processing and modelling; metal forming; materials characterisation; viscoplasticity; AI & machine learning.

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  • Associate Editors

    • Prof.  Liliang Wang

      Metal Forming and Modelling Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

      Research Interests: Metal forming, Data science in Metal Forming, Tribology in metal forming

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    • Prof.  Liguang Li

      School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Director, Institute of Fuel Spray and Combustion, 4800 Cao'An Road, Jiading District, Shanghai 201804, China.

      Research Interests: Combustion, Emission and Clean Alternative Fuels for Internal Combustion Engines and Clean Power System for Vehicles (Hybrid Power)

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    • Prof.  Hongming Xu

      Vehicle and Engine Technology Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

      Research Interests: flow/turbulence; diesel/gasoline spray; mixture preparation; ignition; premixed/diffusion combustion; new combustion mode; emission formation/control; biodiesels; engine modelling; operation control

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    • Prof.  Seeram Ramakrishna

      Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

      Research Interests: cross-fields; circular economy; nanotechnology.

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    • Prof. Dr.  Jakob Andert

      Teaching and Research Area Mechatronics in Mobile Propulsion, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany.

      Research Interests: component research, systemic developments as well as methodological research supporting the development processes of novel drive systems.

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    • Prof.  Robert Dibble

      Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

      Research Interests: internal combustion engine; laser diagnostics in turbulent reactive flows, generation of “green” fuels from biomass, including ethanol and bioDiesel mitigation of greenhouse gases, highest efficiency and lowest pollution combustion of fuels derived from biomass, combustion issues related to global warming, conversion of waste heat to power via Organic Rankine Cycle ( ORC ), spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, turbulent combustion, optics and electronics. Combustion in turbine engines, combustion of oxygenates and biodeisel fuel in diesel engines. Combustion in new engine concept of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI).

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  • Editorial Board Members

    • Prof.  Zhengtao Ding

      Control, Communication and Signal Processing Division, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Sackville Street Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

      Research Interests: nonlinear and adaptive control theory and their applications, more recently network-based control, distributed optimization and distributed learning, with applications to power systems and robotics

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    • Prof.  Yuchun Xu

      College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University, Aston Trianglle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK.

      Research Interests: Digital Product Development & Manufacturing, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, Remanufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering, Life Cycle Cost Modelling and Optimisation

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    • Dr.  Quan Zhou

      Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

      Research Interests: fuzzy inferences, evolutionary computation, deep and reinforcement learning, and their applications in automotive engineering

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    • Prof.  Xu Wang

      School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

      Research Interests: future engineering design; new materials; renewable energy; dynamics; noise and vibration control; vibration and acoustic energy harvesting.

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    • Prof.  Young Chull Ahn

      Department of Architectural Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea.

      Research Interests: ventilation; particulate matter control; building energy.

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    • Dr.  Qichao Duan

      PSA Peugeot Citroen, Montbéliard, France.

      Research Interests: internal combustion engine; vehicle manufacturing technology; electrical vehicles.

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    • Prof.  Yaochu Jin

      • 1. Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
      • 2. Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
      • 3. Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.

      Research Interests: trustworthy artificial intelligence; artificial general intelligence.

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    • Dr.  Hongxing Lu

      Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

      Research Interests: new lightweight materials and manufacturing technology for vehicle and communication equipment.

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    • Prof.  James Njuguna

      School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.

      Research Interests: composite materials; offshore materials; automotive materials; polymer nanocomposites; structural materials; safety materials and structures; impact and ballistic resistance performance; new products development.

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    • Dr.  Valerio Paolini

      Istituto sull'inquinamento atmosferico (IIA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, Italy.

      Research Interests: biogas production from urban and agricultural waste and byproducts; purification of biomethane and its use as a vehicle fuel; emissions into the atmosphere of local air pollutants and global contaminants; life cycle assessment and life cycle cost of biofuels.

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    • Dr.  Rahat Javaid

      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan.

      Research Interests: development of efficient and stable nanomaterials for use as catalysts in clean; sustainable energy technologies; environmental and biomedical catalytic application.

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    • Dr.  Daniel Wei Meng SNG

      College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

      Research Interests: application of displacement ventilation in the tropics; energy efficiency and conservation in building HVAC systems; human thermal comfort and indoor air quality; green buildings in the tropics; building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV)/renewable energy.

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    • Dr.  Fuguo Xu

      Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan.

      Research Interests: HEV; powertrain control; connected and automated control.

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    • Dr.  Xiaofeng Yang

      Propulsion System Research Lab, GM Global Research and Development, General Motors Company, Warren, MI 48090, USA.

      Research Interests: EV motor; battery pack; SI engines; IC engine design & optimization.

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    • Prof.  Zainul Akmar bin Zakaria

      Department of Bioprocess Engineering, University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

      Research Interests: environmental technology; resource recovery; waste treatment.

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    • Prof.  Qingsong Zuo

      College of Mechanical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China.

      Research Interests: after-treatment system of automotive systems; battery thermal management system.

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    • Dr.  Tigran Parikyan

      Advanced Simulation Technologies, AVL List GmbH, Graz, Austria.

      Research Interests: simulation and optimization of dynamics, vibrations and NVH in engines and powertrains; software development; analysis and design of mechanisms and robots.

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    • Dr.  Chamil Abeykoon

      Department of Materials, the Aerospace Research Institute, the Northwest Composites Centre, Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, and the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

      Research Interests: process monitoring, modeling, and control; soft sensors and soft sensing; process instrumentation; renewable energy technologies; 3D printing, phase change materials; heat transfer.

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    • Dr.  Xianyan Zhou

      Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 7491, Norway.

      Research Interests: multi-scale and multi-physics simulation and modelling; solid mechanics; advanced manufacturing technologies.

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    • Prof.  Weidi Huang

      • 1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan
      • 2. College of Power and Energy Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

      Research Interests: internal combustion engine; fuel spray; simulaton

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    • Dr.  Weiqun Ren

      Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

      Research Interests: EV motor

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    • Dr.  Bin Wang

      Technical Center, SAIC Motor, Shanghai, China

      Research Interests: motor

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    • Prof.  Chunde Yao

      State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

      Research Interests: alternative fuel for engine and super knock in gasoline engine

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    • Prof.  Zhiping Zhang

      Henan International Joint Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Nanomaterials, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China

      Research Interests: agricultural bio-environment and energy engineering, biomass-based materials development

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