Dr. Yinquan Yu, Distinguished Professor, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of vehicle and equipment, Ministry of education, East China Jiaotong University (ECJTU), Director of intelligent transportation and power control center, Director of precision machining and intelligent equipment manufacturing Institute. Prof. Yu was awarded as a foreign high-end expert talent by the Ministry of Technology of China in 2020 and the long-term project of innovative leading talents of the "double thousand plan" of Jiangxi Province in 2019. Before he joined ECJTU in 2019, he had worked as a Scientist in the Singapore Science and Technology Research Council (Astar) for ten years. He is the Fellow of SAS, Senior member of IEEE, Senior member of Singapore Engineering Society, Executive director of IEEE PES carbon peak, carbon neutral, Director of IEEE PES China low voltage DC Committee. Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Third International Symposium on power electronics and control engineering (ISPECE2020). Chairman of the local committee of the second IEEE International Conference on big data artificial intelligence and Internet of things engineering, and the Conference Chair of ISPECE 2021 and STEP 2021. International Outstanding contribution award of the 2021 scientific and Technological Innovation exchange conference, etc. Prof. Yu is the guest editor of wireless sensors and artificial intelligence in networks intelligent manufacturing on the special issue of International Journal of Distributed Sensor. Dr. Yu is one of major project evaluation expert of the National Natural Science Foundation council (NSFC) and evaluation expert of key projects in Jiangxi Province too.
Jie Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Central South University and a postdoctoral researcher at Chalmers University of Technology. She is recognized as a Huxiang Youth Talent of Hunan Province, an Shenghua Scholar of Central South University, and one of the Top 2% Global Scientists at Stanford University in 2023. She currently serves as a member of the Wind Energy Aerodynamics Committee of the Chinese Society of Aerodynamics, a youth academic committee member of the Icing and Deicing Branch of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a subject editor of the international journal Transportation Safety and Environment, a young editorial board member of Journal of Central South University (both Chinese and English editions) and Journal of Railway Science and Engineering. She is also the Chair of the Rail Transit Technical Committee of the World Transportation Convention, Co-Chair of the ICEERT 2022 Technical Committee, and Chair of the Vehicle Aerodynamics Subsession of CICTP 2022, among other roles.
In the past five years, she has led one project under the National Key R&D Program, one General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation, and one sub-project under the National Key R&D Program, totaling more than 20 national, provincial, ministerial, and university-industry collaborative projects. She has received nine scientific and technological awards from the China Railway Society, China Transportation Association, and other bodies, including two special awards and one first-class award. As the first or corresponding author, she has published over 70 SCI and EI indexed papers, with an H-index of 30. She has contributed to five major railway scientific innovation achievements included in official databases. She is the primary inventor of 12 authorized Chinese invention patents and 4 international (Japanese) invention patents.
His research focuses on train aerodynamics and operational safety, mainly covering: train drag reduction and noise abatement, train wind-resistance design, train-tunnel coupled aerodynamic effects, train anti-icing and deicing design, fluid-structure interaction and flow-induced vibration, as well as wake flow and active/passive flow control of transportation vehicles.
Prof. Tao Liu
Southwest Jiaotong University
Tao Liu is a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Beijing Jiaotong University and received his doctorate from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has conducted research at the TUMCREATE joint research center of Technical University of Munich and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Tao Liu currently serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the 10th Transportation Systems Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering, a member of the Technical Committee for Integrated Transportation Supply and Demand Analysis of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, the subject editor for public transportation of the journal Journal of Transportation Engineering and Information, an editorial board member in the sustainable transportation field of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy, associate editor of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and editorial board member for journals including Transportation Systems Engineering and Information and Journal of Advanced Transportation. He was selected for the “Hong Kong Scholars Program,” the “Chuying Scholar” program at Southwest Jiaotong University, and recognized as a high-level overseas returnee talent of Sichuan Province.
His main research areas include public transportation and urban rail transit, multimodal transportation collaborative organization, and the integration of artificial intelligence with transportation development. Tao Liu has led several national and provincial-level research projects, including General and Young Scientist Fund projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the “China-Europe Talent” program for international cooperation, and the Ministry of Education’s “Chunhui Plan” collaborative research project. He has authored one academic monograph published by Springer Nature and published over 80 papers, some of which have been included in ESI highly cited papers and the “F5000—China’s Top 5000 Excellent Scientific and Technological Papers.” He holds 10 authorized invention patents and 5 software copyrights. His scientific and technological innovation achievements have been awarded the First Prize of the China Highway and Transportation Society Science and Technology Award and the China Intelligent Transportation Society Science and Technology Award.
