ICMST 2019 Speakers

Prof. Kok-Meng Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Speech: Model-based Data-driven Optimization for Intelligent Manufacturing

Biography: Kok-Meng Lee (kokmeng.lee@me.gatech.edu), received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He has been with the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1985. As a Professor of mechanical engineering, his research interests include dynamic systems/control, actuators/sensors, mechatronics, machine vision, robotics, and intelligent manufacturing. He is also Distinguished Professor with the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Pao Yu-Kong Chair Professor of the Zhejiang University.

Dr. Lee is a Life Fellow of ASME and a Fellow of IEEE. Currently, he is founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for Springer International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, and serves as co-Chair on the Conference Advisory Committee for the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics since 1997. He was EIC (2008-2013) for IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics (TMech), and served on the Executive Committee of ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division (2013-2107, Chair 2016). Prior to serving as EIC for TMech, he served as its Technical Editor (1995-1999) and guest edited four focused sections. He had also held representative positions within the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society: served as Associate Editor for its Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering (2003-2005), Trans. on Robotics and Automation (1994-1998), and Robotics and Automation Magazine (1994-1996), and as Chair or Co-Chair for numerous international conferences; and founded/chaired Technical Committees on Manufacturing Automation and on Prototyping for Robotics and Automation.

Prof. Li Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Speech: Lead-free Pyroelectric Materials for Smart City

Biography: Dr. Lu was promoted to Full Professor in 2004 and is still heavily involved in the research of functional materials, mainly in two directions; i) materials for Li-ion rechargeable batteries which include traditional bulk batteries and all-solid-state batteries, and supercapacitors, and ii) piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials. He has published over 300 papers in international journals and 3 monographs. He has awarded millions dollars in his research funding in the past 20 years. Recently, he received two prestigious Proof-of-Concept project grants awarded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore for development of fast charging Li-ion batteries.

Dr. Lu is the Editor-in-Chief of Functional Materials Letters (World Scientific Publisher), Associate Editor of Materials Technology (Maney Publisher) particularly in charge of functional materials, and member of Editorial Board of Scientific Report (Nature Publishers) in charge of energy storage materials. Due to his contributions to functional materials, he has been invited to deliver plenary, keynote and invited lectures by numerous conferences and institutions.

Prof. Sujan Debnath, Head of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Malaysia

Speech: Mechanical Performance of Lignocellulosic Biomass-Based Polymer Composites

Biography: Dr. Sujan (CEng MIMechE) Joined Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia in October 2008 after completion of two years tenure in Multimedia University, Malaysia. Since 2014, he has been appointed as the Head of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin Sarawak. Dr. Sujan obtained his PhD Degree from the University of Science Malaysia in 2006 majoring applied mechanics with specific research focuses on interfacial thermal mismatch stress analysis in layered structure.
Over the years, he has been working in the area of thermo-mechanical stress analysis, green composite materials, and polymer composite materials.He has more than 65 publications in reputable international journals and conference proceedings.
At present, Dr. Sujan is supervising four PhD and three MPhil students. Dr. Sujan is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK.

Prof. Dr. Eric Dimla, RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam

Speech Title: Planned Obsolescence: Aesthetic over Functional - The Emergence, Effects and Ethics

Biography: Prof Dr Eric Dimla received the MEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 from University College London (University of London) and did a PhD immediately after that on "Tool condition monitoring using neural networks in metal turning operations"?awarded in June 1998.
Assoc. Prof Dimla is Head of School of Science and Technology, RMIT University Vietnam.Prior to joining RMIT Vietnam, he was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Preceding joining UTB, he was Academic Leader (Engineering) at Southampton Solent University UK and a Senior Lecturer in CAD and Engineering at Portsmouth University, UK. Between 1998 to early 2000, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Scotland, preceding his appointment as a lecturer in De Montfort University in Leicester UK. His research interest is within the area of metal cutting tool-wear and condition monitoring/fault diagnosis, intelligent sensor fusion and signal processing for industrial applications. He has published well over 50 papers in International Journals and conferences mainly in high speed machining of metals and the application of AI techniques in metal cutting tool wear monitoring.

A/Prof Dimla is a chartered mechanical engineer (CEng), FIMechE and FIET as well as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) of the UK.

Assoc. Prof. Vincent Lee Chieng Chen, Curtin University, Malaysia

Speech Title: Palm Oil as Alternate Cutting Fluid for Machining Processes

Biography: Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University Malaysia. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with the Engineering Council (UK), Chartered Scientist (CSci) with the Science Council (UK), and a Project Management Professional (PMP). He received his Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, and Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Nottingham in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He joined Curtin University Malaysia in 2013. Prior joining Curtin University Sarawak Malaysia, he served as a Research Engineer at Daikin Malaysia. Dr. Lee research focuses on the use of numerical and experimental methods of non-linear dynamics to solve engineering problems.Dr. Lee has received more than RM 200 thousands research grants from government to develop his research.

Assoc. Prof. Petr Valasek, Czech University of Life Science Prague, Czech Republic

Speech: Natural Fillers in Composite Systems

Biography: Petr Valasek is associate professor in the field Technology and mechanization of agriculture on Faculty of Engineering 鈥?Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS), Czech Republic. Currently he works at the Department of Material Science and Manufacturing Technology and he is Vice-Rector for Quality of Academic Activities on CULS. He defended his dissertation thesis "Polymer particle composite systems" in the doctoral study program Special technology in the field of study quality and reliability of machines and equipment. He attended of more than hundred lectures at European universities in Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Spain, Portugal etc. He has passed several Keynote lectures at international non-European universities as well. As part of research projects, he actively participates in various international conferences, and cooperates with foreign universities (e.g. China, Malaysia, and Indonesia). Assoc. Prof. Ing. Petr Valasek, Ph.D. is the author or co-author of 94 entries in the database Scopus, h-index 15 and 44 entries in the database Web of Science. Professional interests: Composite systems, Biocomposites, Biomass usage in materials engineering, Composites with Natural Fibres, Manufacturing Technology.