Prof. Valentina Salomoni

Università degliStudi diPadova, Italy

Valentina Salomoni is a distinguished Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy, with a specialization in the field of Construction Science (ICAR/08 - CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE). Her academic and research career is deeply rooted in the Faculty of Engineering, where she has made significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in architectural and construction disciplines.As a leading figure in her field, Professor Salomoni is committed to fostering academic excellence and pushing the boundaries of research in construction science. Her research interests are diverse and span across various aspects of construction science, including but not limited to, materials science, structural engineering, and building physics. She is particularly interested in the development of sustainable construction practices that minimize environmental impact while maximizing the efficiency and longevity of buildings. Throughout her career, Professor Salomoni has been actively involved in numerous international collaborations and research projects.

Researcher. Xindang He

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Researcher .Xindang He,, holds a Doctorate in Engineering and is a Researcher/Doctoral Supervisor. His main research areas include non-destructive testing and structural failure analysis, reliability design and verification of mechanical transmission systems, and the development of testing equipment for advanced material properties.

He has led 6 national projects, including a major national basic research project (with funding in the tens of millions of RMB), a General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, special pre-research projects for helicopter equipment, sub-projects of national major special projects, and classified special sub-projects. Additionally, he has presided over 4 provincial and ministerial-level projects, such as the Shaanxi Key R&D Program, the Postdoctoral Fund, the Aviation Science Fund, and the Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Fund. He has published one monograph, served as chief editor for two textbooks, participated in the compilation of two national planning textbooks, authored over 40 academic papers, applied for more than 20 invention patents, and holds over 10 software copyrights.

He has received numerous honors, including the National Zhou Peiyuan Mechanics Competition Outstanding Instructor Award, Advanced Worker of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Rookie Award, and Graduate Course Ideological and Political Teaching Master. He serves as an expert in the National Graduate Education Evaluation and Monitoring Expert Database, a youth editorial board member of the journals Science and Technology of Mechanical Design and Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics, and as an invited reviewer for several journals, including Engineering Mechanics, Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica, and Acta Armamentarii.

Prof. Zihao Yang

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Professor.ZihaoYang, Doctoral Supervisor, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Complexity Science for Aerospace, and Executive Member of the Uncertainty Quantification Committee of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has been selected for the “AoXiang Star” Talent Program at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He has led a number of projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund and General Program), **** New Scenario and New Technology Tackling Project (with funding in the tens of millions of RMB), Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program, sub-projects of the National Defense Basic Research Nuclear Science Challenge Program, and projects funded by the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Young Scientists Fund and General Program), Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Aviation Science Foundation, among others.

He has received the Second Prize of the Shaanxi Provincial Award for Natural Science and the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress from the Shaanxi Vibration Engineering Society.

Prof. Bing Liu

School of Applied Science, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Liu Bin is a faculty member at the School of Applied Science, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, and also serves as a member of the Operations Research Society of China. His main research areas are probability and statistics, multivariate statistical analysis, and linear algebra. He has led and participated in several National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund projects.

Assoc. Prof. Xufeng Yang

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Prof. XufengYang , received his Bachelor's degree in 2011 and Doctoral degree in 2016, both from Northwestern Polytechnical University. In June 2016, he joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University. His main research interests are reliability analysis of mechanical structures and methods for reliability-based optimal design. From December 2018 to December 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore.

In recent years, as first author or corresponding author, he has published 35 academic papers in renowned journals in the field such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and Reliability Engineering & System Safety, including 29 SCI papers and 3 EI papers. He has presided over a General Program and a Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a key R&D project funded by Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and four enterprise-funded horizontal projects; he has also participated in several other enterprise-funded projects.

He has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Shaanxi Province and serves as a reviewer for journals including Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Journal of Mechanical Design.

Assoc. Prof. Wei Yi

Jining Medical University

Wei Yi, is an Associate Professor. He graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2017 with a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics. His main research interests include symplectic algorithms for Hamiltonian dynamical systems and dynamics modeling and analysis of space solar power stations. In recent years, he has published more than 20 academic papers in important domestic and international journals such as Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition), Acta Astronautica, and Journal of Astronautics, including over 10 papers indexed by SCI. One of his papers is a highly cited article, and another was recognized as a Top Academic Paper in China’s Fine Science and Technology Journals in 2019 by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. He has successfully obtained two invention patents and one utility model patent. He has presided over or participated in six national, provincial, and departmental research projects, and one National Key Laboratory Open Fund project.

He mainly teaches courses such as Advanced Mathematics, Advanced Mathematics for Medical Students, Linear Algebra, and Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. In the spring semester of 2020, he was named a “Smart Teaching Star” at the university level. He has also won the second prize in the University’s Young and Middle-aged Faculty Teaching Competition, and both third and second prizes in the University’s “Curriculum Ideology and Politics” Teaching Design Competition.

Assoc. Prof. Xiaofeng Yang

Northwest A&F University

Associate Professor XiaofengYang, at the College of Science of Northwest A&F University, mainly engages in research on exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations and polysymplectic structures. As the first author, he has published three educational reform papers and has presided over one university-level educational reform project and one college team project. He has also participated in four university-level educational reform projects and five college team projects.

Lecturer. Jieqiong Zhang

Northwestern Polytechnical Universit

Lecturer.JieqiongZhang isgraduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University with a Doctorate in Science and joined the School of Mathematics at Northwest University. Her main research interests include:  

1. Multiscale coupled modeling and computation  

2. Molecular dynamics and peridynamics theories for material damage and fracture  

3. Data-driven machine learning methods (text truncated; please provide the rest if you want the full translation).

Lecturer. Chunfang Zhang

Xidian University

Chunfang Zhang is a lecturer and master's supervisor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern Polytechnical University and was a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her main research interests include multivariate statistical dependence modeling and its applications, as well as reliability theory of multi-state systems. She has presided over one National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) youth project, one Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Basic Research Program project, one key laboratory open project of Yunnan Province on Modern Analytical Mathematics and Its Applications, and three central universities' fundamental research business fund projects. She has also participated in another NSFC project. Dr. Zhang has published more than ten academic papers in domestic and international journals, with representative works appearing in internationally renowned journals such as Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.