Dr. Jianwen Jiang

From the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Jianwen Jiang’s research expertise is computational materials modeling and simulation, currently focused on nanoporous and membrane materials for energy, environmental, and pharmaceutical applications (e.g. carbon capture, water desalination and drug delivery). He has published over 180 technical manuscripts, as well as several invited reviews and book chapters. He is on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Frontier in Materials, Advances in Materials Research, and Colloid and Interface Science Communications, among others. In 2010, he received the Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award from the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

Topic of Keynote: Molecular Simulation, Screening and Design of Nanoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks Toward Potential Applications

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Dr. Jie Yang

Dr. Yang is currently a full professor with the Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia. His main research interests include numerical simulation of advanced composite structures and nanocomposites, structural stability and dynamics, smart structures and control, and nano-mechanics. He is an author of 153 journal papers and more than 60 international conference papers, and 9 of them are ESI highly cited papers. According to ISI database, his publications have so far attracted over 4400 non-self citations with a personal H-index 43.

Prof Yang is the Associate Editor of Engineering Structures (JCR Q1) and the editorial board member of another 6 international journals. He is also the member of Structural Stability Committee, ASCE and serve as the reviewer for over 90 international journals and the assessor for government competitive research grants in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Topic of Keynote: Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Functionally Graded Graphene Nanoplatelets Reinforced Composite (FG-GPLRC) Structures

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