Proceedings of the 9^th World Congress
on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM 2023)

Dr. Perumal Nithiarasu
Swansea University, UK
HTFF 2023 Plenary Speaker

Professor P. Nithiarasu currently holds the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Impact for Science and Engineering position at Swansea. Previously he held various roles, including the Deputy Head of Engineering, Dean for Academic Leadership and Head of the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering. His research areas include computational engineering, especially healthcare engineering. Professor Nithiarasu is particularly interested in digital twins and translational biomedical engineering. Professor Nithiarasu extensively published in computational engineering. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Topic of Plenary:
Fundamental Challenges of Building Digital Twins

Dr. Wilson Chiu
University of Connecticut, USA
HTFF 2023 Keynote Speaker

Wilson K. S. Chiu earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. His research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and industry. He published 8 book chapters/special volumes, 126 journal articles and 203 conference articles/abstracts. Among his honors, he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE), and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, awarded the Otto Mønsted Guest Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark, and the United Technologies Corporation Professorship in Engineering Innovation at the University of Connecticut. He received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator (YIP) Award, Army Research Office Young Investigator (YIP) Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, and served as an associate editor for the International Journal of Thermal Sciences and ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, and on the editorial board of Scientific Reports and several other journals. He has given over 120 plenary, keynote and invited lectures in the United States and abroad.

Topic of Keynote:
Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Architected Open Cell Foams

Dr. Hsi-Yung (Steve) Feng
The University of British Columbia, Canada
ICMIE 2023 Keynote Speaker

Hsi-Yung (Steve) Feng is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is known internationally for his research contributions in computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and 3D laser scanning. To date, his research group has developed many advanced geometric computing algorithms to address technical challenges in CAD modeling, multi-axis machining, and scanned point cloud processing. Notable achievements include a highly flexible geometric modeling scheme for intuitive CAD modeling, a voxel-based workpiece model update method for fast machining simulation, a tensor field based tool path generation method for efficient sculptured surface machining, and scanned data processing algorithms for automatic point cloud simplification and outlier removal. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Topic of Keynote:
Voxel-based Machining Simulation for Fast Process Validation

Dr. Wagdi G. Habashi
McGill University, Canada
HTFF 2023 Keynote Speaker

Wagdi Habashi is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of McGill University and directs its Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He has held 3 successive 5-year NSERC Industrial Research Chairs with Bombardier (aircraft), Bell (helicopters), CAE (flight simulators), and Lockheed Martin (hypersonic civil transport).

Professor Habashi holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Cornell and has a lifetime of international collaboration with Aerospace OEMs, with more than 400 publications at least one-third of them jointly with industrial partners.

Dr. Habashi established Newmerical Technologies International Inc. (NTI); the developer of the FENSAP-ICE 3D In-Flight Icing Simulation System currently used in close to 30 countries. NTI’s assets were acquired by ANSYS in 2015 to boost its icing simulation capabilities. Following this, Professor Habashi created CERTIF-ICE Inc., a one-stop shop for all aspects of in-flight icing certification. CERTIF-ICE successfully conducted in Canada the natural icing campaigns of COMAC’s ARJ21 (Regional Jet) and AVIC’s Y-12F (Turboprop).

Habashi is a Knight of the Order of Québec, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Pratt & Whitney Canada.

Topic of Keynote:
Machine Learning and Automatic Mesh Optimization: Watershed Technologies for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Optimal Simulations

Dr. Luc Mongeau
McGill University, Canada
HTFF 2023 Keynote Speaker

Luc Mongeau is a James McGill Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. His current research interests are in Bioengineering of soft tissues for laryngology applications. He has worked in the areas of acoustics, vibrations, fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He is presently involved in studies of synthetic jet actuators for surfaces cleaning, needle-free injection technologies and organoids fabrication using bioprinting. He has supervised the work of over 40 Ph.D. and 50 M.S. students over the past 30 years, and has published 130 scientific articles in various journals.

Topic of Keynote:
Role of Vertical Structures on Heat Exchange within Acoustic Standing Waves