Proceedings of the 11^th World Congress
on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM 2025)

Dr. Yang Jiao
Arizona State University, USA
MMME 2025 Plenary Speaker

Dr. Yang Jiao is currently a Professor and Program Chair of Materials Science and Engineering and an affiliated Professor of Dept. of Physics at Arizona State University. He obtained his B.S. from Peking University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. The main focus of Dr. Jiao’s research is to understand the fundamental physics of “disorder” in a wide range of complex material systems, using analytical and computational techniques devised in statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, statistical field theory, and discrete geometry. Dr. Jiao has published more than 140 research papers in top-tier scientific journals including Nature, Nat. Comm., Science Advances, PNAS, JACS, Angew. Chem., PRL, Adsv. Fun. Mater., Acta Mater., etc, which have been cited about 9000 times with an h-index of 54. Dr. Jiao received many awards, including the Martin Summerfield Fellowship, Ray Grimm Prize in Computational Physics, DARPA Young Faculty Award, ACS New Investigator Award, Fulton Top 5% Faculty Award, and Professor of Impact Award, the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, etc. He is a Fellow of IAAM and an associate editor for Frontiers of Physics and serves on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, Materials Today, and AIMS Materials Sciences.

Topic of Plenary:
Disordered Hyperuniform Materials

Dr. Ali Kosar
Sabanci University, Turkey
HTFF 2025 Plenary Speaker

Ali Koşar is a Distinguished Research Professor at Sabanci University. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is focusing on phase change phenomena on functional surfaces and the design and development of new generation micro heat sinks with functional surfaces and microfluidic devices including cavitation on chip devices. He co-authored over 200 research articles in top journals and 100 conference papers in prestigious international conferences. He has also a co-inventor on more than 10 granted patents and 10 pending patent applications. He received numerous national and international honors, including the µFIP Prominent Researcher Award” in the 2021 micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, METU (Middle East Technical University) Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Foundation Science Award (2021). He is currently leading a research group consisting of members from various disciplines, graduate students and engineers and to bridge different disciplines (Energy, Nanotechnology, Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Mechanical Engineering). He is also a Subject Editor in the Applied Thermal Engineering journal. He is the Co-director of Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano diagnostics (EFSUN), a Distinguished Researcher of Sabanci University Nanotechnology and Application Center (SUNUM) and a Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).

Topic of Plenary:
Manipulation of Phase Change Phenomena with Mixed Wettability and External Fields

Dr. Virgílio Cruz Machado
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
ICMIE 2025 Plenary Speaker

Virgílio Machado holds a Ph.D. in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Cranfield University, UK). He is a full professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (www.unl.pt/). He teaches operations and production management. He has launched several education programs: PhD and MSc in Industrial Engineering, Project Management, Lean & Green Sustainability and Entrepreneurship. His main scientific activities are directed to the design of new manufacturing and supply chain management systems. He was the dean of the NOVA School of Science and Technology (Portugal), and he is the president of the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Engineers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/virg%C3%ADlio-cruz-machado-a7295b7/

Topic of Plenary:
Global Challenges in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Dr. Raman Singh
Monash University, Australia
ICCPE 2025 Plenary Speaker

Professor Raman Singh’s primary research interests are in the relationship of Nano/microstructure and Environment-assisted degradation and fracture of metallic and composite materials, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Mitigation of such Degradations. He has worked extensively on advanced materials (e.g., graphene) for corrosion mitigation, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion-mitigation. He is a senior professor at Monash University, Australia. He is/was a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020, 2023, 2024), US Naval Research Lab, Indian Institute of Science, and University of Connecticut. Prof Singh’s professional distinctions and recognitions include: Guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Editor of a book on Cracking of Welds (CRC Press), Lead Editor of a book on Non-destructive Evaluation of Corrosion (Wiley), Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier and two MDPI journals, leader/chairperson of a few international conferences and numerous plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, over 295 peer-reviewed international journal publications and 15 book chapter, and several competitive research grants. He has supervised 60 PhD students.

Topic of Keynote:
Graphene Coatings: A Disruptive Approach to Mitigate Corrosion of Metals and Alloys

Dr. Dongsheng Wen
Technical University of Munich, Germany
HTFF 2025 Plenary Speaker

Prof. Wen is the Chair professor and Head of the Institute of Thermodynamics, Technical University of Munich. Prior to his current position, he was the Chair Professor at the University of Leeds and Beihang University, and had he worked in various academic positions at the Queen Mary University of London. His research is focused on heat: namely, how heat is produced, transported, stored and utilized across different scales via nanomaterials / nano-surfaces with targeted applications in energy and aerospace engineering. He has taken a multiscale approach, both experimentally and numerically from nanoscale to bulk scale, to investigate fundamentals of flow, heat transfer and reactions across scales, and apply these fundamentals cross-disciplinarily into different sectors. Funded by UK, EU, China, German research councils and many industry partners, including two prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants (Advanced and Consolidator), his research has produced over 20 patents, 400 referred journal publications, with total citation of >25000 and current H-index = 73. He is Member of the Academia of Europaea (MAE), and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Energy Institute (FEI) and the Institute of Nanotechnology (FIoN). He is an Editor-in-Chief of Advance in Aerodynamics, and an Associate Editors of Applied Thermal Engineering.

Topic of Keynote:
Supercritical flow and heat transfer of hydrocarbon fuels

Dr. Denis Cormier
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
ICMIE 2025 Keynote Speaker

Denis Cormier is the Earl W. Brinkman Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of IISE, and he was the 2024 recipient of the International FAME award for career achievement in the field of additive manufacturing (AM). He has nearly 30 years of AM experience and is best known as one of the first researchers to design and fabricate engineered lattice structures. He is also well known for his pioneering contributions to the electron beam melting (EBM) and Molten Metal Jetting (MMJ) AM processes.

Topic of Keynote:
Metal Additive Manufacturing via Molten Metal Droplet Jetting

Dr. Farhad Ein-Mozaffarif
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
ICCPE 2025 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Farhad Ein-Mozaffari received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of British Columbia. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Ein-Mozaffari is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada. His research interests are mixing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), flow visualization (e.g., tomography and ultrasonic velocimetry), multiphase flow, non-Newtonian fluid flow, hydrodynamics of bioreactors, Scale-up of chemical processes, discrete element modeling (DEM), CFD-DEM coupling, and powder blending. He has published more than 380 refereed journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and industry-university technical reports. Dr. Ein-Mozaffari has supervised/co-supervised more than 59 PhD and MASc students, PDF, and research associates. He has been awarded various reputable research grants such as NSERC DG, NSERC RTI, NSERC CRD, NSERC Alliance, New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration, NSERC ENGAGE, CFI, Mitacs, Connect Canada, and OCE. Dr. Ein-Mozaffari has collaborated with numerous companies such as Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Apotex, Sanofi Pasteur, Cosmetica Laboratories Inc., Baffinland Iron Mines, CSRplus, Hayward Gordon, Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., and Imasco Minerals Incorporation. He is the editor and a member of the editorial board of several journals. Dr. Ein-Mozaffari is the recipient of several awards including Dean’s Research Award, Dean’s Service Award, and YSGS Outstanding Contribution to the Graduate Education Award. .

Topic of Keynote:
Design and Characterization of Aerated Reactors Equipped with Coaxial Impellers

Dr. Sasa Kenjeres
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
HTFF 2025 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Saša Kenjereš, Dipl.-Ing. is a Full Professor of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 1999 at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. From 2001 to 2005 he was a Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts (KNAW). From 2005 to 2006 he was a Burgers Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Institute of Physical Science and Technology, Computer and Space Science/Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center. He received ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence, and Combustion) and Leonhard Euler Centre Visitor Fellowships at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2014). He was the Marie-Curie Visiting Professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland (2007-2013).

He is currently (2022-present) also Visiting Professor of the double-degree Energy and Environmental Engineering (E3) MSc program between the Shibura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, and the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. His research interests include: (i) multiscale transport phenomena in biomedical applications (numerical methods, computer simulations, and experiments); (ii) advanced fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, and turbulence (mathematical modeling, simulations, and experiments); (iii) coupling fluid mechanics and electromagnetism (magnetohydrodynamics, MHD); (iv) environmental flows, turbulent dispersion in complex urban areas, atmospheric chemistry and crowd behavior; (v) high-performance supercomputing (HPC);

Topic of Keynote:
Recent Advances in Multi-Modal Experimental and Computational Investigations of Cardiovascular Flows

Dr. Li Li
Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
MMME 2025 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Li is a registered engineer in Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ). He obtained a bachelor degree and a Master’s degree both in mining engineering in China, and a doctorate degree in France. He was a professor at École de technologie supérieure between 2010 and 2012. Since 2012, Dr. Li is a professor of mining engineering at Polytechnique Montreal. He was the Head of Mining Program at Polytechnique Montreal from June 2020 to June 2023. Starting from May 2023, he serves the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) at Polytechnique as Scientific Director (https://irme.ca/en/rime/).

Dr. Li has more than twenty-year experience in geotechnical engineering. His projects of research vary from underground mining with backfills to surface co-disposal of tailings and waste rocks. He is particularly active in research and development on stress and pressure estimation in backfilled stopes and on backfill barricades, sizing barricades made of waste rocks, and assessing the required strength of cemented backfill with exposed faces. Specialized in numerical modeling, he realized that a large portion of people doing numerical modeling does not believe in their own numerical results, a phenomenon particular in geotechnical engineering (https://www.mdpi.com/books/reprint/6156-numerical-modeling-in-civil-and-mining-geotechnical-engineering).

He also noted the fact that many researchers mainly focus on the originality and novelty (as researchers), but much less and even ignored the reliability of experimental works by arguing (as practitioners, not researchers) that a factor of safety is anyway needed to take into account the uncertainties. Promoting the reliability of numerical and experimental works in geotechnical engineering as researcher is another struggling mission of Prof. Li since several years.

Topic of Keynote:
Some Critical Issues in Underground Mining with Backfill

Dr. Adriano Sciacovelli
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
HTFF 2025 Keynote Speaker

Professor Adriano Sciacovelli is international leader in Thermal Energy Engineering, with a focus on Sustainable Thermal Energy Processes, Systems & Storage (STEPS); He is Full Professor in Thermo-mechanical energy storage systems at the DTU – The Technical University of Denmark (DK). He previously held Associate Professorial role at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Torino (ITA). Underpinned by expertise in Mechanical, Chemical, and Energy Engineering, his research aims to advance thermo-mechanical engineering science to develop innovative STEPS solutions, technologies and methods for decarbonizing thermal energy (heat & cold). A distinctive aspect of his work is the ability to conduct combined computational and experimental research across various scales of STEPS (materials, components, systems). Outputs of Professor Sciacovelli activities encompass fundamental understanding and advancement in STEPS solutions, such as Carnot Batteries (CB), Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES), and Phase-Change and Thermo-Chemical Energy Storage (PCM, TCM), through fundamental thermal engineering research and technology development. With over 30 research grants for a combined investment of £25m (~€31m) from the EU, EPSRC, the Royal Society, and industrial partners, his research has involved more than 50 national and international collaborations, the pre-commercialization of three STEPS technologies, and resulted in over 140 publications, 30+ invited talks, and international awards. He holds scientific and advisory roles in 10+ institutions/associations, such ASME, ECOS and IEA.

Topic of Keynote:
From Thermal Phenomena to Scalable Devices: The Thermo-Mechanical Foundations of Long-Duration Energy Storage for Flexible Heat