Biography
Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Guelph in Canada in 1995. After graduated from University of Guelph, he worked at the University of Ottawa, National Research Council Canada in Ottawa, and then the Centre for Nuclear Energy Research at Fredericton. Since 2001, he joined the National Research Council Canada in London Ontario as an Assistant Research Officer and now he is a Senior Research Officer. He has also held the Adjunct Professorship at the Department of Chemistry, Lakehead University and the Department of Chemistry, Western University in Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
Dongfang Yang’s current search interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new material development for energy devices; chemical, thermal and optical sensor development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. In his career, he have edited 2 books, authored 4 book chapters, 2 patents, 50 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals, and 16 papers in conference proceedings. He is currently serving as Member of Editorial Board for 8 scientific journals including “The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistryâ€, “Current Chemical Research†and journal “Sensors & Transducersâ€.
Haydn Chen
Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA
Biography
Prof. Haydn Chen has completed his PhD from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He had been a full Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years before joining the City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor and Head of the Department in 2000. From 2004 to 2012, he was the President of Tunghai University in Taiwan, then he joined University of Macau in 2012 as a Vice Rector. He is currently a Chair Professor in Materials Science and the CEO for the Office of University Advancement at the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Research Interest
Having supervised over 50 MS and PhD students and worked closed with more than 20 research associates and visiting scholars in four universities, Prof. Chen has authored or co-authored over 350 journal articles and delivered more than 250 technical presentations. Dr. Chen’s research has evolved from metals and alloys, in which he pioneered x-ray diffraction studies of kinetic processes of ordering or coarsening in technologically important Ni-based super-alloys, Fe-based shape memory alloys and Al-based light metal alloys, to thin films of electric ceramics such as ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, nitrides, etc. He is currently working on energy materials including energy harvesting and storage.
Biography
Dr. Y.L. Mo, F.ASCE and F.ACI, is Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Houston (UH). He is also Tsinghua Chair Professor, Institute of Future City and Infrastructure, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Mo’s technical interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis, large-scale concrete structure testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures, on which he has more than 400 research publications, including 198 referred journal papers, many conference, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake field mission reports. Dr. Mo has successfully supervised six post-doc, 23 PhD and over 40 Masters Theses as well as 25 visiting scholar studies. Many of his students hold significant positions in industry, academia and government around the world. In the past several years, Dr. Mo has focused on periodic material research, especially application of periodic material to dynamic isolation of energy infrastructures.
Research Interest
Dr. Mo has focused on periodic material research, especially application of periodic material to dynamic isolation of energy infrastructures.
