Prof. William C. Tang (FInstP, FAIMBE)
University of California, Irvine, USA
Biography:
William C. Tang received his BS (1980), MS
(1982), and PhD (1990) degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences from the
University of California at Berkeley. His
seminal thesis and invention of the
electrostatic comb drive has been
internationally recognized as one of the key
building blocks of Micro-electromechanical
Systems (MEMS) sensors and actuators, and is
the most widely-cited work in the field for
over two decades. Since his graduation, Dr.
Tang contributed to the automotive industry
at Ford Motor Company and space exploration
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Subsequently, he served as the DARPA Program
Manager for various MEMS programs, the
single largest federal funding source for
MEMS at the time. In 2002, he was appointed
a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at
the University of California, Irvine. Later,
he was also jointly appointed with the
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and
the Materials Science and Engineering
Departments. He was the first Associate Dean
for Research in the Henry Samueli School of
Engineering from 2008 to 2013. His research
interests include micro- and nano-scale
biomedical engineering, neural engineering,
neuropathology and clinical applications. He
is a Senior Member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a
Fellow and Chartered Physicist with the
Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering.
Prof. Hideaki Tsukamoto
Hosei University, Japan
Biography: Prof. Hideaki Tsukamoto is currently a full Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Japan. Prof. Tsukamoto received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1988, and his master’s degree in Materials Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1990. He received his PhD in Materials Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2002, and another PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Adelaide, Australia in 2008. He was working as an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan from 1990 to 2003. He moved to Australia in 2005 and was working at The University of Queensland from 2008 to 2011. Since 2016, he has been working as a full professor at Hosei University, Japan. His research targets and interests include metal matrix composites (MMCs), ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), functionally graded materials (FGMs), high temperature materials, and their thermo-mechanical behavior. He has been also engaging in micromechanics of the composites.
Prof. Qingsong Yu
University of Missouri, USA
Biography:
Dr. Qingsong Yu is a Full Professor in the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at University of Missouri in the
United States. Dr. Yu’s research has been
focusing on non-thermal gas plasma
technology and its applications in materials
processing, surface modification, thin film
deposition, and recently in plasma medicine
and plasma dentistry.
Dr. Yu received his B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from Tianjin University of
China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from University of Missouri
(1995, 1998). Since then, Dr. Yu has worked
in microelectronics industry at Silicon
Valley in California. In 2002, he joined the
faculty in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at University of Missouri and
now he is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at
University of Missouri. Dr. Yu has published
over 100 refereed research papers in major
international journals and holds a few US
patents.