Bao Yang graduated from South China University of Technology
in Engineering Mechanics with a bachelor’s degree in 2007 and received a
doctorate in Solid Mechanics from South China University of Technology in 2012.
From 2013 to 2021, he worked as a postdoc fellow/research associate/research
fellow at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing and Research Institute for
Intelligent Wearable Systems, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the
Department of Mechanics of South China University of Technology in June 2021
and served as an associate professor until now. He has been consistently
engaged in basic research on flexible sensors, smart wearable devices,
biomechanics, dynamics behaviors of functional materials, and their
applications in the fields of sports and healthcare. He has hosted or
participated in more than 10 projects, including the National Natural Science
Foundation, National Key Research and Development Programs, Hong Kong
Innovation Technology Fund, and Hong Kong General Research Fund. He has also
published over 50 journal papers.
Zhenyu Jiang is a professor in the Department of Engineering
Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China
University of Technology. His research interests mainly focus on the fields of
experimental solid mechanics and composite material mechanics, including
photomechanical methods, mechanical models of advanced materials, development
of high-performance engineering materials, application of artificial
intelligence in mechanical problems, sports biomechanics, etc. He received a
bachelor’s degree in theoretical and applied mechanics and a doctorate in solid
mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1999 and
2005, respectively. He served as a Research Associate at the Institute of
Composite Materials at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany
(2005–2007); as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2007–2009); and as an
Associate Professor at the South China University of Technology (2011–2017) and
was promoted to full professor in 2017. He has presided over three National Natural
Science Foundation projects, participated in two National Natural Science
Foundation key projects, and has been a review expert of the National Natural
Science Foundation for a long time. He has chaired and participated in a number
of provincial, ministerial, and enterprise science and technology projects.
Yiping Liu is a professor at the School of Civil Engineering
and Transportation at the South China University of Technology. He received a
bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics in 1995, a master’s degree in solid
mechanics in 1998, and a doctorate in solid mechanics in 2006 from the South
China University of Technology, respectively. He served as a teaching assistant
(1998–2001), lecturer (2001–2006), and associate professor (2006–2013) in the
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation of South China University of
Technology, becoming a full professor in 2013. He served as a visiting scholar
at Texas A&M University in the United States from 2009 to 2010. His
scientific research interests include soft matter mechanics, material and
structural damage mechanics, bridge construction monitoring, and long-term
health monitoring. He is a member of the Experimental Mechanics Committee of
the Chinese Mechanics Society, a member of the Mechanics Terminology Approval
Committee of the Chinese Mechanics Society, and the vice chairman of the 10th
Council of the Guangdong Mechanics Society.
Licheng Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of
Engineering Mechanics at the South China University of Technology. He received
a bachelor’s degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of
Science and Technology of China in 2010, and a doctorate in solid mechanics
from Peking University in 2015. He served as an assistant researcher at the
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation (2015–2017), and an associate
researcher at the Department of Engineering Mechanics of South China University
of Technology (2017–2018). His scientific research interests include the
intelligent integrated design of mechanical/electromagnetic properties of
high-temperature radomes and FSS structures and damage identification methods
for engineering structures based on deep learning. He is the deputy
secretary-general of the 10th Council of the Guangdong Mechanics Society, a
member of the Experimental Big Data Analysis Professional Group of the Chinese
Mechanics Society, and a member of the Intelligent Materials and Structures
Professional Group of the Chinese Mechanics Society.
Dr. Zejia Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation at the South China University of Technology. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology. He served as a visiting scholar at the University of Liege in 2002 and 2003 to conduct collaborative research on international cooperation and development funding projects of Belgian government universities. His research interests mainly include bridge construction monitoring, numerical analysis of engineering problems, and multiphase and multifield coupling analysis of porous media.
Liqun Tang is a professor at South China University of
Technology. He received a bachelor’s degree in explosive mechanics, a master’s
degree in explosive mechanics, and a doctorate in solid mechanics from the
University of Science and Technology of China. He served as a lecturer (1994–1997),
associate professor (1997–2003), and head of the Department of Engineering
Mechanics (2006–2013) at South China University of Technology; and as an
associate researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1997–1999). He served
as a senior visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and as a
visiting scholar at the Texas A&M University and Los Alamos Laboratory. His
scientific research interests include mechanical behavior and mechanisms of
living soft matter and structures, structural damage and long-term health
monitoring, impact dynamics, etc. He is a member of the Executive Director of
the Chinese Mechanics Society and Special Committee of the Solid Mechanics
Professional Society of the Chinese Mechanics Society, and a Fellow of IAAM
(The International Association of Applied Mechanics).
