Dr. Lei Zhao received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. From 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Since 2021, he has been an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests primarily lie in the intriguing multiphysics area that coupled fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and interfacial science spanning from the (sub)nanometer scale to macroscopical scale. In particular, his theoretical, computational, and experimental research program focuses on the moving three phase contact line and dynamic multi-phase fluid manipulation for a wide spectrum of applications, such as phase change heat transfer, drag reduction, additive manufacturing, etc.
Dr. Kailun Zheng received a B.S. in Materials Forming and Control Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Processing Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, in 2017. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London from 2017 to 2019. He then joined the School of Mechanical Engineering of Dalian University of Technology as an associate professor and has been a professor since 2020. His research focuses on the urgent need the light weight and high reliability of high-end carrier equipment in the aerospace field, and guided by the main alloy materials of the equipment, we are engaged in research on the basic theory, key processes, and multi-scale modeling of precision hot forming of difficult-to-deform light-alloy thin-walled parts: theory of plasticity and multi-scale modeling of hot deformation of high-performance light alloys; key processes for precision hot forming of complex thin-walled integral structures; integrated shape control methods; and intelligent equipment for high-performance hot forming processes.
