Professor Ji Wang has held the position of Qianjiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang Province at Ningbo University since 2002. From 2013 to 2019, he also served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Ningbo University. He was the founding director of the Piezoelectric Device Laboratory, which is designated as a Key Laboratory by the Municipality of Ningbo. Prior to his academic career, Professor Wang worked as a senior engineer at SaRonix in Menlo Park, CA from 2001 to 2002; as a senior engineer and manager at NetFront Communications in Sunnyvale, CA from 1999 to 2001; and as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Epson Palo Alto Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA from 1995 to 1999. Additionally, he has held visiting positions at Chiba University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Argonne National Laboratory. He earned his PhD and Master's degrees from Princeton University in 1996 and 1993 respectively, following his bachelor's degree from Gansu University of Technology in 1983. Professor Wang's research focuses on acoustic waves and high-frequency vibrations within elastic and piezoelectric solids for resonator design and analysis. His work includes nonlinear vibration analysis resulting in several patents registered both in the United States and China. He has authored approximately 250 journal papers and frequently delivers invited talks, keynote addresses, and plenary presentations at major international conferences. He serves on various boards as a member or advisor for leading companies within the acoustic wave device industry. Furthermore, Professor Wang is an active participant on numerous international committees including those associated with IEEE UFFC Technical Program Committees for Frequency Control Symposium& Ultrasonics Symposium; IEEE MTT-S; IEC TC-49; among others. Notably, he is also the founding chair of both CSTAM’s Committee on Mechanics of Electronic & Magnetic Devices as well as SPAWDA. Currently Professor Wang is the Executive Editor of MechanoEngineering. From 2015 to 2020, Professor Wang was appointed editor-in-chief for Structural Longevity while contributing to editorial boards across multiple prestigious international journals.

Lei Hou received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2009, 2011 and 2015, respectively. He won the first "Excellent Doctoral Thesis in Mechanics in China" award in 2017, and was selected into the "Recruitment Plan for Young Top Talents in Harbin Institute of Technology" in 2017 and 2020, and was promoted to associate professor and professor. He engaged in the research on nonlinear dynamics and vibration control, presided over more than 20 scientific research projects such as National Key Research and Development Program,National Natural Science Foundation of China (distinguished young scholars,general, young scholars), published more than 120 journal papers, more than 1800 other citations, authorized and accepted 10 national invention patents, and registered 3 software copyrights, He won second prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. Some of the research results have been applied to the actual project, resulting in economic benefits of more than 120 million yuan.

Scarlet Montilla is a distinguished Structural Engineer and Researcher specializing in advanced steel structures, finite element, reliability, retrofitting, innovative construction systems and structural design (buildings, bridges, and offshore structures) in concrete, steel, and timber. With 16 years of combined industry and academic experience, Scarlet has led 33 independent structural calculation projects and contributed to 4 landmark construction projects, including the Mukumbarí Cable Car System (Venezuela), the highest cable car in the world. She has taught Civil Engineering, Architecture, and Energy Engineering at universities across Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Spain, and China. Her scholarly contributions include 15 journal papers, 3 books, and 2 book chapters. She is co-author of 8 open-source computer software programs for finite element and stochastic analysis of structures.Currently, her research focuses on computational mechanics and Lumped Damage Mechanics (LDM) theory applied to high-performance steel structures under extreme loads (corrosion, wind, earthquake), a contribution that earned her the 2024 First Prize in Science and Technology Progress from the China Steel Structure Association.

Somaye Mohammadi has been an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology since February 2023. She earned her BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. She completed a seven-month postdoctoral fellowship at Sharif University of Technology's Mechanical Engineering Department from June 2022 to January 2023. Her research interests include condition monitoring, vibration and acoustic analysis, industrial gearboxes, and machine learning. She has contributed to approximately five industrial projects focused on intelligent fault diagnosis, remaining useful life prediction, root cause failure analysis, vibration analysis, and modal analysis. Mohammadi has published about 13 journal papers and presented 31 conference papers. She serves on the board of directors for the Iranian Society of Acoustic and Vibration (ISAV) and the Iranian Society of Engineering Education (ISEE). From 2023 to 2025, she was the executive secretary of the Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (CMFD) Conference. Since November 2023, she has been the Director of Public Relations for the Mechanical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology and also acts as the deputy of the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Center in the same department.

Dr. Onder Turan received his BSc., MSc. and Ph.D in 1998, 2000 and 2007 respectively from Anadolu University. He became an Associate Professor of Anadolu University in 2013. He has published more than 60 journal papers or conference papers in the above fields. He has served as a member of technical and scientific committee, panel session chair, reviewer and editor for numerous international conferences and prestigious scientific journals

Sadia Samar Ali is a Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research, specializing in Supply Chain Management for Consumer Analytics. With a strong background in engineering and management, Dr. Ali focuses her research on Circular Sustainable Supply Chain Management and the application of AI/ML optimization techniques in developing countries. She is actively involved in international groups like EURO and IFORS, promoting sustainable practices and smart technologies. Her impressive body of work includes 80 + published papers, with many in top-tier journals, alongside three authored books. As an Associate Editor for GRETS and PLOS One, she contributes significantly to the field while mentoring students and enhancing their research capabilities. Her expertise has also led her to serve as an editorial board member in 30 + international journals, keynote speaker at various international forums on applications of data analytics and optimization in the field of technology integration such as UAVs.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001, and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from the same University. He is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). He has been the Head of DEMec since June 2023. João Tavares is co-editor of more than 80 books, co-author of more than 50 book chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering” published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: International Symposium on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences and International Conference on Biodental Engineering. Additionally, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD theses and supervisor of several post-doc projects and has participated in many scientific projects both as a researcher and as scientific coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, and new product development.

Dr. Jie Deng leads research on the vibroacoustics of Acoustic Black Holes (ABHs), wave manipulation, energy harvesting, and acoustic metamaterials, in the Department of Engineering at Universitat Ramon Llull. He is a member of the Chinese Society of Acoustics, the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering, and a fellow of the Vibration Utilization Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) in 2020 (Excellent Cum Laude) and from Chongqing University (China) in 2021 (Excellent Thesis). In 2020, he also joined the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA-Lyon) as a visiting scholar. He was an Associate Professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) during 2021-2024. To date, Dr. Deng has authored 41 journal articles and 15 conference papers (Google Scholar citation count: 2112, h-index: 26), and he was listed as one of the World's top 2\% scientists in 2023 and 2024. He currently serves as a Guest Editor for Materials and Frontiers in Physics and as a referee for several journals, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, and Communications Physics

Full Professor Jerzy Kisilowski, PhD. DSc. Eng. Full professor at the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology until 2011, and then professor at the Faculty of Transport and Electrotechnics of the Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom until 2022. Head of doctoral studies (to 2021). He has promoted 30 PhD students. Author of 350 scientific publications in Polish, English, German and Russian, including 28 scientific and design studies. His scientific interests include dynamics of mechanical systems in transportation, theory of stochastic processes, theory of sensitivity, problems of diagnostics and reliability of mechanical and electronic systems. He was a member of the Transport Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. During his work at the university he actively participated in economic life for 30 years holding managerial positions in public administration and managing medium and large economic entities.