Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal
Fellow of IEEE, AIAA, AAAS, APS, ASME
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
R amesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of forty years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), Neuro-Computing, Control Theory and Systems, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 500 journal and refereed conference publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide in over fifty countries. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow eighteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.
Prof. Osamu TABATA
Fellow of IEEE, IEEJ
Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan
Osamu Tabata
received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute of
Technology, Japan, in 1981 and 1993, respectively. In 1981, he
joined the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories,
Inc., Japan. In 1996, he joined the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. In 2003, he moved to
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University,
Japan. Since April 2005, he has been a Professor at the
Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University. From October
2019, he moved to Kyoto University of Advanced Science as a
founding Dean of Engineering School. He is currently engaged in
research on micro/nano processes, MEMS, DNA nanotechnology.
Prof. Tabata was a guest professor at the Department of
Microsystem Engineering, University of Freiburg, Germany from
September to December 2000, a guest Professor of ETH Zurich,
Switzerland from January to March 2001, a visiting senior
international scientist of the Chinese Academy of Science in
2010, a guest Professor of Huazong University of Science and
Technology, China from July 2011 to July 2014, a senior research
fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
from May 2010 to September 2012, a distinguished visiting
researcher of American University in Cairo in 2016 and a
visiting Professor of Tsinghua University China from November
2018. He is a senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Nanotechnology (TNANO), an associate editor of the ASME/IEEE
Journal of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (JMEMS), and an
editorial board member of the Elsevier Journal Sensors and
Actuators. He is as a member of Award Committee for EDS. He is
also a program committee member of many important International
Conferences in his area of expertise. He is a Fellow of
Institute of Electrical Engineer Japan and fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Dr. Eui Lee
Loyola Marymount University, USA
Dr. Lee has
more than 30 years of extensive materials research, acquisition
support and technology development experience in the areas of
warfighting requirements, system requirements, systems
capabilities and laser technologies. Over the last ten years,
Dr. Lee has been serving as a future warfighting requirements
lead for NAWCAD Strategic Operations. His duties include leading
key areas in developing the NAWCAD Strategic Plan including
efforts to integrate advanced warfighting requirements and
innovation. Also, he is leading study efforts focused on
Anti-access/Area denial (A2/AD) and high energy laser (HEL)
weapons in NAWCAD. His role on HEL includes investigations into
HEL weapon warfighting CONOPS and enabling capabilities for
offensive and defensive operations, and he has participated in
ASN(RD&A) HEL Steering Group participation as well as the DARPA
high energy liquid laser area defense system(HELLADS) program as
the NAVAIR POC. He also lead in the areas of new weapon systems
in developing navy 30 year RDT&E plan. He retired from the navy
two years ago. Since his retirement from the navy, he has been
teaching materials at Loyola Marymount University.
Prior to the current position, Dr. Lee was selected to serve for
two years as a Technology Fellow with the CNO Strategic Studies
Group, tasked with strategic planning of innovative war fighting
concepts to lead to long-term naval advancements and supremacy.
Prof. Yong Suk Yang
Pusan National University, KOREA
Yong Suk Yang is a Professor Emeritus in the Nanoenergy Engineering Department and former Dean of the College of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, and former Director of the Research Center for Dielectric and Advanced Matter Physics at Pusan National University. He received his BS in physics in 1977 from Sogang University, Seoul, and PhD in solid state physics in 1990 from McGill University, Montreal. He is a faculty member since 1993. He has been carrying out experiments at neutron- and synchrotron radiation- related international facilities, NSLS, APS, SSRL, Oak Ridge (USA), AECL (Canada), SPring8 (Japan), Riso (Denmark), KAERI (Korea). He has published various articles on the phase transitions of structural order-disorder, spin dynamics on low dimensional magnet, glass-crystallization through nucleation and growth, negative thermal expansion. Multiferroics, dielectric relaxation, solid oxide fuel cell, lithium ion battery are also his recent interests. Not only research but he also emphases the importance of education and training. He has taught under and graduate students over 30 different subjects, quantum mechanics, statistics, solid state physics, thin films, electronic properties of materials, thermoelectric, semiconductor, thermal physics, ceramics, dielectrics, modern physics…, during the last 20 years.
Prof. Omar S. Es-Said
Loyola Marymount University, USA
Omar S. Es-Said is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He was hired as an assistant professor from 1985-1992, associate professor from 1992-1998, and full professor from 1998-present. He received his B.S. degree in physics and his M.S. degree in solid state physics from The American University in Cairo. He received his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Kentucky, Lexington in 1985. His current research interests include metallic processing, modeling, experimental, techniques, and failure analysis. He published over 300 papers, which included refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, industrial reports, and Department of Defense (DoD) reports. He has been an associate editor from 2008-present for the American Society of Materials’ (ASM) Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (JMEP). He has been a key reader for the Metallurgical Transactions A Journal from 2004-present. He has been on the editorial board of the Engineering Failure Analysis Journal from 2003-present. He received several awards: The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Teetor Award in 1994, until the Elmer L. Hann Award from The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 2011. He received several grants for research funds and research equipment from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Boeing Cooperation, and the Navy for a total of over $3.2 million dollars. He was a consultant for the Navy from 1994-present. He was hired as a Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow at The Navy Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC) in the summers of 2010-2014. He became an American Science of Materials (ASM) Fellow in 2005. He was an invited speaker in many conferences and universities including: Cambridge University, The American University in Cairo, and Paris 8 University.