Keynote Speakers
Prof. Zhi Zong
Fuyao University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Zhi Zong is an internationally acclaimed researcher in naval architecture, ocean engineering, computational mechanics, and fluid–structure interaction, widely recognized for his influential contributions to marine hydrodynamics and advanced numerical simulation. With 334 publications, 5,653 citations, and an h-index of 38 (Scopus), his research covers underwater explosion (UNDEX) physics, nonlinear water waves, bubble dynamics, vortex-induced vibration (VIV), unsteady cavitation, water-entry dynamics, and high-fidelity computational fluid mechanics, employing cutting-edge techniques such as SPH, DEM, and data-driven modeling.
He has authored over 460 scientific papers, including more than 230 SCI-indexed articles, and has been continuously listed among the Top 2% Scientists globally (2021–2025). His seven authoritative monographs published with Elsevier, Taylor & Francis/CRC, and Science Press span differential quadrature methods, solitary wave theory, computational underwater explosion mechanics, and bubble damage modeling. Professor Zong’s research has significantly advanced understanding of shock loading on marine structures, hydrodynamic impact, cavitating and multiphase flows, ice–structure interactions, ship motion reduction, and complex multi-physics simulations, with many of his highly cited publications regarded as landmark contributions to SPH modeling, multiphase flow analysis, UNDEX damage prediction, and VIV dynamics.
Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi
IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi
Sanjeev Sanghi is Professor and Chair of the Applied Mechanics Department at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Having obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur, he worked with John Lumley in turbulence modelling for his M.S. from Cornell University. He got his Ph.D. from the Levich Institute of the City College of City University of New York. He has been a recipient of the Ralph Boliagno award for being the most distinguished Teaching assistant at Cornell University and the Excellence in Teaching Award at I.I.T. Delhi. He was Member, Board of Governors, Head Educational Technology and Dean Alumni Affairs and International programmes at IIT Delhi. As Dean Alumni Affairs he set up a Global 1 Billion Dollars Alumni Endowment Fund for IIT Delhi. Currently he is the Head of Applied Mechanics Department at IIT Delhi, where he has spearheaded a new B. Tech. programme in Engineering and Computational Mechanics.
He is recognized globally for work on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Chaos and Low Dimensional Modelling, Development of New Discretization Schemes in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Modelling of Turbulent Flows. He has applied POD to near wall turbulent flows, rotating flows with natural convection and flows in a square duct. His work on outflow boundary condition for unsteady flows in open domains for incompressible flows demonstrates a novel way to reduce domain size in open flows. He has also developed a new upwinding scheme for compressible flows which is more efficient than the existing schemes.
Prof. Zhiying Ren
Fuzhou University
Deputy Dean (Acting Dean) of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University; Director of the Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Vibration and Noise Reduction of National Defense Equipment; Distinguished Minjiang Scholar of Fujian Province; Fujian High-Level Talent; and core member of the Innovation Team of the Joint Fund of the Ministry of Education. She currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Tribology Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Member of the Reactor Structural Mechanics Committee of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Member of the Human Vibration Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering, Vice President of the Fujian Society of Mechanics, and Executive Council Member of the Fujian Association of Women Scientists and Technologists. She has led more than 30 projects, including the NSAF Key Program and General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Innovation Zone projects of the Military Science Commission, equipment pre-research projects, provincial and ministerial key projects, as well as commissioned projects from nuclear power enterprises and other institutions. She has published more than 100 papers, authored one monograph published by Science Press, and been granted 58 national invention patents. Her achievements have received one First Prize and one Second Prize of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, one Second Prize of the Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Progress Award, and one Second Prize of the China Invention Association Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award.
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