Honorary Chairs:

• Rudolph Buchheit: Dean, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky
• Jiluan Pan: Professor, Tsinghua University and Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

General Chairs: 

• YuMing Zhang: Fellow, AWS, SME and ASME and James Boyd Professor, University of Kentucky
• Shanben Chen: National Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Zhili Feng: Fellow, AWS and IIW and Leader and Distinguished Technical Staff, Welding and Joining, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Committee Chairs: 

• Xuemin Hua: Director, Welding and Laser Processing Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Yu Shi: Director of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Nonferrous Metals and Dean of Graduate School, Lanzhou University of Technology
• Fazleena Badurdeen: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies – Manufacturing Engineering, University of Kentucky
• Jian Chen: R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Organizing Committee Chairs:

• Shujun Chen: Dean and Changjiang Distinguished Professor, College of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics, Beijing University of Technology
• Dan Ionel: IEEE Fellow, L. Stanley Pigman Chair, University of Kentucky

 

Host: University of Kentucky College of Engineering  

Organizing Institutions:

• University of Kentucky Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University Welding and Laser Processing Institute

Co-Organizing Institutions:

• University of Kentucky Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Beijing University of Technology Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics.
• Lanzhou University of Technology-State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Nonferrous Metals
• University of Tennessee – Knoxville Mechanical Engineering
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory