Committee

Local Organizing Committee

Dr Rafael Santiago

Conference Chair

Director of Energy Absorption Group,

Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.

Prof. Zhongwei Guan

Co-Conference Chair

Executive Director of Advanced Materials Research Center,

Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.

Dr Alia Ruzanna Aziz

Program chair

Sr. Researcher,

Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.

Omar Ba Nabila

Co-Program Chair

Sr. Engineer

Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.

Andrew Chopra

Marketing Events Manager,

Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.

International Steering Committee

• Prof. Mark Stewart, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Prof. James S. Davidson, Auburn University, United States of America
• Prof. Piotr Sielicki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Qin Fang, Army Engineering University of PLA, China
• Prof. Norbert Gebbeken, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
• Prof. Hong Hao, Guangzhou University, China / Curtin University, Australia
• Prof. Qingming Li, University of Manchester, England, United Kingdom
• Prof. Zhong-Xian Li, Tianjin University, China
• Prof. Jeffrey Packer, University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Masuhiro Beppu, National Defense Academy, Japan
• Prof. David Yankelevsky, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Dr. Rafael Santiago, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Avraham Dancygier, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
• Dr. Leopold Kruszka, Military University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Guoxing Lu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Prof. Dora Karagiozova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria ​
• Prof. Xiaowei Chen, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China
• Prof. Wesley Cantwell, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
• Prof. Dong Ruan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Prof. Marcílio Alves, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Prof. Steeve Chung Kim Yuen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Prof. Jin Zhou, Xian Jiaotong University, China
• Prof. Magnus Langseth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Prof. Dora Karagiozova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Prof. Sandro Amico, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Prof. Victor Shim, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
• Prof. Flavio Silva, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Prof. Jian Xiong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Prof. Guangyong Sun, Hunan University, China
• Assoc. Prof. Vegard Aune, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Prof. Tore Borvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Prof. Francois Boussu, GEMTEX ROUBAIX, France
• Dr. Teresa Fras, French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), France
• Prof. Michael Seica, University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Yanchao Shi, Tianjin University, China
• Prof. Yang Ding, Tianjin University, China
• Prof. Jiabao Yan, Tianjin University, China
• Assoc. Prof. Jian Cui, Tianjin University, China
• Prof. Yanhong Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Dr. Ziwen Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Dr. Hasan Al Rifaie, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Dr. Mohd Zuhri Mohamed Yusoff, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
• Prof. Licheng Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Dr. Lei Yang, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
• Dr. Tomas Gajewski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Prof. Xianfeng Zhang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
• Prof. Daniel Ambrosini, University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
• Prof . Yong Lu, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Prof . Ser Tong Quek, National University of Singapore
• Alexander Stolz, Fraunhofer EMI, Germany