Prof. Zhenlei Chen

National Special Expert

Ningbo University, China

Biography:

Zhenlei Chen, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Maritime Academy, Doctor of Engineering from University of Illinois, USA, and National Specially Appointed Expert. He was a senior engineer in the engine division of Ford Motor Company and technical director of Sany Group. He is also an expert in the evaluation of the Ten Thousand People Program, QR Program, and Key Special Projects of Zhejiang Province. Research areas include shaftless rim propeller, engine, precision machine tools and other high-end manufacturing digital twin, CAE simulation and test and inspection technology research, the main research direction for the ship and sea engineering, mechanical engineering structures and systems of strength and fatigue, flow field and performance, vibration and noise of the computer simulation and test and inspection. He presides over vertical projects such as Jiangsu Province Industrial Support Program, Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Fund, Zhejiang Province Engineering Research Center for Healthy and Smart Kitchen, Ningbo City 2025 Major Special Project, and so on. He has cooperated with Sany Heavy Machinery, Yuchai Power, LiuGong Group, Shandong Juming, Ningbo Fangtai and other famous enterprises in industry-academia-research cooperation. 27 SCI papers have been published in Journal of Building Engineering and other journals since 2017.

Assoc. Prof. Zerui Peng

Director of the Mechanics Society of 

Hubei Province and Wuhan

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Biography:

Dr., Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, entered University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2008, received his Bachelor of Science degree in 2012, and was guaranteed to be admitted to the Academician Lu Xiyun's group for Master's degree, and received his PhD degree in 2018, and joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in the same year. He is mainly engaged in teaching and scientific research of fluid mechanics, and has conducted research on bionic propulsion, fluid-solid coupling and flow control, and his results have been published in authoritative journals in the field, such as J. Fluid Mech. and other journals, and he has presided over 10 scientific research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (youth and surface). He has served as a reviewer for J. Fluid Mech., Phys. Fluids, Acta Mech. Sin., Journal of Mechanics, Journal of Aerodynamics and other mainstream academic journals at home and abroad, and is a director of the Mechanics Society of Hubei Province and Wuhan City.

Prof. Ramesh Bhoraniya

Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Marwadi University, India

Biography:

Dr. Ramesh Bhoraniya is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Marwadi University, Rajkot, India. He earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, and completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. With over 24 years of teaching experience, his primary research interests lie in analytical and computational fluid dynamics. Dr. Bhoraniya has authored more than 30 research papers in a reputed international journals and conferences and authored one reference books published by Springer. In 2016, he was awarded the best technical paper award at the Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, organized by IE Malaysia. He has successfully led one research projects funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India, and is currently working on a project funded by Dr. Allan Williams, a freelancer solar researcher from UK.

Assoc. Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad

HEC Approved Supervisor (since 2017）

Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Pakistan

Biography:

Imtiaz Ahmad, dedicated and accomplished Assistant Professor with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, offering over two decades of experience in academia and management. Currently serving as Assistant Professor at Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST) since February 2017. Before joining this institution, the career commenced at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (UAJ&K) in 2001. Adept at teaching a diverse range of courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels, including Fluid Mechanics, Dynamical Systems, and Numerical Analysis. Recognized for leadership roles, including Director Quality Enhancement Cell at MUST, where I received multiple awards for outstanding contributions, including the launch of Online Education. Extensive involvement in research, memberships, and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence.