Der-Horng Lee is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, former Dean of the Zhejiang University–University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, and holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. He currently serves as an Executive Committee Member and Director of the Transportation Division of the Academy of Engineering Singapore. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to transportation and logistics systems.
Before joining Zhejiang University, Professor Lee was a tenured full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore and a member of the University Senate. Over the years, he has been active at the forefront of future transportation, logistics systems, smart cities, and decision-making for complex systems, with extensive experience spanning academic research, policy advisory work, and industrial practice. In 2002, he was named one of the TR35: Global Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 by MIT Technology Review. He has also been consistently listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists and Elsevier’s Highly Cited Researchers in China.
Professor Lee’s scholarly influence has long been at the forefront internationally across multiple areas, including transportation logistics, port operations, maritime transportation, intermodal transport, and public transportation. His research encompasses future transportation and AI systems, the low-altitude economy and unmanned transportation networks, intermodal transport and smart supply chain optimization, digital twins and intelligent decision-making for complex systems, as well as sustainable mobility and urban transport governance. He has produced a series of original and internationally influential contributions in such areas as large-scale container port logistics operations, urban rail transit, highly accessible autonomous transportation systems, and high-fidelity transportation simulation.
In addition to his academic work, Professor Lee has long been involved in strategic and policy planning related to transportation and national development in Singapore. He also previously served at a major publicly listed technology company as Senior Vice President for Research and Development, where he was responsible for major R&D programs and the management of high-level technical teams. His career spans academia, policy, and industry, giving him a distinctive and integrative perspective.
As a foreign academician working full-time in China, Professor Lee was received by President Xi Jinping in Beijing in October 2019.

Research Areas
1.Future Transportation and Artificial Intelligence Systems
2.Low-Altitude Economy and Unmanned Transportation Networks
3.Intermodal Transport and Smart Supply Chain Optimization
4.Digital Twins and Intelligent Decision-Making for Complex Systems
5.Sustainable Mobility and Urban Transport Governance

Jian-Ming Jin received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1989. He joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and is currently the Y. T. Lo Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director with the Electromagnetics Laboratory and Center for Computational Electromagnetics. He has authored and coauthored more than 280 papers in refereed journals and 22 book chapters. He has also authored The Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics (Wiley, 1st ed. 1993, 2nd ed. 2002, and 3rd ed. 2014), Electromagnetic Analysis and Design in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CRC, 1998), Theory and Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (Wiley, 1st ed. 2010 and 2nd ed. 2015), and coauthored Computation of Special Functions (Wiley, 1996), Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics (Artech, 2001), and Finite Element Analysis of Antennas and Arrays (Wiley, 2008). His current research interests include computational electromagnetics, multiphysics modeling, scattering and antenna analysis, electromagnetic compatibility, high-frequency circuit modeling and analysis, bioelectromagnetics, and magnetic resonance imaging. He was elected by the ISI as one of the world’s most cited authors in 2002, and is also a Fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), Electromagnetics Academy, and Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES).

Prof. Ma, Vice Dean of ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University (2017-2025), is a Professor and PhD supervisor of the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University. He currently serves as the Vice President of the China Power Supply Society, the Deputy Director of the Professional Committee on Wireless Power Transfer Technology and Devices. He is also the Deputy Director of the Wireless Power Transfer Technology Professional Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society. Additionally, he holds the positions of Vice President and Secretary-general of Power Supply Society of Zhejiang Province, as well as Vice President of the Zhejiang Electrical and Power Engineering Society. Prof. Ma was served as AdCom member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2014-2015), Technical Program Chair of IEEE PEAS 2021, IEEE PEAC 2018, IEEE PEAC 2014 and IEEE ISIE 2012, and was served as Co-chair of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Track, IEEE IECON 2010, Co-chair of Power Electronics and Energy Conversion, IEEE IECON 2013, Special Session Co-chair of IEEE IECON 2017, Co-chair of Power Systems and Smart Grids, IEEE IECON 2018 and IEEE IECON 2019. Prof. Ma has won 1 second - prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, 1 grand - prize, 1 first - prize, and 1 second - prize of the provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. He has also obtained 1 first - prize of the Technological Invention Award of the Ministry of Education, 2 first - prizes and 1 second - prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Zhejiang Province, 1 second - prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, and 1 second - prize of the Natural Science Award of the National Science and Technology Award nominated by the Ministry of Education. He served as the chief editor of the national planning textbooks for the 11th and 12th Five - Year Plan periods, and one of the textbooks was rated as an excellent textbook by the Ministry of Education. Under his guidance, postgraduate students have won 2 excellent master's theses and 1 excellent doctoral thesis in Zhejiang Province.

His main research contents include power electronics technology and its applications, advanced control technologies for power electronics, wireless power transfer technology, power electronics technology in electric vehicles, theories and methods for fault diagnosis of power electronics systems, new high - efficiency power conversion topologies and control technologies, etc.

Prof. Philip T. Krein, Executive Dean of ZJUI, holds the Grainger Endowed Emeritus Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics and is Professor Emeritus and Director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, UIUC. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He published an undergraduate textbook, Elements of Power Electronics (Oxford University Press, second edition 2015). In 2001, he helped initiate the International Future Energy Challenge, a major student competition involving fuel cell power conversion and energy efficiency. He holds 42 U.S. patents with additional patents pending.
Prof. Krein is a registered professional engineer in Illinois and in Oregon. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2003 received the IEEE William E. Newell Award in Power Electronics. He is a past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and past Chair of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.

Prof. Hongwei Wang is a tenured professor at ZJUI where he services as the vice dean and the director of the data and information sciences research program. He is the vice president of the Information Technology Branch of the Zhejiang Association of Scholars from Overseas. Prof. Wang serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches twice in international conferences, and has won four best paper awards. Prior to joining Zhejiang University, he held a permanent academic position at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Prof. Wang got his bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University, China, his master degree from Tsinghua University, China, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, respectively. Prof. Wang has a broad interest in Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) in the design, analysis, manufacture and maintenance of complex systems. He has been focusing on industrial knowledge graph, knowledge-based reasoning and decision making, fault diagnosis in the past few years. He has published over 140 papers in well-established journals and conferences such as IEEE Trans. on Services Computing, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Trans. on SMC: Systems、Energy, Neurocomputing, Energy.

Prof. Yan Xiao is currently the program director for Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure Sciences and a professor of ZJU-UIUC Institute. Prof Xiao Yan received his PhD degree in Structural Engineering in 1989, from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He served as the Dean in the College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China and the Dean of College of Civil Engineering at the Hunan University, he joined the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California from since 1994, where he had been a tenured full professor till 2011. His main research interests include design of structures against extreme loads, structural concrete, steel, hybrid or composite systems, structural materials, and experimental equipment development. He has more than 400 technical publications including more than ninety refereed journal papers. Many of these papers are pioneering in the relevant areas and are highly cited by scholars around the world. Besides his dedicated research and teaching activities, his administrative management experience is also various, including the laboratory committee chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USC, previous board member of the CUREe (California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering). Under his management, the structural testing capability of University of Southern California was greatly improved.