Lee Der-Horng is an academician of the Singapore Academy of Engineering. He is a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, and the Dean of the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He is also an Executive Committee member of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, as well as the Leader of the Transportation Engineering Group. Before joining Zhejiang University in 2021, he was a tenured professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore, and an elected member of the NUS Senate. In 2002, he was named one of the “Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review and has been listed among “World’s Top 2% Scientists” published by Stanford University. He has also been named as “Most Cited Chinese Researcher” by Elsevier. According to the Google Scholar database, Professor Lee ranks first in the field of maritime transportation, and third in the fields of port logistics, public transportation, and urban travel, and fifth in the field of transportation policy. Professor Lee’s research focuses on port and shipping logistics systems, maritime transportation systems, urban mobility systems, urban rail transit systems, transportation planning and policy, etc. He has made prime academic contributions in the fields of large-scale container port logistics operations, intelligent urban rail transit, ultra-flex autonomous mobility system, and high-fidelity traffic simulation. As a foreign academician working full-time in China, Professor Lee was received by President Xi Jinping in Beijing in October 2019.

Research Areas: Port Logistics, Maritime Transportation, Urban Mobility, Public Transportation, Transportation Policy

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 is a professor and is served as Vice Dean of ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, 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. 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. Wee-Liat Ong is an Associate Professor at ZJUI. He graduated with a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was the valedictorian of his class and recipient of the IES gold medal and Lee Kuan Yew gold medal in 2002. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University under Prof. Jonathan Malen and Prof. Alan McGaughey. Before becoming a faculty at ZJUI, he was a joint post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University working with chemists to characterize novel hybrid materials.

Chushan Li received the B.E.E. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. Currently, he is a tenured associate professor in Zhejiang University – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, Zhejiang, China. From April to September in 2008, he was an internship student with the Power Application Design Center in National Semiconductor (Hong Kong) Co.Ltd. From December 2010 to October 2011, he was a visiting scholar with the Freedm Center in North Carolina State University. From December 2013 to June 2014, he was a research assistant in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From July 2014 to July 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada. He has published 34 peer-reviewed papers including 13 top journal papers. He has also filed 7 Chinese patents (all granted).

Research areas: High Power Density Power Converter, Multilevel Converter, Transportation Electrification, High Power Drive System

Tingju Zhu joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute at Zhejiang University as a tenured Associate Professor in December, 2018. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (major in Water Resource Systems Engineering and minor in Agricultural and Resource Economics) in 2004. Prior to that, he earned his B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources from Wuhan University and Tsinghua University, respectively. From 2005 to 2018, he worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Scientist and Research Fellow, conducting interdisciplinary research at the interface of hydrology, engineering, and economics for addressing real-world problems concerning sustainable water resource management, food security and associated socioeconomic outcomes under changing environment. He has led and contributed to many research projects funded by international organizations such as the World Bank, the U.S. National Science Foundation and other federal agencies of the United States, funding agencies of other OECD countries and private foundations. Through these research projects he collaborated with economists, engineers and natural scientists from academia and governmental research agencies internationally. He has co-advised Ph.D. students in major research universities, served on committees of professional association and international conferences as member or co-chair, is a reviewer of several major water, food and interdisciplinary academic journals, and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE. His research has been recognized by the Editors’ Choice Award (2011) of Water Resources Research (WRR), the flagship water journal of the American Geophysical Union, WRR Research Highlight (2018) and the INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources (2018), among others.

Direction：
Water Resource Systems Engineering, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Integrated Modeling of Global Water-Food Systems, Flood Protection Planning, Climate Change Adaptation, Water Economics and Policy

Dr. Cui is a tenured associate professor at ZJUI. Dr. Cui received his Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in 2016 and his undergraduate degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012. He also visited the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012.

Direction：Computational Fluid Dynamics, Design Optimization, Aerodynamic and Heat Transfer Optimization in Turbomachinery

Binbin Li is an Assistant Professor in the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute at the Zhejiang University, International Campus. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California-Berkeley in 2016. Before joining ZJU, he worked as a research associate at the University of Liverpool. Prof. Li’s research focuses on developing innovative statistical methods to address safety, sustainability and resilience issues of the built civil infrastructure systems including bridges, buildings, and road/rail networks. His specific interests include Bayesian system identification, operational modal analysis, infrastructural network modeling and field test, for structure and infrastructure health management and resilience assessment. The ultimate goal of Prof. Li’s work is to equip the civil infrastructure systems with a smart brain so that they can sense, process and react properly to the external excitations, e.g., earthquakes, windstorms.

Direction：Structural Dynamics, Risk & Uncertainty, Structural Health Monitoring, Bayesian statistics

Dr. Lin is an Assistant Professor at ZJUI. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Yale University in 2017 and her undergraduate degree in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2011. Prior to joining ZJUI, she worked at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany as a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. Lin works on interdisciplinary research topics at the interface of Engineering, Biology and Physics. She designs and builds novel microscopes to study intriguing biological structures and functions.

Direction：Super-resolution microscopy, light-sheet microscopy, automated microscope and high-throughput image data process

Dr. Gaoang Wang joined the ZJU-UIUC as an assistant professor in September 2020. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at UIUC. His research interests are computer vision, image and video processing, including multi-object tracking, pose estimation, deep neural networks, etc. Gaoang Wang received a B.S. degree from the electrical engineering department of Fudan University in 2013. He received a M.S. degree from the electrical and computer engineering department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. He then received a Ph.D. degree from the information processing laboratory of the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Washington in 2019. After that, he joined Megvii US office in July 2019 as a research scientist working on multi-frame fusion. He then joined Wyze Labs in November 2019, working on network design for edge-cloud collaboration. Gaoang Wang participated in AI City Challenge held by Nvidia from 2017 to 2019 each year and won the first and second prizes in several tracks. He has published papers in several renowned academic journals and international conferences, including IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-VT, CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, etc.

Research areas：Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing

Dr. Lu, Assistant Dean for academic affairs for undergraduate.