World Symposium on Materials Science and Engineering WSMSE 2017

Hong Kong, 15-17 March, 2017

The WSMSE 2017 Program Committee

As the WSMSE is organized by the International Association of Engineers and the Engineering Letters, some of the editorial board members of the Engineering Letters and the IAENG journals and the committee members of IAENG Societies are taking part in the WSMSE 2017 International Program Committee.

As the WSMSE conference has been formerly part of The 24th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS) 2016, the IMECS conferences committee members have been listed for reference as followed:

For reference, recent IMECS Program Committee in 2016

	Yousry H. Abdelkader	Alexandria University, Egypt
	Daoud Ait-Kadi	University Laval, Canada
	Basim Al-Najjar	Vaxjo University, Sweden
	Ali Allahverdi	Kuwait University, Kuwait
	Bala P. Amavasai	Sheffield Hallam University, U.K.
	Carlos Henggeler Antunes	University of Coimbra, Portugal
	Djamel Bouchaffra	Oakland University, USA
	Indranil Bose	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Anthony Brabazon	University College Dublin, Ireland
	Mietek Brdys	The University of Birmingham, UK
	Fidel Cacheda	University of A Coruna, Spain
	Alan Hoi-shou Chan	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Felix T.S. Chan	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Chin-Chen Chang	Feng Chia University, Taiwan
	Pranay Chaudhuri	University of the West Indies, West Indies
	Chung Shue Chen	INRIA, France
	Mu-Song Chen	Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
	Qingfeng Chen	Deakin University, Australia
	Wallace Choy	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	T.S. Chung	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Orville Leverne Clubb	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Manuel Jose Damasio	Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
	Chuangyin Dang	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Alexandar Djordjevich	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Yu-fai Fung	Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	G. Ganesan	Adikavi Nannaya University, India
	Robert Gay Kheng Leng	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Zhao-qiang Ge	Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
	Goh Ong Sing	National Technical University of Malaysia, Malaysia
	Angel Marin Gracia	de la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
	Nalan Gulpinar	University of Warwick, UK
	Phil Heaton-Adegbile	University of Portsmouth, UK
	Enrique Herrera-Viedma	University of Granada, Spain
	Josep R. Herrero	Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
	Xu Huang	University of Canberra, Australia
	Chi-Kuang Hwang	Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
	Heung Suk Hwang	TongMyong University, South Korea
	Shigekazu Ishihara	Hiroshima International University, Japan
	Limin Jia	Beijing Jiaotong University, China
	Hsueh-Fen Juan	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
	Rajgopal Kannan	Louisiana State University, USA
	George P. Karatzas	Technical University of Crete, Greece
	Hideki Katagiri	Hiroshima University, Japan
	Graham Kendall	University of Nottingham, UK
	Kensaku Kikuta	University of Hyogo, Japan
	Haeng Kon Kim	Catholic University of DaeGu, South Korea
	Sung-il Kim	Korea University, South Korea
	Cartik Kothari	The University of Memphis, USA
	Mohan Krishnamoorthy	CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences Division, Australia
	Tadahiko Kumamoto	Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
	Reggie Kwan	The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Ho Woo Lee	Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
	Layuan Li	Wuhan University of Technology, China
	Xueliang Li	Nankai University, China
	Yiming Li	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
	Chih-Min Lin	Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
	Baoding Liu	Tsinghua University, China
	Liping Liu	University of Akron, USA
	Elsa M. Macias Lopez	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain
	Kazuaki Maeda	Chubu University, Japan
	Prabhat K.Mahanti	University of New Brunswick, Canada
	Qusay H. Mahmoud	University of Guelph, Canada
	Nikolaos Matsatsinis	Technical University of Crete, Greece
	George Mavrommatis	Hellenic Military Academy, Greece
	Michael McGuigan	Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
	Patricia Melin	Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
	Ludmil Mikhailov	The University of Manchester, UK
	Hiroshi Mineno	Shizuoka University, Japan
	Herman Monsuur	Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands
	Chiung Moon	Yonsei University, South Korea
	Alejandro Murua	University of Montreal, Canada
	Nysret Musliu	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
	Didier Nakache	CNAM de Paris, France
	Jun Ni	The University of Iowa, USA
	Lars Nolle	Nottingham Trent University, UK
	A. Alper Ozalp	Uludag University, Turkey
	Wan- Kai Pang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Apostolos N. Papadopoulos	Aristotle University, Greece
	Selwyn Piramuthu	University of Florida, USA
	I.M. Premachandra	University of Otago, New Zealand
	A.B. Rad	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
	Marina Resta	Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Italy
	Cornel I. G. Resteanu	National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
	Maria Luque Rodriguez	University of Cordoba, Spain
	Raul Rojas	Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
	Carlos Romero	Technical University of Madrid, Spain
	Susumu Saito	The Institute for Science of Labour, Japan
	Tadeusz Sawik	AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland
	Quah Tong Seng	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Rosemary R. Seva	De La Salle University, Philippines
	Vrijendra Singh	Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India
	Yannis Siskos	University of Piraeus, Greece
	Elhadi Shakshuki	Acadia University, Canada
	Dharmendra Sharma	University of Canberra, Australia
	Jiuh-Biing Sheu	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
	Shey-Huei Sheu	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
	Yuri Grigoriyevich Stoyan	Institute for Problems in Machinery of National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
	Tan Sui	University Oxford, UK
	Junping Sun	Nova Southeastern University, USA
	Zhaohao Sun	University of Wollongong, Australia
	Manoj Kumar Tiwari	National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), India
	Dat Tran	University of Canberra, Australia
	Francisco Herrera Triguero	University of Granada, Spain
	Lin-Yu Tseng	Providence University, Taiwan
	Shinichi Tsuda	Tokai University, Japan
	Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng	Kainan University, Taiwan
	Lev V. Utkin	St.Petersburg Forest Technical Academy, Russia
	Ismael Vaz	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Jose Luis Verdegay	Universidad de Granada, Spain
	Hsiao-Fan Wang	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
	Long Wang	Peking University, China
	Shyh-Hau Wang	Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
	Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya University, Japan
	Frank Werner	Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
	Igor Wojnicki	AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland
	Ed Xuekui Wu	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Trong Wu	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
	Guangming Xie	Peking University, China
	Li Xu	Zhejiang University, China
	Susan H. Xu	Penn State University, USA
	Gi-Chul Yang	Mokpo National University, South Korea
	Xin-She Yang	University of Cambridge, UK
	Ali Riza Yildiz	University of Michigan, USA
	Kun-Ming Yu	Chung Hua University, Taiwan
	Cecilia Zanni	Marc Bloch University, France
	Xiaohua (Douglas) Zhang	Merck Research Laboratories, USA
	Zhe George Zhang	Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Yao Zhao	Beijing Jiaotong University, China
	Yong Zhao	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Constantin Zopounidis	Technical University of Crete, Greece

WSMSE Conference Co-Chairs and Committee Members:

Dr. E. Abbasi
Lecturer, Engineering & Motor Vehicle Department, The Sheffield College, U.K.

Dr. Emre Acar
Assistant Professor, Department of Aircraft Engineering, Erciyes University, Turkey

Dr. S. I. Ao (Secretary)
IAENG Secretariat, International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong

Prof. Mehdi Shahedi Asl
(Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran

Dr. Behzad Avishan
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Prof. Fabiano Baldo
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil

Dr. Dorota Bociaga
PhD, Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Poland

Prof. Furong Cao
Associate Professor, School of Materials science and Engineering, Northeastern University, U.S.

Prof. D. Chakravorty
Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India

Prof. D.L. Chen
Professor, Ryerson Research Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada

Prof. Yu Chen
Associate professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Turbadrakh Chuluunbat
Vice Director, Mandakh Burtgel University, Mongolia

Prof. Zhenshan Cui
Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Dr. K. Dehghani
Associate Professor, Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

Dr. Thomas Dorin
Associate Research, Institute for Frontier Materials, GTP Research, Deakin University, Australia

Prof. M. Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

Prof. Kaveh Edalati
Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, Japan

Prof. E.A. Eid
Assistant Professor, Applied Physics in Basic Science Department, Higher Technological Institute, Epypt

Prof. Ali A. Ensafi
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Prof. Saeed Farahany
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Buein Zahra Technical University, Iran

Dr. Balazs Fekete
Research and development engineer, Ecotech LTD., Hungary

Prof. Bhuvanesh Gupta
Professor, Bioengineering Laboratory, Institute of Technology, India

Prof. Abdelhamid Harabi
Professor, Department of Physics, Mentouri University of Constantine, Algerie

Prof. Jeff Th. M. De Hosson
Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Zernike Institue for Advanced Materials, Materials Science group, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Dr. J.J. Hoyos
Metals Characterization and Processing Laboratory, Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory, National Research Center for Energy and Materials, Brazil

Dr. Hongtao Huang
Associate Researcher, Department of Reactor Engineering Research and Design, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China

Dr. K. Huang
PX Group chair, Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy, Switzerland

Dr. Feng-Huei Lin
Director, Ins. Biomed Eng. & Nano-med, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Prof. Jayant Jain
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi, India

Dr. Pradeep K Jha
Senior Research Scientist, School of Medical Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Dr. Shouxun Ji
Lecturer, BCAST, Brunel University, U.K.

Prof. Deepak Kumar
Assistant Professor, Industrial Tribology, Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Dr. Hansang Kwon
CEO, Department of Materials System Engineering, Korea

Prof. Yunping Li
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, China

Prof. Y.C. Lin
Professor, Central South University, China

Prof. Wangyu Liu
Professor, Mechanical and Automobile Engineering School, South China University of Technology, China

Prof. Jagriti Narang
Assistant Professor, Amity University, India

Prof. Mitsuhiro Okayasu
Professor, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology,Laboratory for Structural Materials Science, Okayama University, Japan

Dr. Joseba Mendiguren Olaeta
Lecturer, Mechanical and Manufacturing department, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain

Prof. Helinando Pequeno de Oliveira
Professor, Federal University of Sao Francisco Valley, Brazil

Prof. Chang-Jiang Pan
Laboratory for Structural Materials Science, Okayama University, Japan

Dr. Kevin P. Plucknett
Professor, Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

Prof. K. Eswar Prasad
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Sciences, Mahindra École Centrale, India

Prof. Subbiyan Rajendran
Professor, Biomedical Materials, The University of Bolton, U.K.

Prof. K.K. Ramachandran
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Govt. Engineering College, India

Dr. A. Ramazani
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

Dr. Peiman Shahbeigi-Roodposhti
Postdoctoral research Scholar, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, USA

Prof. Onur Saray
Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Turkey

Prof. K.G. Satyanarayana
Emeritus Director, RRL-Triv.CSIR-India; Former Visiting Professor, Colombo

Dr. Jianghua Shen
Researcher, Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan

Prof. M. Song
Assistant Professor, College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum, China

Prof. J.L. Strudel
Professor, Jean-Loup STRUDEL, Centre des Materiaux, France

Dr. Fang Wang
Associate researcher, Graduate School of Shanghai Ocean University, China

Dr. Zhi Wang
Research associate, WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan

Prof. Yingkui Yang
Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hubei University, China

Prof. Liangchi Zhang
Scientia Professor, School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr. Tiantian Zhang
Research Associate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.

Dr. Baochun Zhao
Senior Engineer, Iron and Steel Research Institute, China