The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Conference Chair
Professor Huihe Qiu is currently Head of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Director of the Building Energy Research Center (BERC) of the HKUST Nansha Fok Ying Tung Graduate School. Professor Qiu received his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Fluid Mechanics, LSTM, at the University of Erlangen, France in 1994. Professor Qiu’s research areas are in, multiphase flow and heat transfer, fluid dynamics, optical diagnostics, nano- and microfluids and flapping wing aerodynamics. Professor Qiu is Editor-in-Chief/Editor/Associate Editor of four international journals and a member of the editorial board for more than 10 international journals, such as the members of Editorial Advisory Board of Experiments in Fluids. He has been invited to give 21 plenary and keynote speeches in International Conferences. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award of Institute of Physics (IOP) in 1994, Philips Outstanding Paper Award in the International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (2012), ASME Best Poster Award (2010), Best Paper Award, 2nd World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, Material Engineering (2016), Best Paper Award, 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (2017), The State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (SSTPA) and the Scientific and Technological Achievement Award from the State Education Commission.
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Conference Chair
Dr. Marcello Iasiello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, which he joined in 2017 as an Assistant Professor. His major is Mechanical Engineering, and his research interests cover heat transfer in porous materials, thermal storage, thermal management, AI-based optimization, and bioengineering applications. He is also co-chair of the MCM conference series from 2022. As of August 2025 (source: Scopus), he coauthored 114 scientific articles, namely 66 journal articles, 41 conference papers, 4 book chapters, 2 review articles, and 1 editorial.
Dr. Liu is serving the editorial boards for five peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Information Fusion, Machine Vision and Applications, and Intelligent Industrial Systems. He also served as a reviewer for numerous funding agencies, journals, conferences, and publishers. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of SPIE and holds the professional engineer license in both British Columbia and Ontario.
Dr. Liu’s research focuses on data/information fusion, computer vision, machine learning, sensor techniques, structural health monitoring, non-destructive inspection, and prognostic health management. He received three best conference paper awards and participated numerous research projects with government agencies, industries, academic units, and research organizations.