John P. T. Mo is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and former Head of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering at RMIT University, Australia, since 2007. He has been an active researcher in manufacturing and complex systems for over 35 years and worked for educational and scientific institutions in Hong Kong and Australia. From 1996, John was a Project Manager and Research Team Leader with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for 11 years leading a team of 15 research scientists. John has a broad research interest and has received numerous industrial research grants. A few highlights of the projects include: signal diagnostics for plasma cutting machines, ANZAC ship alliance engineering analysis, optimisation of titanium machining for aerospace industry, critical infrastructure protection modelling and analysis, polycrystalline diamond cutting tools on multi-axes CNC machine, system analysis for support of complex engineering systems John obtained his doctorate from Loughborough University, UK and is a Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) and Institution of Engineers Australia.

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Yu-Lung Lo received his B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has been faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department, NCKU, since 1996, where he is now a University Chair professor and Vice Dean of College of Engineering / Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing. He was Director of Instrument Development Center and Chairman of Department of Mechanical Engineering in NCKU. Also, He was a visiting scientist in University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Lo received Research Excellence Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan, 2018, 2021; Fellow of Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) in Taiwan, 2019; Fellow of Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) in USA, 2018; ASE Scholar in Research Excellence, Taiwan, 2017; and Outstanding Award for Professor in Engineering, Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers in Taiwan, 2013. Also, he received the First-Class Research Award from National Science Council (NSC), 2005/2006, and the Dr. Ta-You Wu Award for Young Researchers from NSC, 2002. He was invited to be an invited speaker, keynote speaker, and plenary speaker in the optics and 3D printing related international conferences, and also organized and chaired section of international conferences, especially General Chair of International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technology in 2017. Now he is Chairman of Asian Society of Experiment Mechanics (ASEM) and executive council member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Taiwan Section. His research interests include biophotonics, 3D printing on metal powder, and laser machining on semiconductor materials. He has authored over 190 journal publications and has filed for several patents. One of his articles is included in Spotlight on Optics by OSA in 2015. Also, he is included in Analysis of 2023 Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) (1960 - 2022) and Top 2% Scientists in 2021/2022.

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Prof IR Lim is currently a registered professional engineer (RPE). He received a first degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, a Master's Degree and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Lim is also a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Western Sydney, Dalian University of Technology, etc. He has expertise in vibration of plate and shell structures, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics and symplectic elasticity. He is the Editor for Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (JoMMS), Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies (JVET), Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC), International Subject Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling (AMM), and also on the editorial board of some other international journals. He has published among one of the well-selling titles in Engineering Mechanics entitled "Symplectic Elasticity", co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong, as recorded in April 2010 by the publisher, World Scientific. He has published more than 300 international journal papers, accumulated more than 3000 independent citations, and one of the papers was granted the IJSS 2004-2008 most cited article award. He was also awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society.

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