Plenary Speakers  (listed in alphabetical order)

J.S. Chen
William Prager Chair Professor
University of California San Diego

Title of Talk: 
Manifold Learning Based Data-Driven Modeling for Biological Tissues

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Yoon Young Kim
Professor​
Seoul National University

Title of Talk: 
Advances in Beam-based Analysis  Motivated by Efficient Design of Vehicle Body Structures

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Qing Li
Professor​
The University of Sydney

Title of Talk: 
Time-dependent Structural Optimization for Biomedical Problems​

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Wing-Kam Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor​
Northwestern University

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Herbert Mang
Former President, Austrian Academy of Sciences 
Technische Universität Wien

Title of Talk: 
Multiscale Modeling - Structural Analysis - Experiments

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Hiroshi Okuda
Professor​
The University of Tokyo

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David J. Srolovitz
Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Joseph Bordogna Professor
​University of Pennsylvania

Title of Talk: 
On the Mechanics of 2D Alloy Sheets : Application to Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

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Tayfun Tezduyar
James F. Barbour Professor
Rice University

Title of Talk: 
Space-Time Computational Analysis: From Inception to New Generations

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Semi-Plenary Speakers  (listed in alphabetical order)

Andrew Chan
​Professor
University of Tasmania

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Jeng-Tzong Chen
​Lifetime Distinguished Professor
National Taiwan Ocean University

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Maenghyo Cho
​Professor
Seoul National University

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Fangsen Cui
​Professor
Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR

Title of Talk: 
Ultrasonic Wave-based Structural Health Monitoring

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Antonio Huerta
Professor
Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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Nasser Khalili
​Professor
University of NewSouth Wales

Title of Talk: 
A Fully Coupled Flow-Deformation Model for Dynamic Analysis of Unsaturated Soils Including Hydraulic and Mechanical Hystereses

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S. Kitipornchai
Professor
The University of Queensland

Title of Talk: 
Static and Dynamic Analysis of Functionally Graded Porous Structures

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Tae Hee Lee
​Professor
Hanyang University

Title of Talk: 
Analysis and Optimization of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Self-powered Wireless Sensor Systems

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Chao-An Lin
​Professor
National Tsing Hua University

Title of Talk: 
Single and Multi-phase Simulations Using Artificial Compressibility Method on GPU Cluster​

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Gui-Rong Liu
​Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar
University of Cincinnati

Title of Talk: 
Smoothed Finite Element Methods with High Order Strain Fields

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Kengo Nakajima
​Professor
The University of Tokyo

Title of Talk: 
An Innovative Method for Integration of Simulation/Data/Learning in the Exascale/Post-Moore Era

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Ernst Rank
Professor
​Technical University of Munich

Title of Talk: 
Immersed Boundary Methods:  Finite Elements Redesigned

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Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Professor
Northeasteren University

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Tomohiro Takaki
​Professor
Kyoto Institute of Technology

Title of Talk: 
Multi-GPU Accelerated Large-scale Phase-field Simulations for Dendritic Solidification​

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Wolfgang Wall
Professor
Technical University of Munich

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You-Lin Xu
Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title of Talk: 
Fatigue Damage Prognosis of Orthotropic Steel Decks of a Cable-stayed Bridge under Moving Vehicles

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