Prof. Aizheng Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Sichuan University in 2007. After postdoctoral research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for two years, he joined Huaqiao University, where he is now a professor and vice dean of College of Chemical Engineering, and director of Institute of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. He also serves as a committee member of Chinese Society for Biomaterials, and the secretary-general of Chinese Society for Biomaterial-Composite Materials Branch. He was a visiting research professor for a year in Prof. Ali Khademhosseini Lab at Harvard medical school. He has been granted 9 National projects, and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications; His research interests are the application of biomaterials for drug delivery systems using supercritical fluid technology, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He was listed in 2020 National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project and awarded with an honorary title "Young and mid-aged expert with outstanding contribution”.

Prof. Gang Li is currently a full-time professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University, China. Dr. Li is the 15th high level talent of “Top six talent peaks” and selected talent of “Double Creative Plan" in Jiangsu province of China. Dr. Li obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical textiles and Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also a visiting professor of Tufts University (Prof. David Kaplan’s team). Dr. Li published over 100 academic articles and issued 40 patents between 2006 and 2022, including Biomaterials, Acta Biamaterialia, Advanced Healthcare Materials, ACS Applied Materials Interface, etc. Dr. Li presented talks, organized symposia and workshops at various international scientific conferences, etc. His research interests focus on biomedical materials, functional and smart textiles by combining of materials, biomedical and textile engineering.

Dr. Jiashen Li is a Lecturer in Textile Science & Engineering in the Department of Materials. His research interests involve the science and technology underpinning processing-structure-property relationships in functional fibers and textiles; including nano fibres, bio-functional fibres, smart fibres and textiles, e-textile, and structural fibre-composites. With more than ten years’ experience on fibre spinning, he has significantly expanded his studies of advanced functional polymer fibres and textiles. Dr Jiashen Li obtained his PhD in Polymer Materials (Physics) from Tianjin University (China) in 2001. He then spent thirteen years conducting biomaterials and fibre spinning in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), before joining the University of Manchester in 2015. 

Prof. Rajesh Mishra works at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic. His research areas are nanomaterials and nano-textiles, textile structural composites, green composites, nanocomposites, biomechanical engineering of fibrous structures, thermo-mechanical characterization of materials etc. He has about 200 publications in international journals and about 300 presentations in international conferences. His teaching and research activities include subjects based on nanotechnology, biomaterials, structural mechanics of fibrous structures in general and 3D woven structures in particular, textile quality characterization, engineering of textile structures, biomechanics of apparel textiles etc. He is responsible for internationals students’ education and research at the faculty of engineering. Till date he has successfully guided 7 PhD candidates leading to award of title. The graduates are highly placed in academia and industry around the world. At present a few more are continuing research in leading areas of technology. He has educational and research cooperation around the globe. 

Professor Tamaki Mitsuno received her Ph.D. degree in human life science, Specialist, at clothing physiology from Graduate school of Kyoritsu Women’s University. Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She is currently a professor, head of the Home Economics course in Faculty of Education and in Graduate School of Medicine, Science and Technology (Doctor's Program). She has developed a clothing pressure measurement device, a hydrostatic pressure-balanced method, using the direct method and has studied the comfort of clothing and the pressure feeling using a ratio scale associated with clothing compression. After clarifying the physiological functions and sensations of humans, she has tried to design and develop clothing that more effectively enhances human physiological functions. Based on these many data, she has developed and demonstrated the effectiveness of more functional clothing, such as support wear that burns body fat and reduces swelling. To date, she has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, she is a Member of the Asian Regional Association for Home Economics, The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan, The Japan Research Association for textile end-uses.

Professor Terry Ye is the Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and by courtesy, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ye is active in both academic research as well as industrial applications in many engineering areas that include IC Designs, VLSI, Internet-of-Things (IOT) Wireless Sensor Devices and Neuromorphic Computing ICs. Dr. Ye received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 1993. Prior to SUSTech, Dr. Ye had been the Professor of CMU-SYSU Joint Institute of Engineering since 2014, the Director of Research and Technology Development of Hong Kong R&D Center for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) since the center’s inception in 2007, as well as the engineering lead of Impinj Inc. since 2003, responsible for Impinj’s UHF RFID chip and system designs. He also serves as the research fellow at the University of Hong Kong. the Chief Scientist of IOT Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as well as the Member of the Consultant Committee of Microsystem Institute, China Academy of Science. Beside his academic activities, Dr. Ye is also keen on industry-academic collaborations. During his tenure at Hong Kong R/D Center, he developed and commercialized China’s first low-power consumption, lightweight RFID reader chip that can be embedded into mobile platforms. He also had held various engineering and consulting roles in China Academy of Science, Impinj Inc, Synopsys Inc., Magma Design Automation Inc., Silicon Architects Inc. and many other Silicon Valley companies.

Prof. Qingyong Zhu is a Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Sun Yat-sen University. He was supported by the New Century Talent of Ministry of Education of China, the provincial training object of the "Thousand, Hundred and Ten" Talent Project of Guangdong Province's colleges and universities. He won the "the Excellent Teacher Award of the National Zhilun Xu Mechanics of the Chinese Mechanics Society". In 1992, he obtained his bachelor degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1997, he received his doctoral degree from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, etc. He finished his post-doctoral research in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a senior researcher at Nanyang Polytechnic University of Singapore.

Dr. Malgorzata Zimniewska is scientist at the Institute of Natural Fibres & Medicinal Plants. Her main area of interest is to develop of natural lignocellulosic fiber processing, technologies and evaluation, to meet the specific needs of different fiber applications including pro-healthy textiles and composites. She is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU), Member of the Textile Institute Council, Member of Advisory Council of BIOEAST Board - Central and Eastern European initiative for knowledge-based Agriculture, Aquaculture and Forestry in the Bioeconomy, She serves as Vice Chair of Quality Control for Horizon Europe, European Innovation Council Pathfinder, 2021 and in H2020-Future and Emerging Technologies 2018 – 2020. Currently, she leads Polish tasks of the project H2020 INN-PRESSME, “Open INNovation ecosystem for sustainable Plant-based nano-enabled biomateRials deploymEnt for packaging, tranSport and conSuMEr goods”, 2020-2025. She worked as an expert of BIOEAST Macro-Regional BIOECONOMY Foresight, Project of Visegrad Group Countries, 2020 – 2021 and is coauthor of Bioeast Foresight Exercise Report: Sustainable Bioeconomies towards 2050.She has led many international, European and national projects. She has authored and co-authored more than 160 scientific articles and 6 patents.

Dr. Sherien Elkateb is a professor in Textile Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt. Sherien’s research focuses on Quality control in textile engineering and  in Industry 4.0 such as applications of IoT “ Internet of Things” and AI “Artificial Intelligence” in textile industry (2004). Her M.Sc. thesis was “ real time fabric defect detection in knitting industry”. In addition, she is a certified “Six Sigma”  as her PhD thesis was implementation of Six Sigma in garment industry (2009). She has many publications in applications of Lean Six Sigma, smart textiles, Artificial Neural Networks, IoT, Online inspection, Online mointoring and image processing in textile industry.

Dr. KyoungOk Kim is an Associate Professor in Department of Advanced Textile and Kansei Engineering, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University and Division of Fashion and Smart textile, Institute for Fiber Engineering (IFES), Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research (ICCER), Shinshu University, Japan. She received her Ph.D. from Shinshu University in Textile Engineering. Her research interests are clothing engineering, textile engineering, and kansei engineering for both apparel and textile fields.

Dr. Zeku Liu received his Ph.D. degree at Department of Materials, The University of Manchester in 2022. He is now working as a Research Associate at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford. His research focuses on silk fibroin-based biomaterials for implantable prostheses, and functional materials for wearable strain, pressure and humidity sensors, as well as flexible and implantable electronics in a humanoid soft bioreactor for tissue engineering. He published several peer-reviewed journal papers in Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Bioactive Materials, Chemical Engineering Journal and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, etc. His research interests include nanomaterials and functionalized materials for the development of advanced composites, functional clothes, biomedical devices, and flexible electronics such as sensors, batteries, solar cells, and generators.

Dr. Xuyuan Tao was born in 1981 at Shanghai in China. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 at the Lille University of Science and Technology in France, in the field of the Automation. Since September in 2011 he works as associate professor at ENSAIT (Textile Engineering Institute in Roubaix, France) in the HCD (Human Centred Design) research group in GEMTEX laboratory.Dr. Xuyuan Tao has extensively involved in the research of multifunctional and intelligent textiles, flexible sensors & actuators, smart textile structures, human-machine interface and virtual textile. His current interests lie the areas of smart textile, wearable textile and machine learning in textile fields.He has participated a number of European Framework collaborative projects and French national funded projects. He has authored and co-authored over 40 scientific publications (SCI), and book chapters. He is also the invited reviewer of several international SCI indexed scientific journals.

Dr. Mohanapriya Venkataraman is a passionate Textile material scientist who holds a Ph.D  and multiple post-graduations in Textile Material Engineering, Fashion Technology and Garment Manufacturing Technology. She is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Material Engineering, Faculty of Textile Engineering in Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. She is also a leading Researcher in Smart Materials, Thermodynamic Analysis, Micro and Nanoporous materials, Heat Transfer, Polymers and Composites in  more than 10 research projects funded by Government agencies and Industry. She has authored about 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, more than 90 conference papers,  more than 25 book chapters and 2 books, and has peer-reviewed  more than 50 articles. She is very passionate about woman empowerment and sustainability. She lives in Prague with her technocrat husband and two boys.

Dr. Long Wu obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. He is currently serving as an associate professor in the School of Apparel and Art Design of Xi’an Poly-technic University. He teaches subjects about Apparel Production Technique, Apparel Machinery, An-thropometric Technology and Application, etc. As the main participant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2013 (61303120), Dr. Wu carried out research work in Shaanxi Union Research Center of University and Enterprise for Ap-parel Intelligent Design and Manufacturing. Over the last several years, he received an outstanding stu-dent papers competition award in TBIS 2011 and an outstanding research papers competition award in TBIS 2014. Also, Dr. Wu was a member of the expert committees of the Garment Industry Association in Shaanxi Province between 2016 and 2019. Funded by China Scholarship Council in 2019, Dr. WU became a visiting scholar in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia from October 2019 to May 2020. In 2021, he was appointed the vice director of the Garment Customi-zation Committee of China National Garment Association (CNGA). 

Dr. Chunhong Zhu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Textile and Kansei Engineering, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Soochow University majored in Textile Materials and Design in 2007 and 2010. After that, she received her Ph.D. from Shinshu University in 2014. From 2014 to 2015, she worked as a R&D in a Japanese company and returned to Shinshu University in 2015.Her research interests include three-dimensional fabrics, functional and smart textiles. She has published more than 50 papers in SCI journals. She also has been granted 2 Japanese patents. As a principal investigator, she hosted (is hosting) 5 projects, including 3 JSPS KAKENHI projects and others from Japanese foundations. She also participated (is participating) several JSPS KAKENHI projects. She is now the editor of Sen’i Gakkaishi (Journal of The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan) and the Japanese Society of Silk Science and Technology

Professor Tamaki Mitsuno received her Ph.D. degree in human life science, Specialist, at clothing physiology from Graduate school of Kyoritsu Women’s University. Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She is currently a professor, head of the Home Economics course in Faculty of Education and in Graduate School of Medicine, Science and Technology (Doctor's Program). She has developed a clothing pressure measurement device, a hydrostatic pressure-balanced method, using the direct method and has studied the comfort of clothing and the pressure feeling using a ratio scale associated with clothing compression. After clarifying the physiological functions and sensations of humans, she has tried to design and develop clothing that more effectively enhances human physiological functions. Based on these many data, she has developed and demonstrated the effectiveness of more functional clothing, such as support wear that burns body fat and reduces swelling. To date, she has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, she is a Member of the Asian Regional Association for Home Economics, The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan, The Japan Research Association for textile end-uses.