Prof. Wei Bian

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WeiBian, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology. She received her Bachelor's degree in 2004 and Ph.D. degree in 2009, both from Harbin Institute of Technology. From 2010 to 2012, she conducted postdoctoral research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Professor Chen Xiao-Jun. Her primary research focuses on optimization theory and algorithms. She has published numerous academic papers in prestigious journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

She has been honored with the National Young Talent Award and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Currently, she serves as an editorial board member for the SCI journal Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, standing committee member of the Operations Research Society of China, standing committee member of the Heilongjiang Mathematical Society, and council member of the Mathematical Programming Branch and Mathematics & Intelligence Branch of the Operations Research Society of China.

Prof. Chengxun Yuan

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Chengxun Yuan, Ph.D. in Science, is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice Dean, and Chair of the Department of Applied Physics at the School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology. He serves as an editorial board member of the SCI journal Physica Scripta. He is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, a committee member of the Environmental Modeling and Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Simulation, a committee member of the Radio Wave Propagation Committee of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Heilongjiang Physical Society, a member of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and a lifetime member of the Chinese Physical Society.

His main research interests include plasma physics and applied technologies, radio wave propagation, and plasma photonic crystals. He has led over 20 national and provincial key research projects, including the National Key R&D Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Key R&D Program. He has published over 200 academic papers, with more than 170 indexed by SCI, authored one English monograph and two Chinese monographs, contributed to two textbooks, applied for over 30 national invention patents with more than 10 granted. Professor Yuan has delivered over a hundred keynote, invited, and oral presentations at international academic conferences.