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University of Michigan, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Liang Qi is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He studied Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in China and received his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He earned his master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2007 and his doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as an assistant project scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2015. His research focuses on the mechanical and chemical properties of materials through theoretical and computational methods, including first-principles calculations, atomistic simulations, multiscale modeling, and machine learning, with an emphasis on defects and phase transformation behaviors. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2019 and the 2021 TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award.
University of Alberta, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Xiaolei Wang is currently a Canada Research Chair holder and a Full Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. He is leading his research team focusing on the rational design, development and application of novel advanced materials for energy-related technologies including lithium and other alkaline-ion batteries, lithium-metal and lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, aqueous rechargeable batteries, battery recycling/upcycling/upgrading technologies, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalytic systems. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 2013), M.Sc. at Tianjin University (TJU, 2007), and B.Sc. at Dalian University of Technology (DUT, 2004). Prof. Wang has published over 160 research papers in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and was recipient of many awards including Petro-Canada Young Investigator Award (2018), Concordia University Research Chair-Young Scholar (2019), and Mid-Career Research Award in Engineering at the UofA. He is associate editors/young associate editors of several international journals including and has been invited as lead guest editors and guest editors for many special journal issues. Prof. Wang has organized, chaired or co-chaired many national and international conferences/conference symposia on energy and materials, and serves as referees for over 80 international journals, and 7 funding agencies.