Dr. Shanben Chen (S B Chen)   is a Distinguished professor with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) ,and  served as the Special Professor, Cheung Kong Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China & Li Ka Shing Foundation,  from 2000 to present, he is also director of the Intelligentized Robotic Welding Technology Laboratory of SJTU. 

Prof. Chen is a senior member of the IEEE; Chair of the Robotics & Automation Committee of the Chinese Welding Society (CWS); and a standing member of the Board of Directors, CWS. 

Prof. YuMing Zhang has been with the University of Kentucky since 1991 conducting research in the area of innovation, monitoring, and control of welding processes where he published over 200 journal publications and received 12 US patents. He is a Fellow of the American Welding Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers and five of his graduate students won International WeldingInstitute’s Henry Granjon Prize. 

Dr. Zhili Feng leads the Materials Joining Team, and is a Distinguished R&D Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he manages  and conducts both fundamental and applied R&D and pursuing technological innovations for diverse interdisciplinary subjects related to materials joining and materials manufacturing processes. He is a fellow of American Welding Society and International Institute of Welding.