Speakers

Researcher. Pei Huang is a professor-level senior engineer and obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Manufacturing from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1997. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief and CEO of e-works Digital Enterprise Network. Meanwhile, he acts as a member of the National Expert Committee on Intelligent Manufacturing, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Alliance of Intelligent Manufacturing, and Foreign Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. He also holds the positions of Vice Chairman of the Intelligent Manufacturing Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Vice President of Hubei Mechanical Engineering Society, Vice President of Hubei Association for Artificial Intelligence, and Deputy Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Institute under the Consortium of Intelligent Manufacturing Societies of China Association for Science and Technology. With 32 years of profound experience in intelligent manufacturing, Dr. Huang has provided consulting services for hundreds of domestic and foreign manufacturing enterprises in digital transformation, informatization and intelligent manufacturing planning, and led a number of key industrial projects. He has been awarded the Second Class Prize of National Science and Technology Progress, Second Class Prize of Hubei Science and Technology Progress, First Class Prize of Wuhan Science and Technology Progress, as well as honors like Outstanding IT Youth of Wuhan, National Excellent Award for Youth Scientific and Technological Innovation, and Wuhan New Long March Assault Hand. He is a leading authority and pioneer in China's manufacturing digitalization and intelligent upgrading.

Professor Lei Nie, Doctoral Supervisor and current Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Hubei University of Technology, earned his Doctor of Engineering degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in June 2007 and joined Hubei University of Technology after finishing his postdoctoral research at the university’s Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Materials Science and Engineering in 2010; focusing long-term on micro/nano manufacturing and measurement with intensive research on chip packaging and medical testing instrument development, he has presided over more than 20 projects including the Youth and General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Hubei Provincial International Science and Technology Cooperation Projects and Hubei Provincial Program for Science and Technology Innovation Talents, published over 80 papers in domestic and international academic journals, and won numerous honors such as the First Prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of Hubei Provincial Teaching Achievement Award and the Second Prize of Higher Education Achievement Award of China Instrument and Control Society.