Biografisk notat

Yong Zhao is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is concurrently a Haitian Scholar/professor at Dalian University of Technology in China. Before He took up his current positions, he was Chairman of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of Research in the College of Engineering, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia (2010-2016) and a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1992-2010). He has more than 28 years of experience in CFD research and published several books/chapters and more than 100 papers, many of which are in top journals in CFD and CSD. He and his team have won a Bronze Prize in the IBM Blue Challenge supercomputing competition and a Gold Prize in the Silicon Graphics CrayQuest supercomputing competition. His current research interests include high performance scientific computing, advanced CFD and FSI, biomechanics, renewable energy, turbulence and combustion, fire and explosion modelling. Xiaohui Su is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at Dalian University of Technology and a member of Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society in China. He was a key member of Professor Yong Zhao’s research group during his tenure as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has worked as a research fellow at Tropical Marine Science Institute in Singapore, a hydraulics engineer in DHI-NTU Water and Environment Research Centre and Education Hub in Singapore, and also a research consultant in Atlantis Resources Cooperation Pte Ltd. He has published over 40 papers in CFD and his current research focuses on the design of bionics flapping aircraft using FSI modelling.