Speakers

Professor Sisi Zlatanova is a SHARP Professor at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture and Head of the Geospatial Research, Innovation and Development (GRID) lab. She has obtained her PhD at Graz University of Technology, Austria and spent 17 years of her research carrier at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research interests are in 3D modelling of the Built environment with focus on integration of BIM and GIS, 3D Indoor modelling, 3D representations, 3D data management and visualisation. She is actively involved in the activities of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and several Working Groups of ISO. She is leading the developments of the OGC standard IndoorGML. She is the President of Technical Commission IV ‘Spatial Information Science’ of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) for the period 2016-2022. She is author and co-author of more than 500 scientific publications and 23 books. With a team of excellent researchers, she is collaborating with industry and academia towards maturing the concepts of spatially enabled Digital Twins.

Professor Ang Liu is a Professor of Engineering Design at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2012. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Manager of the Viterbi iPodia Program at USC from 2013 to 2016. He joined UNSW as a Senior Lecturer in 2016 and became an Associate Professor in 2020. Dr. Liu's research interests include innovative design thinking, design theory and methodology, intelligent manufacturing, digital twin, and engineering education. Dr. Liu is an Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), JSPS Invitational Fellow, Fellow of the PLuS Alliance, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He was Co-Chair of the 10th International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD2016) and General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD2019). He received multiple awards such as the Park's Best Journal Paper Award, UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, one of the 250 top researchers by the Australian's Research Magzine 2021, etc. He serves in the editorial boards of multiple prestigious journals such as Digital Twin, Scientific Reports, Production & Manufacturing Research, Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Machines, Green Manufacturing Open, etc. He is Chair of the 2nd Digital Twin International Conference and the 33rd CIRP Design Conference.

Professor Guofu Ding is the Deputy Dean for Research and Development of School of Mechanical Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Advanced Digital Design and Manufacturing and Digital Design and Manufacturing Research Centre of Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He is leading a Digital Design and Manufacturing Research Group and is employed as a professor since 2005. He worked one year as an academic visitor in Brunel University, UK, which is support by DVFs from RAE, UK. He led many projects from NSFC, CSC, MIIT, MOST, CHINA.

Professor Sheng-feng Qin is Chair in digital design and manufacturing in the school of Design, Northumbria University, UK. He was 2019 Newton Prize recipient based on his collaborative research work with Professor Cuixia Ma at the Institute of Software of Chinese Academy of Sciences on Transforming Service Design and Big Data Technologies into Sustainable Urbanisation. At Northumbria University, Professor Qin has established the Smart Design Lab (SDL), leading design research into future smart products, services and interconnected systems design by applying cutting edge smart technologies and smart multi-disciplinary design research methods/tools. He is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Rapid manufacturing.

Professor Zhong Fan is a Professor in Computer Science and Academic Director of the £15M SEND (Smart Energy Network Demonstrator) at Keele University. Prior to joining Keele, he was Chief Research Fellow at Toshiba Research Europe and led research on IoT, smart grid, cyber security, data analytics, and 5G communications. He has managed and delivered more than 30 projects funded by UKRI, EU, and industry. His current research interests are IoT, digital twins, and applications of AI to smart energy systems. He has published over 170 journal and conference articles and filed 35 patents. Zhong has a H-index of 39.

Dr Uwe Jasnoch joined Hexagon in 2007, serving as the Director EMEA for Government and Transportation in the Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division. Before, he served as global Vice President for Business Development as well as Director Pre-Sales for APAC at the Geospatial Division. Prior to this position, he was serving as EMEA Industry Leader for Government, Transportation and Defense, and Sales Manager Government and Defense for DACH at Hexagon.

In 2001, he founded the company GIStec. Dr Jasnoch was the managing director of the company. Before, Dr Uwe Jasnoch had been heading the Geographic Information Systems department of Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics from 1992 to 2003.

Between 1998 and 2005 he served as reviewer for the European Commission and between 2003 and 2007 as a curator for the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics’