Changqing Chen, Professor and Head, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China. His focus of study is multifunctional materials and structures, including piezoelectric smart materials and structures, cellular materials and structures, mechanical computing with metamaterials, and topological mechanics. He has published over 150 peer reviewed journal papers in J Mech Phys Solids, Nat Commun, Science Adv, etc.

Kyu Jin Cho is a Professor and the Director of the Soft Robotics Research Center and Biorobotics Lab at Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT and his B.S and M.S. from Seoul National University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory before joining SNU. He has been exploring novel soft bio-inspired robot designs, including a water jumping robot, a flytrap-inspired robot, origami-inspired robots, and a soft wearable robot. The work on the water jumping robot was published in SCIENCE and covered by over 300 news media worldwide. He has received the 2014 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award for his fundamental contributions to soft robotics and biologically inspired robot design. He has also received the 2014 ASME Compliant Mechanism Award, 2013 IROS Best Video Award, 2015 KROS Hakbo ART Award. He received the SNU academic award in 2021. He has served as a General Chair of RoboSoft 2019, and he is currently the IEEE RAS VP of the Technical Activities Board.

Tomoko Fuse is an independent origami artist, born in Niigata Prefecture Japan. She published first book on origami in 1981. Since then, she has published over 100 books in more than seven languages including English, Italian, and Chinese, etc. Her major work focuses on the large-scale origami installations. Her works has been exhibited in various events extensively throughout Germany, Israel, Australia, and Japan.

Hanqing Jiang is a Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Westlake University in China. Before joining Westlake University in June 2021, he was a faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University from 2006 to 2021. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2001, majoring in Solid Mechanics. His current research interests include the origami and kirigami based mechanical metamaterials and robotics, mechanics of lithium-metal batteries, and unconventional electronics. He has published 5 book chapters and more than 150 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was elected to an ASME Fellow in 2016. He is a member of the executive committee of the Materials Division of ASME and is the President of the Society of Engineering Science in 2022. Selected honors include an NSF CAREER Award (2009), ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal (2021), etc.

Jinsong Leng is a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He is a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Foreign Member of Academia Europaean, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the dean of School of Future Technology, Director of the Center for Smart Materials and Structures (CSMS), and Director of International Center for Applied Mechanics at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. His research fields include smart materials and structures, 4D printing and space deployable structures, etc. He currently serves as Vice President of the International Committee on Composite Materials (ICCM), Vice President of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials (CSCM), Vice President of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials (IJSNM). He was elected as Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IMMM) and Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Professor Guoxing Lu is President of International Society of Impact Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Cambridge. After one-year post-doctoral research at Cambridge, he worked as a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and presently is University Distinguished Professor and Director of Impact Engineering Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are energy absorption of structures and materials, mechanical properties of materials at high strain rates, impact mechanics and most recently origami structures. He has over 290 publications in international journals and two monographs co-authored with Professor Tongxi (TX) Yu on the topic of plastic analysis and energy absorption of structures and materials. He has ~14400 citations with an H-index of 64 (GoogleScholar). He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Impact Engineering and a member of editorial board of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Thin-Walled Structures, Composites B, Scientific Reports and others. He is Associate Dean Research, School of Engineering at Swinburne.

Mitani is a professor of Information and Systems at University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2004. He has been present post since April 2015. His research interests center on computer graphics, in particular geometric modeling techniques and their application to origami design. The origami artworks created by him have features that are three-dimensional shapes with smooth curved surfaces. His main books are “3D Origami Art” and “Curved Origami Design”. In 2010, through an exchange with ISSEY MIYAKE, he contributed to the launch of the new 132.5 fashion brand. He also cooperated in the design of origami used in the movies "Shin Godzilla (2016)" and "Death Note Light up the NEW world (2016)". His unique origami has been well received around the world and he had received invitations to hold workshops and exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and many other countries. His work had inspired the design of the trophy for the Player of the Match winner of each game at the Rugby World Cup 2019. His major awards are “Microsoft Research Japan Informatics Research Award, 2012” and “The 2nd Japan Society for Graphic Science Award, 2007”. He was appointed as a Japan Cultural Envoy from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2019. He visited eight Asian countries in November and December 2019 as the envoy.

Yue-Sheng Wang is a Professor at Department of Mechanics in Tianjin University (TJU). He received his B.S. in Applied Mechanics from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1988, and Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1993. Then he worked with Harbin University of Civil Engineering and Architecture as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 1993 to 1995. He held faculty position at Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) before he joined TJU in 2018. His current research interests include wave propagation and control, especially in acoustic and elastic waves in complex media and structures such as phononic crystals/metamaterials/metasurfaces, fluid saturated porous media, composites with inclusions and cracks, layered structures with unilateral contact interfaces, layered smart material structures, etc. Other research interests include dynamic instability of frictional sliding, nonlinear ultrasonic NDT&E of damage for metal materials and adhesive joints, fracture and contact mechanics of functionally graded materials. He has Over 400 SCI journal papers and 2 book Chapters. He received the 2022 Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award. He is now the associate editor-in-chief of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, and the editorial board member of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and International Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Jinkyu Yang is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. He was formerly a Professor in Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University (2005) and BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST (2000). His research has been directed towards developing novel engineered materials and structures, e.g., metamaterials, phononic crystals, and nonconventional composites, for aerospace, biomedical and mechanical applications. His research has been featured in news media, such as Reuters, NSF News, and U.S. Public Broadcasting Service, and he is currently an Associate Fellow in AIAA and an Associate Editor for AIAA’s Journal of Aircraft.

Zhong You is currently a Professor of Engineering Science at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Magdalen College. Zhong obtained his BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and MS from Dalian University of Technology, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He serves on the editorial board of some renowned journals, including ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (Associate Editor), Scientific Report and IMechE Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science Part C. Zhong’s research is concerned with the design and realisation of novel deployable and origami structures, a type of unconventional structures capable of large shape changes. He has published many ground-breaking research papers in prestigious journals including SCIENCE and PNAS. His work was selected for the Science Day Exhibition at Buckingham Palace in 2007, organised by the Royal Society. SCIENCE introduced Zhong’s research work in their “profile” section. In addition, he developed a flow diversion stent to treat cerebral aneurysms. Oxford Endovascular, a university spin-off company, was founded to commercialise this technology.