Advances and Challenges in Advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems / Springer Aerospace Technology (PDF)

Zishun Liu is Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) and Executive Director of International Center for Applied Mechanics. Dr. Liu received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Applied Mechanics and Solid Mechanics from XJTU and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Solid Mechanics from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He served on the faculty of XJTU between 1986 and 1994, as Senior Scientist and Capability Group Manager at Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore (IHPC), Singapore, and Associate Professor of NUS at various points from 1999 to 2012. As Visiting Scientist, he worked in Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany, and University of Glasgow, UK, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. His research interests are in the areas of Mechanics of Soft Materials, Computational Solid Mechanics & Biomechanics, Nanomechanics, and Vibro-Acoustic. He has published more than 220 SCI referred research papers. Now he also holds Adjunct Professorships in NUS.
Dr. Liu is Active Member of various leadership roles in editorial boards and professional communities as follows: Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM) and Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering (IJCMSE). He serves international communities as General Committee Member of Association of Asia-Pacific Computational Mechanics and General Committee Member of International Association for Computational Mechanics. He is also Honorary President of Singapore Association of Computational Mechanics.
Renfu Li received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Since 2009, he has been Professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research interests include spacecraft dynamics and control, aircraft flight dynamics and control, flight vehicle design and engineering, UAV technology, cooperative control of multi-agent systems,