Dr. Xiaowei Yue is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor and Grado Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. Dr. Yue's research interests focus on engineering-driven data analytics for intelligent manufacturing. His research has obtained more than 15 best paper awards and two best dissertation awards. Dr. Yue is a recipient of multiple awards, such as IISE Hamed K.

Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award, SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, IISE Manufacturing & Design Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and Grainger Frontiers of Engineering Grant Award from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, etc. Dr. Kunjie Yuan is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, in 2018, China.

She was Ph.D. Visiting Student in Georgia Institute of Technology in USA from 2016 to 2018, following which she worked as Postdoc Fellow in Peking University from 2019 to 2021. Her research interests mainly focus on the design, synthesis, and functional applications of phase change materials. She is now Fellow of the Expert Committee of the Beijing Energy and Environment Society.