Dr. Xiaolin Chen is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Research Laboratory at the Washington State University, Vancouver campus. She received her BS in engineering mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MS in mechanical design and theory from the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and her PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include computational methods in solid mechanics, finite element analysis, boundary element analysis, reduced order modeling for dynamic systems, multiphysics phenomena and coupled-field problems, inverse problems, and regularization techniques. Dr. Yijun Liu is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He obtained his BS and MS in aerospace engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (China), and his PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the faculty, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Center of Nondestructive Evaluation of Iowa State University, and worked at Ford Motor Company as a CAE analyst. Dr. Liu's interests are in computational mechanics, finite element method, boundary element method, and fast multipole methods for modeling problems with composite materials, fracture, fatigue, structural dynamics, and acoustics.
