Jiang Hu is the chairman of the Chinese Museum Association Digital Committee, the chief editor of the third edition of the Encyclopedia of China (Informatics Volume), and the second-level technical research librarian. He previously served as deputy director of the Shanghai Museum and director of the Shanghai History Museum. He had published the Swirls Password (2003),  Cognitive Art: The New Subject in Cognitive Science and other monographs and papers. He was responsible for the concept plan of 2010 Shanghai World EXPO’s China pavilion and the theme pavilions. He participated in the database construction of Chinese Museum Collections, as well as the architectural exhibition and information engineering for dozens of provincial and municipal museums such as the Capital Museum.

Research Interests: World Heritage; History of Creativity in the Development of Culture and Civilization; Interdiscipline of Cognitive Science and Aesthetics; Interaction of Eastern and Western Built Environment and Consciousness Energy; Interpretation and Empowerment of Creative Brain Functions.

Admissions Major: Cognitive Creative Studies

Among the many photographs of the multiple shifts in the geopolitical landscape across Asia and the United States that characterized the last decades of the 20th century, Xiangcheng Liu captured two seminal historical events: the rise of China after its economic reforms and the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev.

For these accomplishments, Xiangcheng Liu was named Photographer of the Year by the Associated Press in 1989 and 1991, and in 1992 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Live News Photography, along with his Moscow colleague, for outstanding coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the Kodak Award of the American Overseas Club. The same year he received the Kodak Award from the Overseas Club of America. Xiangcheng Liu's photographs of China are widely recognized by the Chinese public as capturing a changing era, and are unique in their combination of local sensibilities and independent perspectives.

Xiangcheng Liu was the first Time magazine photojournalist to work in Beijing since 1978, and he went on to serve as chief photographer for the Associated Press in Beijing, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul and Moscow. Liu is also the author of several photographic publications, including China After Mao (Penguin Press, 1983); China, Portrait of a Nation (Tassen Press, 2008); One Nine Eleven: A Hundred Years of Imagery from the Opium Wars to the Warlords' War (Hong Kong University Press, 2011); Shanghai: 1842-2010. Portrait of a Great City (Penguin Press, 2010).In 2015, Liu Xiangcheng founded the Shanghai Photography Art Center.

A distinguished professor of CASE. He is also a global specialist in special equipment and industrial Internet technology. He graduated from Manufacturing Engineering of University of Nebraska Lincoln and got a doctor's degree in 1994. He has more than 30 years of scientific research, production and management experience in the direction of special processing technology. He was the global chief engineer of materials and manufacturing at GE Central Research Institute. A total of 55 authorized international patents and 32 technical papers have been published.

Research fields: Closed-loop control of non-traditional manufacturing process of power equipment, automatic testing, digital manufacturing system, strategy and management system of manufacturing plan, industrial internet technology.

Major of admission: Electronic Science and Technology.

Email: weib20188@outlook.com

A distinguished professor of Center for Adaptive System Engineering (CASE). He received his Ph.D. from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) in 1999. He had worked at Brunel University, London, and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany before joined IMR in 2003. He is director of superalloys division of IMR. His research activities focus on advanced casting technology, microstructure and properties of superalloys. He is also collaborating closely with industrial partners in alloy design and application projects. He is deputy secretary-general of high temperature materials committee, the Chinese Society for Metals and a member of superalloys committee, TMS.

Research fields: Cast superalloy materials and processes for advanced power systems, manufacturing processes of single crystal components, superalloys used in extreme environments

Major of admission: Material Science and Engineering

Email: zhangjian1@shanghaitech.edu.cn