2026 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mingwang Fu
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Biography: Mingwang Fu (MW Fu), PhD, is the Chair Professor of Advanced Manufacturing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is leading the Joint Research Centre for Design & Net-shape Forming of Surface Functional Structures and is an Associate Director of the Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing. He is a fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow. He published over 350 journal papers, 7 monographs (three of which are the first-ever in their respective fields), and one volume in the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Materials, with an H-index of 72. Recently, MW was awarded (1) the SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal (2026) for his outstanding contributions to manufacturing science; (2) the Khan International Award (2026) for his pioneering research and lifelong outstanding contribution to the plasticity/damage/fracture of materials (2026); and (3) LEE HSUN Research Award (2025) for his unique contributions to materials science and engineering.
MW’s research is unique in its breadth, depth, and originality, characterized by a vital mastery of modelling and numerically esoteric mathematics, including the numerical solution of high-order differential equations. Its complexity and difficulty are also highlighted by non-linearities arising from material aspects, including viscoplasticity, large-scale and non-uniform deformation, anisotropy and asymmetry, as well as by the non-linearities of geometries involved in design and manufacturing.