Prof Ye Lin

Lin Ye currently is a Chair Professor at the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and he was a full professor at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and the Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials Technology of the University of Sydney. He received his BEng degree from Harbin Engineering University in 1982, and MEng in 1984 and PhD in 1987 from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He joined the Xi’an Jiaotong University as a Lecturer in early 1988 and then The University of Sydney in July 1992 after working as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH) 1990-1992 at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His major research interests are in the areas of composites science and technology, smart materials and structures, nano-materials and nano-composites, structural integrity and durability. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) in 2005.