Committees

International Advisory Committee

The following have been invited to serve.

  • Chair: Professor Thomas Gries, Institute for Textile Technology, RWTH, Aachen, Germany
  • Professor Philippe Boisse, INSA-Lyon, France
  • Professor Abdel-Fattah Seyam, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
  • Professor Bijoy Behera, IIT Delhi, India
  • Professor Francois Boussu, ENSAIT, Roubaix, France
  • Professor Subhash Anand, University of Bolton, UK
  • Professor George Stylios, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  • Professor Geneviève Dion, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
  • Dr Niall Finn, CSIRO, Geelong, Australia
  • Professor Bhuvenesh Goswami, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
  • Professor Bohong Gu, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
  • Professor Andrew Walker, University of Manchester, UK
  • Dr Amir Islam, Bally Ribbon Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Dr Nandan Khokar, Biteam AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Professor Frank Ko, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Professor Rui Wang, Tianjin Polytechnic University, China
  • Professor Stepan Lomov, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Mr Alan Prichard, Consultant, formerly Boeing Company, Seattle, USA
  • Professor Stephen Russell, University of Leeds, UK
  • Professor Masayuki Takater, Shinshu University, Japan
  • Professor Xiaoming Tao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
  • Professor Weilin Xu, Wuhan Textile University, China
  • Professor Kadir Bilisic, Erciyes University, Turkey

Organising and Programme Committee

Chair: Dr Xiaogang Chen, TexEng Software Ltd and School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Mr Brian McCarthy, TexEng Software Ltd and School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Richard Kennon, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Anura Fernando, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Hugh Gong, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Prof Prasad Potluri, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Mr Haoxian Zeng, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Ms Yajie Gao, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Prof William Sampson, Head of School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK,  ex-officio
Co-chairs of conference, ex-officio