Biography: Promoted to Lecturer in 1996, Associate Professor in 2004, and Full Professor and PhD Supervisor in 2010, she was appointed as a permanent researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi'an Jiaotong University that same year. From 2006 to 2007, she served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University, Japan, conducting research on gas discharge plasma diagnostics. Her distinguished academic career includes becoming a Senior Member of IEEE in 2014, being appointed to the Energy Equipment Expert Committee of the China Energy Association in 2015, joining the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) in 2019, and assuming roles as Academic Committee Member and Academic Leader at Xi'an Jiaotong University's School of Instrument Science and Engineering in 2023. She actively contributes as a peer reviewer for multiple SCI-indexed journals including Sensors & Actuators A/B, IEEE Sensors Journal, Plasma Science and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, and the Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University (Natural Science Edition). Her honors encompass dual First Prizes in Teaching Achievement from Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Province (2007), a National Teaching Achievement Second Prize (2009), the Xi'an Jiaotong University "Wang Kuancheng" Education Award (2010), and mentoring master's and doctoral students awarded National Scholarships in 2012 and 2014 respectively. She also contributed to the team receiving the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology First Prize in 2013.

Biography: Xiao Huapan, an Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor, and Postdoctoral Supervisor at the School of Advanced Manufacturing, Sun Yat-sen University, is a recipient of China’s National Talent Program. Specializing in precision/ultra-precision machining and inspection technologies for brittle optoelectronic materials (glass, crystals, ceramics, etc.), he has extensive research expertise in the formation mechanisms, predictive theories, detection methods, and suppression techniques of surface and subsurface damage during machining. He has led 10 research projects, including the National Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Program, National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), and provincial/municipal grants from Guangdong and Shenzhen, while contributing to 6 collaborative projects such as the National Key R&D Program and Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund. With over 60 academic publications, he has authored 35 SCI-indexed papers in journals including International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Precision Engineering, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and others. He holds 17 national invention patents (granted/applied) and has received prestigious honors such as the Young Researcher Award from the Asia-Pacific Conference of the International Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN, awarded to approximately 8 researchers biennially across Asia), the Chinese Government Scholarship for Overseas Studies, Outstanding Graduate Student of Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Provincial Outstanding Master's Thesis Award.