Professor Jihong Yu is the Director of the International Center of Future Science and works at the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry at Jilin University in China.

Professor Yu received her B.S. (1989), M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from Jilin University, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1996-1997 and Tohoku University in Japan during 1997-1998. She has been a Professor in the Chemistry Department at Jilin University since 1999.

Professor Ovid J. L. Tzeng is a distinguished research Fellow and an Academician of Academia Sinica. He was the Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan (UST), the Minister of Education, the Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan, and the Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs. He is an outstanding researcher in cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics and an experienced administrator in academic institutions.

Professor Srolovitz is the author of 500 papers on topics in materials theory and simulations ranging from defects (surfaces, grain boundaries, dislocations, point defects), microstructure evolution (grain growth, dislocations, stress effects, phase transformations), deformation (nanomaterials, dislocation motion, creep), and film growth (sputtering, evaporation, CVD) and has an h-index of 92 with more than 30,000 literature citations.