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I. Plenary Speakers: (The sequence is in alpabetic order of the surname) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic of the speech: Green Polymers and Textiles - Materials, Marketing and Credibility, the US Perspective
 Professor Ian R. Hardin is the Georgia Power Company Professor of Textile Science at the University of Georgia. He has spent over 39 years teaching fiber, textile and polymer chemistry at Auburn University and the University of Georgia. During that time he has been actively engaged in research, with over ninety scientific and technical papers published in refereed journals, several book chapters, and more than seventy presentations of scientific research at national or international meetings. He has received extramural funding of more than $7 million for his research efforts from industry and state and federal government sources. Dr. Hardin is considered an expert in the use of enzymes as substitutes for conventional chemical processing, and in the development of enzymes for unique treatments of fibers and fabrics. He is also very active in the environmental chemistry of textiles and is frequently invited to conferences to speak on the work in his labs regarding the application of enzymes to reduce effluent loads and aquatic toxicity. Dr. Hardin was the organizer and lead of the working group for the Second International Conference on Biotechnology and Textiles, which was held in April of 2002, and for the fall meeting of the Fiber Society in 2009. He is a Guest Professor at Donghua University.
Dr. Hardin was Head of the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors at the University of Georgia from 1994 through the summer of 2004. Under his direction, the department enrollment increased from 165 majors to a total of 465. Research funding increased dramatically to over $1 million a year. The contacts of the department with industry in Georgia and nationwide have produced funded research in all aspects of textile chemistry, environmental analysis, treatment and remediation, development of new chemical finishes, testing and instrumental analytical development, and the fundamentals of cotton quality.
Dr. Hardin is currently the Co-Director of the Academy of the Environment at the University of Georgia, and is Vice President of the Fiber Society, and international organization for the advancement of polymer and fiber research.
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Topic of the speech: Benchmarking functionality of historical cold weather clothing
Professor George Havenith is presently working at Loughborough University in the UK, where he has a Chair in Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics. He studied Mathematical Biology and Human Physiology at Utrecht University, after which he joined the TNO-Human Factors Institute in the Netherlands. There he worked for 14 years in the area of Human Thermal Physiology and Clothing Science, at the end heading the Thermal Physiology group at the institute. In this period he also worked for one year at Pennsylvania State University, and gained his PhD in Medical Physiology from Nijmegen University, studying physiological responses to heat stress, and producing a simulation model that allowed the impact of individual characteristics of people on their heat stress response to be studied.
At Loughborough University where he now leads the Environmental Ergonomics Research Group, his research covers two main topic areas, one being Human Thermal Physiology/Environmental Ergonomics, and the other being heat and mass (vapour) transfer through clothing. Though these are quite distinct subject areas in terms of research methods and knowledge background, they interact in most research application projects, and are then also supplemented with a third area: clothing ergonomics.
His special contribution to these fields is the multidisciplinary integration of physiology, physics and ergonomics. His work spans experimental studies, to the development of theoretical frameworks to explain observations, and subsequently to the final application of the knowledge in the field. He produced a number of key papers in these areas, with several of his research methods and clothing heat transfer equations now incorporated in ISO and EN standards.
Many of his research projects and publications involve partners from abroad. Recent research projects include European Union framework 5 (project leader) and 7 grants on protective clothing (THERMPROTECT and PROSPIE). Further he has an active collaboration with partners in Japan, China and the USA. He has published widely (over 170 publications in scientific books, journals and conference proceedings as well as over 100 consultancy research reports). He is an editor of the ‘European Journal of Applied Physiology’, international editor for the’ Journal of the Human-Environment System’, and on the editorial board of ‘Ergonomics’ and 'Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology’.
He advises a number of renowned international companies on thermal physiology and clothing science.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic of the speech: Technology Road Map for Japanese Textile Industry
Professor Kanji Kajiwara joined Shinshu University as a Special Project Professor for the High-Function Fiber Nanotechnology Innovation Center and is a Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Textile Science at Kyoto Institute of Technology. He had started his carrier as a polymer physicist, speci
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Spider Silk-A Model for the Next Generation of Environmentally Friendly Super Fibers
Professor Frank K. Ko is Director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory and Canada Research Chair Professor of Advanced Fibrous Materials in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Textile Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a SAMPE Fellow and recipient of the American Society for Composites award and the Fiber Society Award for Distinguished Achievement, Professor Ko has co-authored three books and contributed to 34 book chapters. He has presented and published over 450 papers in the engineering design and analysis of fibrous structures for medical, industrial and advanced composite applications. He is serving on the editorial board of several Journals including the area editor of nanofiber technology for the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics. He served on the Roadmap team for the Aerospace Industry Association and as a member of the advisory committee on soldier protection for the Army Board of Sciences of the National Research Council. He is a guest professor at the Dnnghua University and the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and currently serving as a member of the advisory committee for CANMET of Natural Resource Canada. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Green textile resource and ecology needs and human health
Academician Yao Mu is a renowned expert in textile materials. In 1930, he was born in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Textile Engineering in Northwest University of Technology in 1952 and stayed in the university to become a lecturer. In 2001, he was elected by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Currently, he is the honorary president, professor, doctoral advisor and director of academic committee in Xi’an Polytechnic University. He is also the Director and member of the Textile and Clothing Disciplinary Higher Educational Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education.
Prof. Yao was the President of Xi’an Polytechnic University (formerly known as Institute of Northwest Textile Engineering), a member of the Second and Third Review Panel of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, Director of the China Textile Engineering Society, Honorary President of Shaanxi Provincial Textile Engineering Society, Honorary President of China Association for Standardization Fiber Subcommittee and Vice-chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Science Association.
Prof. Yao has always played a leading role in research and education. The book on "Textile Materials" edited by him has become a classic work in textile and clothing field in China Mainland. He was actively engaged in research of clothing comfort and made outstanding original contributions in fabric physical testing, physical testing of clothing microclimate environment and human psychological testing. He has led the research in the design theory and engineering technology for fabricating wool-like synthetic fibers, and made a number of breakthroughs in multi-differential and multi-composite deformation processing technology. He designed new generation of fabrics for military uniform and obtained the State First Prize Science and Technology Progress Award in 2001. Prof. Yao studied and developed a range of textile testing instruments and standards, and developed more than 20 state and/or military standards for textiles. He has published more than 180 papers and 8 research monographs and/or translated books. He has trained 18 PhD graduates and 43 MSc graduates.
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II.Keynote speakers: (The sequensce is in alpabetic order of the surname) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: On the Growth Mechanism of Capillaries in Porous Silk Fibroin Films
Professor Bai Lun is presently working at Shinshu in Japan, where he is teaching and doing research on the Bioengineering Course, Division of Applied Biology in Faculty of Textile Science and Technology. Before present position he was professor of Soochow University in China. He studied Silk Science and Engineering at Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Science and Technology,which was then combined to Soochow University. After graduation, he joined this university, and began to teach there till now. During this period, he worked in a couple of universities in Japan as visiting researcher, and gained his PhD in Agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University Japan in 1987. He also worked as an associate professor and then a full professor at the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University Japan from 1990 to 1993
In his second research area, he led several national research projects and developed a type of man-made skin using fibroin, which is now widely used in clinical treatment for burn rehabilitation. Now he is leading a sub-project of the “
Professor Yi-qi Yang received his PhD from ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr Ke-Qin Zhang is a professor at National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, Soochow University. He received his Bachelor’s Degree and Ph. D. in Physics from Nanjing University in 1994 and 2000 respectively. Afterwhich, he completed postdoctoral training at Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart, Germany from 2000 to 2001. He has worked as Research Fellow (2002-2004), Lee Kuan Yew Fellow (2005-2008) and Senior Research Fellow (2008-2009) at National University of Singapore prior to joining Soochow University. His research interests include soft matter physics, molecular biophysics, biomaterials and new functional materials. He was awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005. He has published over 15 papers in esteemed journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir etc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Progress on hybrid functional materials for biomedical application
Professor Mei-fang Zhu, a winner of National Outstanding Youth Foundation 2009, got her Ph.D. in 1999 on Material Science jointly studied in Donghua University (DHU), Shanghai, China and Dresden University of Technology, Germany, M.SC., and B.Sc. on Chemical Fiber from China Textile University, in 1988 and 1986, respectively. As a full professor of DHU since 1998, her research fields are focused on nanocomposite materials, biological materials and nanofibers. More than 150 papers published and 80 patents accredited and pending as well as more than 40 presentations as invited and keynote lectures. A series of honors and awards, including China Youth Science and Technology Award 1998; The winner of the Second National Class Awards for Progress in Science and Technology issued by State Council of China 2006, and Ho Leung Ho Lee Science Technology Innovation Award 2009 etc have been conferred to her. Besides, she was the dean of College of Mater.Sci. and Eng. 2001-2005, the director of State Key Lab for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials 2004-2006, vice president of DHU 2005-2009.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Effects of Zeta potential and fiber diameter on the coupled heat and liquid moisture transfer in porous fibrous materials
Qing-Yong Zhu is a professor at School of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in Mechanics from Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Chinese Academy of sciences, respectively. He has worked as Research Associate (2000-2002) and Post-doctor Fellow (2003) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer in Biomaterials and Computer Simulation. He is the member of New Century Excellent Talents in Universities. He has published over 30 papers in esteemed journals.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Workshop keynote speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title of the speech:Overview of the U.S. Approach to Standards and Conformance
As ANSI's Director of International Development, Ms. Elise M. Owen is actively working to communicate and promote U.S. positions for standards and conformance (testing, inspection, certification and other activities to evaluate whether standards have been met) in China, India and other key markets around the globe. Ms. Owen is particularly focused on ensuring that standards facilitate trade, and on promoting U.S. best practice internationally. Ms. Owen led the successful development of Standards Portal (www.stanardsportal.org) and other key initiatives to support these objectives.
Previously Ms. Owen was employed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. As an International Trade Specialist, she worked to facilitate U.S. exports and to resolve individual and systemic bilateral concerns on foreign regulations and policies that hindered U.S. market access in China as well as other key markets. In this capacity, Ms. Owen worked to ensure that U.S. industry perspectives and positions were represented in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (TBT), participating in the development of U.S. policy document for the TBT Committee and working to address TBT-related compliance and enforcement issues.
Prior to this, Ms. Owen worked as School Director with American Educational Services, Inc., establishing and operating an English language school in Dalian, China where she developed curriculum and taught English as a Second Language (ESL) classes to Chinese students. Ms. Owen is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, graduating with honors and certified by the Defense Language Institute and Foreign Language Center, where she served in the United States Army. She holds an MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, graduating with honors.
ANSI is a not-for-profit membership organization that brings together organizations from both the private and public sectors dedicated to furthering U.S. and international voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessments. ANSI accredits national standards developing organizations and approves American National Standards. It represents the U.S. in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and other international and regional organizations.
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