Prof. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang
Fellow of CAE, Fellow of ASME, Fellow of SME

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Prof. Wenjun (Chris) Zhang received a Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1994. He is currently a full professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
He has published over 450 technical articles in peer-refereed journals or magazines and over 230 technical articles in peer-refereed conference proceedings, including those reputed journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Soft Robotics, IEEE SMC: System, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Nature Communications Physics, Cell Device, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. He held over 20 patents, among them 3 are US patents. His H-index (Google) is 81, and his H-index (Scopus) is 68. His current research interests include robotics, mechatronics, resilience engineering, design & control/management, ontology & AI. Professor Zhang has trained over 53 PhD students and over 107 MS (thesis) students and over 28 Master of Engineering students. Many of his PhD graduates and post-Doctor Fellows are appointed as faculty members in the US, UK, Canada, Hong Kong (China), Mainland China, including Fellow of Canadian Academia of Engineering, Fellow of ASME, Fellow of IEEE. He received Distinguished Graduating Supervisor Award by the University of Saskatchewan in 2012. He is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering owing to his outstanding work on resilience engineering, Fellow of ASME owing to his outstanding work on the theory of machine and mechanism, Fellow of SME owing to his outstanding work on resilient manufacturing systems and electronics packaging, Fellow of AAIA for his contribution to ontology and AI. He is currently leading a multi-institution grant of NSERC to train graduate students for creative design and entrepreneurship in medical devices and systems. He is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of Engineering Design, Associate Editor of International Journal of System Sciences, Robotica, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Enterprise Information Systems.