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Bin Du Dr. Bin Du is the distinguished expert of the 10th Thousand TalentsProgram. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University and a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He has been involved in the development and application of eco-friendly materials and new energy technologies. In 2002, he joined Plug Power Inc, a NASDAQ listed and the largest fuel cells company in America where he held a number of positions including Senior Researcher, Director of Excellence R&D Center, Manager of Asia Region and Director of Global Sourcing and gained over 20 years’ experience in technology and business management. Previously, he was the Chief Scientist/Project Manager for several R&D projects funded by U.S. Department of Energy/Department of Defense. He has participated in several technology transfer and development projects, bringing over his knowledge of the cell fuels and related core technologies. In his position as a project manager, he completed the transfer of hybrid battery management technology to CITIC Guo’an, which successfully served as a provider of hybrid power cells for the bus fleet for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. He holds 7 U.S. patents and has published 68 papers including over 10 keynote and invited speeches. He was invited to write green energy and fuel cell chapters for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability and Materials for the Hydrogen Economy. He was an independent expert for the review committee of American National Standards Institute, member of the industrial advisory committee of the new energy research center under the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managing director for the New York State New Energy Associ- ation. He is invited to be a longtime visiting research fellow for three universities in the United States. In 2013, Dr. Du was selected as a distinguished expert under the Thousand TalentsProgram. In 2014, he established the Nanjing Gates High-Tech Environmental Co., Ltd. In 2015, he was on the list of Jiangsu Industry Professor Program (Nanjing University). He was selected in Jiangsu Province Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent Project, Jiangsu Province Six Talent Peaks Project, Nanjing High-level Entrepreneurial Talent Program in 2016. In 2017, he was appointed as an expert reviewer for the talent inviting project under the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and a distinguished expert under the Think Tank for Wulanchabu Municipal Government. Zhihui Duan Mr. Duan is currently Chief Engineer, Hybrid Electric Vehicles at Chery Automotive. Previously, Mr. Duan served as Technical Director of Hybrid Electric Powertrains at Changan New Energy Automobile Inc. China, where he was involved with developing full hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. He led a program to develop new generation HEVs and works on power system architecture design, product development, powertrain control, and energy management. He was also involved with developing an Atkinson cycle engine, which improves fuel efficient significantly. Mr. Duan also previously worked with the Sustainable Mobility Technologies at Ford Motor Co., where he was involved in developing new generation hybrid transaxles. He led the effort
to fix the transaxle problems that Escape Hybrid vehicles had in the field and to improve quality and reliability. As a result, he was awarded Ford’s Current Model Quality Award: Best in Ford Transmission Warranty Performance. Mr. Duan received his B.S. Aerospace Engineering from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics, a M.S. Aerospace Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, and his M.S. Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland. Michael Durack Michael Durack is currently Technology Director and Managing Director of Ultimate Transmissions. He was educated as an Architect but quickly moved into the role of Contractor and construction systems and building materials innovator. Much of his working life has been spent in South East Asia delivering large scale low and medium cost housing projects and the machinery and systems associated with the delivery of these projects. Towards the beginning of this century, he specialized in the development of building materials manufacturing equipment. This led to specific involvement in the development of more energy efficient variable speed industrial drives. He used the experience associated with the design and manufacture of industrial drives to develop a type of mechanical CVT that has direct application to the automotive industry. Michael has published a large number of technical papers on the subject of traction drives and was awarded the best paper at the 2014 FISITA conference in Maastricht. Engineering at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, where he also serves as Head of the Ain Shams University Sound & Vibration Laboratory. Dr. Elnady is President of the Acoustical Society of Egypt. An expert in Duct Acoustics, he is one of the developers of SIDLAB Software for the simulation of sound propagation in duct systems and serves industry as a consultant in Europe, USA, Egypt, and the Gulf region in the field of muffler design, noise control, and environmental acoustics modeling. Dr. Elnady received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University and his Ph.D. in Technical Acoustics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. John Elter Dr. John F. Elter is currently President of Sustainable Systems, LLC, and consults in the area of strategy, technology, and product devel- opment for sustainable systems. He is also an NSF independent reviewer for small business proposals in energy generation and robotic systems. He has recently published the chapter on PEM Fuel Cells for the Encyclopedia of Sustainability published by Springer. He is also a recognized as a certified Foreign Expert. For seven years he was Vice President of System Architecture at Plug Power, where he was responsible for fuel cell system architecture and technology development for PEM fuel cell systems. As the Chief Technology Officer, he established Centers of Excellence in hydrogen generation, fuel cell stacks, controls and fundamentals. He was co-chair of a Gordon Conference on Fuel Cells and has lectured on fuel cell systems in the US, Europe, and Asia. After Tamer Elnady Tamer Elnady, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor of
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