Jianguo LIN
- Professor in Materials Technologies, Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Jianguo Lin, FREng, FIMechE, FIMMM, FISME, CEng, PhD, is a Professor in Materials Technologies, Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1991.
He is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and joined PolyU from Imperial College London in September 2024. Professor Lin established a Metal Forming and Materials Modelling Group at Imperial in 2008, which has 4 research centres and 2 joint research Labs fully funded by industry, and, has an international reputation in developing new metal forming techniques, multiscale materials and process modelling theories.
His research expertise is in Metal forming, Materials and Process Modelling. He has published over 300 research papers in refereed international journals and over 20 patents, most of which have been taken by industry. He is a Founder Director of three Imperial spin-off companies (Impression Technologies Ltd, CurvEx Technology Ltd and Multi-X Solutions Ltd), which are resulted from his patented techniques.
Topic
The urgent needs of innovation on traditional manufacturing technologies and commercialisation