Prof. Datong QIN

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Datong QIN received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees from Chongqing University, China, in mechanical engineering in 1982, 1984 and 1993 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at Department of Precision Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, from 1989 to 1991. He joined the State Key Laboratory on Mechanical Transmission (SKLMT) of China, at Chongqing University in 1991 and became associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1995, respectively.  He was deputy director of the SKLMT of China from 1995 to 1997, and director from 1997 to 2008. In 2004 he was appointed by the Ministry of Education of China as the “Changjiang-scholar Distinguished Professor”.

His fields of research include gearing theory, gearing transmission systems, powertrain systems for conventional vehicles and electric vehicles.

He is author of more than three hundred academic papers, which have been published in national and international journals. He is owner of more than 30 patented inventions, and was awarded with two national prizes by the central government of China and with several first-class prizes by the ministry of education or local governments for his research achievements in the areas of mechanical transmission and powertrain systems of vehicles. He was the recipient of the Buckingham Lecture Award at the ASME International Conference on Power Transmission and Gearing held in USA in 2019.

He was member of the Executive Council of IFToMM from 2008 to 2015 and director of Transmission Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, as well as chief editor of Journal of Mechanical Transmissions, respectively. He was Chairman of International Conference on Mechanical Transmission held in China in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was invited to give keynote speech at the International Conferences on Gears held in France.

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