| Prof. Yongjun PanChongqing University, ChinaProf. Yongjun Pan is a Professor and PhD Supervisor at the School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Automotive Engineering. He serves as an Editorial Board Member of Multibody System Dynamics, Young Editorial Board Member of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, Vice Chair of the Multibody Dynamics and Control Technical Committee of CSTAM, and Senior Member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, SAE China, and the Chinese Association of Automation. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UPM-INSIA, Spain, in 2016 under Prof. Javier García de Jalón; prior to that, he had five years of automotive R&D experience. In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), McGill University, Canada. His research focuses on multibody system dynamics and control for electric vehicles, robots and human biomechanics, as well as AI-enabled dynamics and performance prediction/optimization. He has led six national-level projects, published over 80 papers—nearly 50 as first/corresponding author, including 1 hot paper and 4 highly cited papers—and holds 12 granted invention patents and 9 software copyrights. He has delivered oral presentations at international conferences and received conference paper awards. Speech title: Multi-Source Signal-Driven Fault Diagnosis and Early Safety Warning for Battery Packs |