Management Team

President

Yingtao Jiang ORCID

In his role as the President of Tech Science Press, Jiang supervises all operational and business administration matters, sets investment, budget and fund generation plans, devises global community outreach programs, conducts TSP’s efforts in extending its network of conference locations to expand its worldwide roster, and closely supervises strategy implementation.

Yingtao Jiang received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2011 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to the rank of full professor at the same department in 2013. He served as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for three years, and subsequently became associate dean of Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering in 2015. As the President of Tech Science Press, Dr. Jiang comes with 20+ years of experiences in teaching, academic research and management. 

Publishing Director

Yi Yang

Yi Yang is the Publishing Director of Tech Science Press. Dr. Yang assumed his role as the Publishing Director of TSP in 2021 to expand its global reach, and advise and lead the publishing activities of TSP. He oversees the Editorial Services team, and manages the development, review, and promotion of TSP publications across the Communications and Marketing Cluster.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology (2002) from the Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan, China) and a master’s degree in Developmental and Educational Psychology (2005) from the Huazhong Normal University (Wuhan, China). He completed his PhD (2015) in Management Science and Engineering from Southeast University (Nanjing, China). In 2005, he joined in the School of Business in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and was promoted to the associate professor in 2013. From 2010 to 2011, as a visiting scholar, he delved into research work at the California State University, San Bernadino. He joined in Tech Science Press as publishing manager in July 2017. From June 2019 to present, he also held the role of director for the China office of Tech Science Press. 

Director of Publication Development

John Chen

John Chen supervises TSP’s strategic planning and execution of publication projects to ensure high-quality content development. He is also involved in all strategic projects including the journals’ development and logistics, and working cross-organizationally and collaboratively with all liaisons to develop large scale initiatives that make progress to increase the impact.

With an academic background in Biology and Biochemistry in Bishops’s University, Canada, John spent several years honing his scientific acumen and managerial skills as an academic project coordinator in Montreal, Canada, from 2011 to 2015 before joining Tech Science Press. At Tech Science Press, John held various roles including production, editorial, and management positions before serving as the Director of Publication Development. During this tenure, John has acquired a profound understanding of the industry’s intricate workings, shortcomings and merits. He currently specializes in strategic and operational designs, product development and management, journal acquisitions, and publisher/partner relations. As such, John has assumed the responsibility for further exploring the manifold dimensions of the field to bring about its far-reaching potentials on solid ethical tenets and foundation.

Director of Integrity and Engagement

Ruochen Xian

Ruochen Xian is the Director of Integrity and Engagement at Tech Science Press, where she plays a crucial role in upholding and implementing policies that ensure integrity throughout the publishing process. She is responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, and actively represents the organization in industry initiatives related to publishing ethics and integrity.

Ruochen also manages a portfolio of key publisher accounts, negotiating content distribution agreements and establishing long-term, strategic partnerships. She collaborates with scholarly and trade partners across various content types, including journals, ebooks, magazines, videos, and archival materials.

Graduated from Fudan University with a major in Macromolecule Material and Engineering in 2012, Ruochen initially worked as a corporate solutions consultant in Shanghai. She later pursued a Master of Science degree in Social and Educational Research at the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2016. Her time in the UK provided her with valuable experience as a data specialist in both STEM fields and social sciences.

Since joining Tech Science Press in 2022, Ruochen has been actively involved in international association activities within the publishing industry. She is a committed member of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee and also serves on the ALPSP Policy (Copyright) Committee, contributing her expertise to key industry initiatives.

Director of Information Technology

Dongling Lin

Dongling Lin is the Director of IT at Tech Science Press. He manages IT projects, including developing and maintaining the submission system and publication services. He also devotes to the facilitation of IT-based editing and liaising tasks.

Lin graduated from Jiangsu Ocean University with a major in software engineering (2012). He led the networked construction of a stand-alone cost budget software in a listed company, and accomplished an annual output value of more than 100 million CNY within three years, with nearly 10 million data volume levels. Lin also worked as a versatile core leader in Tuniu Corporation (NASDAQ: TOUR) and developed the R&D department to the highest professional level. In two years, he acquired favorable praise and trust by leading his team to reconstruct the functional modules of various travel modes and to focus on a significant refactoring experience of the airline business. Before joining TSP, Lin was affiliated as a system architect in a real estate company, leading and supervising all aspects related to research and development.

Publisher

Jiali(Julie) Suo

Julie Suo serves as a publisher at Tech Science Press, where her primary responsibilities include participating in the decision-making process for the development plans of journals and formulating publishing strategies aimed at enhancing the influence of various journals. She effectively manages and supervises all publishing projects within the company, ensuring that the publication processes run smoothly and meet the highest standards of quality.

Julie Suo graduated from Shanxi University in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in English and went on to obtain a master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Beijing Wuzi University in 2017. Prior to her role at Tech Science Press, she worked at MDPl as a Managing Editor for seven years. 

Senior Managing Editor

Chen(Odelia) Xu

Odelia Xu, Senior Managing Editor of Tech Science Press, oversees the daily management of the editorial department and is directly involved in all information construction projects. She also assists in the promotion and development of all academic journals. Xu also oversees the journals in mechanics and engineering sciences.

Odelia Xu graduated from Lanzhou University in Atmospheric Sciences and continued her MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Birmingham, UK in 2016. Before joining Tech Science Press, she worked as Section Managing Editor in MDPI. With her experience in the academic publishing industry, she has acquired expertise in academic management and a vision to open science and publishing, positioning her as a leading expert in publication science. Odelia Xu joined TSP in April 2019 as a Managing Editor for CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. In 2020, she was the Publishing Manager in populating and managing the IT content projects; developing metrics to assess and improve research publication impact of all TSP journals.

Non-executive Director

Paul Evans

Dr Paul Evans has been working in the publishing industry since 1986 after graduating Oxford University and a spell in computing. He was at Reed Elsevier, now RELX, for nearly 25 years rising from editorial and academic publishing roots to become Senior Vice President in external relations at Elsevier’s Amsterdam headquarters. For two years in that time he was a university lecturer in Scotland leading publishing studies courses. He then joined Sage Publishing as managing director for the Asia Pacific region which doubled its business in 7 years under his tenure. Then in China where he became a government publishing adviser he was director of Nature’s business and team there in Shanghai plus other responsibilities with Springer Nature in Beijing. Returning to the UK in the pandemic he did consulting, non executive director work and was Director of Partnerships for Charlesworth. He now has responsibilities in education in the UK and continues Non Executive Director functions as for Tech Science Press.

Advisory Board

Sven Fund, Managing Director of Reviewer Credits, GERMANY

Sven Fund is the Managing Director of Reviewer Credits, the peer review expert network. Prior job include leadership positions at Bertelsmann, SpringerNature, De Gruyter, ResearchGate, and Wiley. He holds a degree in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Political Science from Muenster University. Through his company fullstopp, Sven invests in startups in publishing and beyond. He lectures in Library and Information Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. He frequently speaks at international conferences around the globe.

Shaofan Li ORCID, University of California-Berkeley, USA

Professor Shaofan Li is currently a full professor of applied and computational mechanics at the University of California-Berkeley.

Dr. Li joined the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley in 2000. Dr. Shaofan Li is the recipient of several awards, including The IACM Fellow Award (International Association of Computational Mechanics) 2018; Distinguished ICCES Fellow Award (International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences) [2014]; The ICACM Computational Mechanics Award (International Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics) 2013; The USACM Fellow Award (The United States Association of Computational Mechanics) 2013; A. Richard Newton Research Breakthrough Award 2008, and National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2003; Dr. Li has published more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and he is the author and co-author of two research monographs/graduate textbooks. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Li has more than 7500 citations and an h-index 42.

Dr. Daniel Serin ORCID, Institute Sainte-Catherine, radiotherapy service, Avignon, FRANCE

Dr. Serin is a field oncologist and has been practicing for more than 30 years at the Sainte Catherine Institute (ISC) in Avignon, and devoted into medical activity to treating breast cancer. Dr. Serin trained in Radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy and medical oncology (Faculty of Medicine of Lyon). Dr. Serin has chaired the SFSPM French society of senology and breast pathology. He has also chaired the SFPO French society of psycho-oncology and was in charge of mission by the inter-ministerial mission which preceded the creation of the INCa National Cancer Institute to define the needs for qualified professionals in psycho-oncology in France. Dr. Serin is a member of ASTRO (1984) ASCO (1986) ESMO (1996) and created the Cours supérieur franco-maghrebin de senolgie in 2002 which is held every year in Morocco. He made Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2004 for his care activities and commitments in the League against Cancer and in the collegial reflection on which led to the first Cancer Plan.

Esteemed Founder

Honorary President

Late Dr. Satya N. Atluri ORCID

Dr. Satya Atluri was the founder of Tech Science Press in 1997. He founded the journals Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (2000); Computers, Materials, & Continua (2004); Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics (2004); and Advances in Computational Mechanics (2008), all of which are published by Tech Science Press. All these journals are in the frontier disciplines of engineering and the sciences, and especially at the interfaces of engineering and the sciences.

Dr. Atluri was a world-renowned Indian-American engineer, educator, researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and computational sciences, who was the Presidential Chair & University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. Since 1966, he made fundamental contributions to the development of finite element methods, boundary element methods, Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods, Fragile Points Methods (FPM), Local Variational Iteration Methods, for general problems of engineering, solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, flexoelectricity, ferromagnetics, gradient and nonlocal theories, nonlinear dynamics, shell theories, micromechanics of materials, structural integrity and damage tolerance, Orbital mechanics, Astrodynamics, etc.

Dr. Atluri was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for contributions to computational methods for fracture mechanics and analysis of aerospace structures. He was also elected to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 1997, the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, the World Academy of Sciences in 2003, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Stephen Timoshenko Institute) in 2008, and the oldest academy in the modern world, the Academy of Athens in 2013. Dr. Satya Atluri received the Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian honor in the Republic of India, in the category of Science and Technology, from the president of India in 2013.