Dr. Tianliang Hu is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University. He received his BS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 and 2009 at Shandong University. He was a visiting Ph. D student in IMS Lab, University of California, Davis, from Feb. 2007 to Feb. 2008 supported by CSC. He began his career in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University from Jan. 2009. In Jan. 2020 Dr. Hu was awarded as Qilu Young Scholar in Shandong University.

He now serves as the Vice Director of Shandong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing and Control System, the Director of Shandong Univerisity - Suzhou EMD Tech. Joint Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing and Control System.

Dr. Hu’s research interests include intelligent manufacturing, digital twin, CNC technology, and robotics. He has published more than 40 papers. He also obtained 4 patents of invention. He received many funding supports from national, provincial research projects and from industry as well.

Dr. Hu is very active in the standardization work of manufacturing industry. He is an expert of ISO and IEC. He serves as the Vice Secretary of SAC/TC159/SC1 and also the working group convener of SAC/TC22/IWG4. He was/is involved in the developments of many international standards and national standards related to manufacturing industry.