Jialing Yao is a professor and PhD supervisor at Nanjing Forestry University in China. He completed postdoctoral research at the College of Automotive Engineering, Jilin University, China. He was a visiting scholar for one year each at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, and the Department of Automotive Engineering, Clemson University in the United States. He serves as a member of the Automotive Dynamics Committee and Suspension Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China, a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and a doctoral dissertation review expert for the Ministry of Education. He has led numerous vertical and horizontal research projects, including the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has published numerous papers on mechanical and vehicle dynamics and control as the first author or corresponding author. Zhihong Li is a lecturer at Yancheng Institute of Technology in China. He obtained his Master’s and PhD degrees from Nanjing Forestry University, where he was awarded the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. His primary research focuses on vehicle dynamics and control.
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