ProfJC Ji

• Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering (2025, Clarivate).
• Consistently listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists for career-long and single-year impact since 2020.
• One of Australia’s top Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists (Research.com).
• Associate Editor (or Editor) for two JCR Q1 journals and two JCR Q2 journals:

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Q1), Acta Mechanica Sinica (Q1), Journal of Vibration and Control (Q2), International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (Q2).

Former Associate Editor for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies (2021–2025); Guest Editor for Measurement (Q1) and Sensors (Q2).

• Deputy Chair, National Committee for Applied Mechanics (NCAM), Engineers Australia (since Jan 2025).
• Theme Research Director for Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, and Mechanical Engineering Asset Management. 
• Detailed assessor for ARC and NSW SRN grants; external reviewer for Hong Kong RGC, Belgium FNRS, New Zealand MBIE, Canada Mitacs, Singapore President’s Technology Award. 
• Selection Panel Member for DSTG NAVIGATE Program.
• Published 190+ journal papers (140 in JCR Q1 journals, including 4 invited reviews), 4 edited books, 5 book chapters, and 30 conference papers.

An active researcher, as demonstrated by numerous publications and research projects across diverse areas, including:

Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control: Wind turbine dynamics, rotor-bearing dynamics, gearbox dynamics, nonlinear dynamics of mechanical systems, structural dynamics of flexible structures, nonlinear dynamics of active magnetic bearings, chatter in cold rolling processes, bio-inspired and origami-based quasi-zero stiffness vibration isolation, vibration isolation and absorption, nonlinear energy sinks, metamaterials and metastructure based vibration control, and vibration utilization and mitigation of mining equipment.

Machine Condition Monitoring and Mechanical Engineering Asset Management: Fault diagnostics and prognostics, remaining useful (service) life predictions, digital twin-based modelling, physics-assisted and data-driven based modelling, monitoring of gas metal arc welding, estimation of the state of X for lithium-ion batteries, health monitoring for lithium-ion battery based energy storage systems, and integration of machine learning with engineering systems for decision-making.

Renewable Energy and Sustainability: Vibration-based energy harvesting systems, wind turbine technology, net zero emissions, lifecycle monitoring of battery based storage systems, lithium-ion battery circular economy (reuse, repurposing and recycling), air-conditioning and ventilation systems, monitoring of CO2 emissions and exhaust shaft monitoring, energy saving techniques and evaluation.

Mechanical and Vehicle Systems: Vehicle system dynamics, hybrid vehicle powertrains and suspension systems, hybrid and electric vehicles, fluid-structure interaction, dynamical systems in engineering applications, dynamics and vibrations of machine tools, numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation, fatigue analysis.

Robotic and Multi-Agent Systems:  Coordinate control of multi-agent systems and robotic systems, region-reaching control, task-space bipartite tracking control, group-bipartite consensus control, collaborative evolutionary planning, vibration control of robotic arms, monitoring of mechanical reducers in industrial robots.

Ecological Systems: Dynamics and control of predator-prey systems, harvesting strategies of predator-prey systems, bifurcation and sliding dynamics of Filippov-based ecological systems.

JC’s interdisciplinary knowledge and expertise have contributed to advancing both fundamental and applied research.