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Keynote Speakers
Our keynote speakers are internationally recognised experts who will share their knowledge and experience drawn from their expertise in vibration and related fields at APVC 2025.
Professor Takahiro Tomioka (Meijo University, Japan)
Biography: He has been a Professor at the Department of Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University since April 2024. After he received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Hokkaido University in 1995, he joined the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) in Tokyo, known as the Shinkansen system's founding institute and one of the world's largest research institutes for railways. He belonged to the "Vehicle Structure Technology Division" of RTRI for almost 20 years until March 2017. He took the position of senior researcher and laboratory head of the Vehicle Noise and Vibration Lab for more than 10 years during his career at RTRI. From April 2017 to March 2024, he served as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Akita Prefectural University. His research interests are elastic vibrations of carbody relating to the riding comfort of railway vehicles, measuring, modeling, and reducing elastic vibrations in mechanical systems, vibration reduction using visco-elastic materials, and vibration and noise suppression using band-gap phenomena observed in periodic structures.
Abstract: Vibrations significantly impact the ride comfort of railway vehicles. Historically, priority has been given to reducing lateral vibrations, and as a result, semi-active and active suspensions are widely used in modern high-speed railways such as Shinkansen trains. In addition to these lateral vibration reduction measures, progress in the weight reduction of carbodies and simplification... Read more
Title: On the elastic vibrations of railway vehicle carbody - Measurement, Modeling, and Reduction measures.
Professor Tim Waters (University of Bristol, UK)
Biography: Tim Waters graduated in mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK, in the late 1980s. On graduation, he spent some years at Airbus where he worked on aerodynamic and elastic modelling of aircraft structures for flutter prediction. He later completed his PhD at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Airbus, on experimental validation of dynamic finite element models. He joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton about 25 years ago, initially as a consulting noise and vibration engineer and soon after he joined the academic staff. He is currently a professor of vibration engineering and head of the ISVR. He has developed a broad range of research interests in both the mitigation and exploitation of structural shock and vibration. Current projects include shock isolation of museum artefacts during transit (in collaboration with The British Museum), the effects of vibration on liquid medicines transported by drone (funded by the Department for Transport), and shock prediction of aircraft during landing (in collaboration with Airbus). He has also spent the last decade developing vibration based techniques for removing unwanted accretions from structures, which is the subject of his talk.
Associate Professor Vladislav Sorokin (The University of Auckland, NZ)
Biography: Vladislav Sorokin is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Head of the Waves and Dynamics Research Group, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Dr. Sorokin obtained his PhD and Doctor of Science degrees from the Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering Russian Academy of Science in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Held a prestigious post-doctoral position at the Technical University of Denmark funded by the FP7 Marie Curie Actions – COFUND, during 2014-2016. In 2017 he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, the University of Auckland.
In 2021, Vladislav was invited to act as an official Visiting Academic Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and in 2024 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Le Mans, France. Published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and registered 2 patents. This includes 50 publications in highly reputable Q1 journals, such as invited contributions to Nature and Philosophical Transactions Series A as a lead and corresponding author.
Abstract: In mechanical context, a system is typically referred to as parametrically excited when at least one of its parameters varies either with time or a spatial coordinate. Such systems have been exploited in a wide range of applications from vibration suppression to energy harvesting and response amplification. First, several unusual phenomena arising in systems with time varying parameters will be briefly.... Read more