Faculty Profile

Chunfa ZHAO received his B.Sc degree in Mechanical Design and Manufacturing from Wuhan University, China in 1995; M.Sc degree in Engineering Machinery and Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China , in 1998 and 2003. He worked as a associate professor(2005-2007), professor(2008- ) for State Key Lab of Rail Transit Vehicle System, Southwest Jiaotong University. He gave lectures on maglev train dynamics in Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, South Korea) as a visiting professor in 2008. He was a visiting scholar of Department of Civil and Enirnomental Engnieering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagain, USA in 2013.
 

He is the winner (8/15, 2005) of frist prize of National Award for Scientific and Technological Progress, China, the ecipient (2012) of Railway Science & Technology Award of Mao Yisheng Education Foundation, the ecipient (2007) of Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation Award for Outstanding Young Teacher in Colleges and Universities (Research Prize) and the winner (2007) of Sichuan Outstanding Youth Science Foundation. His doctoral dissertation (Title: maglev vehicle system dynamics, Advisor: Prof. Wanming ZHAI) earned honorable mention of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China in 2006.
 

His reseaches have been supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China, the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China, the Sichuan Outstanding Youth Science Foundation and several industrial group railway companies and design institutes. His research has been successfully applied to Shanghai High-speed Maglev Line, Changsha Maglev Express, Fenghuang Maglev Express , Qingyuan Maglev Express, and rapid Maglev vehicles and high-speed Maglev vehicles in China.