On June 28, 2024 the 3rd ISBE International Online Lecture was successfully held via ZOOM platform. The lecture invited Professor Hao Liu, a professor of mechanical engineering at Chiba University as well as the director of Center for Aerial Intelligent Vehicles (CAIV), to share his research experience with the topic of Biomechanics and Biomimetics in Bioinspired Flight Systems. The lecture was chaired by Professor Zhihui Qian from Jilin University. Prof. Liu is a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) and a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). He is selected among Top Leading Scientists in the fields of engineering & technology (research.com) and Top 2% Scientist (Stanford University). During the Lecture, Prof. Liu first highlighted the state of the art of biomechanics in bioinspired flight systems. An overview was given of the main technical aspects comprising the leading-edge vortices, vortices during wing rotation, wingbody interaction, flexible wingand wing hinge-induced wingflow interaction, wing-wake interactions, and aeroacoustics from a combined theoretical, computational, and experimental perspective.

The lecture had attracted nearly 140 scholars and graduates from multiple universities and research institutions around the world, including Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States, Queen Mary University of London in the UK, University of Vienna in Austria, University of Mpumalanga in South Africa, Chiba University in Japan, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Dalian University of Technology, etc. The participants had a wide discussion at the lecture.

As one of the series of ISBE activities, the International Online Lecture aims to continually build good academic exchange platforms for members together with the ISBE Online Academic Forum on "Frontiers in Bionic Engineering".