Prof. Xiangpeng Xie
Vice Dean of the School of IoT
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Biography:Xiangpeng Xie, Professor, doctoral supervisor, National Excellent Youth, Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Youth, ESI Global Highly Cited Scholar (2020-2023), IEEE/CAAI/CAA Senior Member, serving as Vice Dean of the School of IoT at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. At present, I am mainly engaged in research on power Internet of Things technology, artificial intelligence interpretability, fuzzy system modeling and control, etc. Won the second prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, the first prize of China Automation Society Natural Science Award, the first prize of China Simulation Society Natural Science Award, the award for China's 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers, the first prize of the 18th "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition National Competition, and the special prize of Jiangsu Division (first supervisor), "Top 10 Outstanding Graduate Supervisors" of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the second prize of China Automation Society Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award and other scientific research awards. Serving as an editorial board member for five SCI international journals, including IEEE TII, IEEE TFS, and IEEE TCYB.

Prof. Kai Ma
Vice Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering
Yanshan University, China
Biography: Professor Ma Kai is the Vice Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Yanshan University, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Neural Information Processing of the Ministry of Education. His research interests focus on the smart grids and integrated energy systems. In recent years, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and one academic monograph, and he has been authorized over 30 invention patents and participated in the formulation of a national standard. He has hosted 16 national and provincial-level research projects, including the National Excellent Youth Science Foundation and the Regional Joint Key Projects, and he was selected as a top young talent and a "Three-Three-Three" talent in Hebei Province, and awarded the Hebei Youth Science and Technology Nomination Award and the China Invention Association Invention and Entrepreneurship Award. Simultaneously, he is serving as senior members of IEEE, CAA, and CICC, and members of a council of Hebei Association of Automation and Hebei Association of Youth Science and Technology.

Prof. Yanzheng Zhu
Vice Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Automation
Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Biography: Yanzheng Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in January 2016. From 2013 to 2015, he was a joint Ph.D. student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. From 2019 to 2022, he was a Full Professor with the College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He is currently the Vice Dean and a Full Professor with the College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
He was the winner of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2022, the Major Basic Research of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province in 2024, the Science Fund for Distinguished Youth of Fujian Province in 2020. He has published 2 research monographs and more than 90 research papers in international referred journals. His research interests include nondeterministic switched systems, fault diagnosis and tolerant control, and their applications.
Prof. Zhu is also an Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters, Journal of The Franklin Institute, and was a Guest Editor of European Journal of Control.

Prof. Hongjing Liang
Highly Cited Researchers in Clarivate Analytics
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Biography: Hongjing Liang, professor of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Doctoral supervisor, Highly Cited Researchers in Clarivate Analytics, approved by the National Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project, "Tianfu Emei Plan" Young Scientific and Technological Talents Project and Sichuan Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Science Foundation. He has been awarded the title of provincial excellent master's thesis advisor for three consecutive years. At present, his main research direction are intelligent adaptive control of multiagent systems, collective intelligence, etc. He has presided 3 national projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, and participated in 2 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects. He has published a monograph in English. He is a member of the editorial board of international SCI journals IEEE SMCM, IEEE SMCS, FNL and IJFS. He has published (including accepted papers) more than 100 academic papers in authoritative journals, and the relevant achievements have been cited and positively evaluated by many experts and scholars at home and abroad. One paper was selected for the China's 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers, one paper was selected for the Best Paper Award of Acta Automatica Sinica, and one conference paper was selected for the Best Paper Award in Theory of ICCSS 2017. He was awarded the IEEE SMC Beijing Capital Region Chapte Young Author Prize in 2020.

Prof. Qiang Chen
Director of the Institute of Data-Driven Control and Learning Systems
Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Biography: Qiang Chen received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2012. Since 2012, He has been with the College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), Hangzhou, China. He is currently a Full Professor and the director of the institute of data-driven control and learning systems in ZJUT. He has presided over 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects including National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2022, and 1 Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. He has published over 50 academic papers in IEEE Transactions and international journals, and has been authorized more than 40 invention patents, 12 of which were transferred. His research interests include sliding mode control and adaptive learning control with applications to motion control systems.

Prof. Keke Huang
Recipient of National High-Level Talent Special Support Programs
Central South University, China
Biography: Keke Huang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Central South University, serving as the Associate Dean of the School of Automation. He is a recipient of National High-Level Talent Special Support Programs (10,000 Talents Program) for Young Talents, a core member of the national “Huang Dania-style” teaching team and a Distinguished Young Scholar of Hunan Province. He is listed among the top 2% of scientists globally for his long-term research on modeling, optimization decision-making, and coordinated control in the process industry in 2023 and 2024. He has published over 80 high-quality research papers in IEEE Transactions or IFAC journals (including 8 ESI hot papers/highly cited papers), and has been granted over 30 national invention patents. He has led 14 research projects, including key research and development programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, industrial internet innovation engineering projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023, the First Prize of Hunan Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2024, the Excellent Young Scientist Award of the Non-Ferrous Metals Society of China, the First Prize of Science and Technology of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry of China, and the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Association of Automation. Additionally, he serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Automation Branch of the Non-Ferrous Metals Society of China, a committee member of the Process Control Committee and the Fault Diagnosis and Safety Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation.

Prof. Yulong Huang
National Youth Talents
Harbin Engineering University, China
Biography: Yulong Huang, Professor, PhD Supervisor, National Youth Talents. He has long been devoted to intelligent information fusion theory and intelligent navigation application research. He has hosted more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial projects, including the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National key research and development program, and the key projects of the Frontier Center of the Ministry of Education. He has published more than 60 top IEEE transactions papers as the first author or corresponding author. He has been selected into the list of the world's top 2% scientists, The Youth Talent Support Program of the China Association for Science and Technology , the Xiangjiang Scholars Program, and the upward and good youth of Heilongjiang Province, and won the first prize of the Heilongjiang Natural Science Award, the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Society of Automation, the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award, the IEEE Barry Carlton Award, the IEEE Barry Carlton Award Honorable Mention, and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Society of Automation. He is currently the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and IEEE Sensors Journal.

Prof. Long Jin
Recipient of National-Level Youth Talent Program
Lanzhou University, China
Biography: Long Jin is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Lanzhou University, as well as a recipient of National-Level Youth Talent Program. He has served as the principal investigator for four projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one sub-project under the National Key Research and Development Program, and many major and distinguished youth projects supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province.
Since 2020, he has been recognized annually as an Elsevier "Highly Cited Chinese Researcher." He has received prestigious awards including the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Wu Wenjun AI Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the Second Prize in Natural Science of Gansu Province, and the Second Prize in Natural Science from the Chinese Association of Automation.
Several of his supervised students have had their dissertations selected for National Academic Society Outstanding Dissertation Awards and provincial awards for exceptional doctoral and master's dissertations.
Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for several renowned SCI journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV), and Neural Networks.
His research interests encompass neural networks, robotics, distributed systems, and intelligent computing.

Assoc. Prof. Hongtian Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Biography:Hongtian Chen received his Ph.D. degree in College of Automation Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2019. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada, from 2019 to 2023. Dr. Chen joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2023 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Automation. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, data mining and analytics, machine learning, and cooperative control; and their applications in high-speed trains, new energy systems, industrial processes, and autonomous systems. Dr. Chen was a recipient of the Grand Prize of Innovation Award of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China in 2019, the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award of Jiangsu Province in 2020, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2023.

Assoc. Prof. Mingming Zhang
Senior Member, IEEE
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Biography: Mingming Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Auckland, Auck land, New Zealand, in 2015. Since 2015, he has been a Research Fellow and/or a Visiting Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland. In 2018, he was with the Southern University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor. He has authored more than 80 academic articles and one book. He also holds more than 30 patents. His research interests include medical and rehabilitation robotics, haptics control, human–robot physical interaction, and brain–computer interaction. Prof. Zhang was an Invited Reviewer for many high-quality international journals, such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, IEEE TRANS ACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS. He has also served as the lead Guest Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.