| Prof. Weihua GuiCentral South University, China Bio:Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor, and Ph.D. Supervisor. He graduated from Central South University (formerly Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) in 1975 and received his master's degree in 1981 . He was a visiting scholar at the University of Duisburg, Germany, from 1986 to 1988. He is currently the Director of the Control Engineering Research Institute at Central South University. His long-term research focuses on process control theory and engineering applications. He created theories and methods for modeling, control, and optimization of complex non-ferrous metallurgical processes centered on intelligent integration, making significant contributions to the rapid development of China's process industry. |
| Prof. Jie LuUniversity of Technology Sydney, Australia Bio:Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in computational intelligence, particularly known for her work in concept drift, fuzzy transfer learning, recommender systems, and data-driven decision support systems. She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, ACS Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. She is currently the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at UTS and the Associate Dean (Research Excellence) of the Faculty of Engineering and IT. She has won the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award (2019, 2022) and was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2023. |
| Prof. Xiuling LiuHebei University, China Bio:Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, currently serving as a member of the Party Standing Committee and Vice President of Hebei University. She was selected as a National Leading Talent in Science and Technology Innovation. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary medical-engineering studies, achieving outstanding results in brain-computer intelligence, intelligent diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, and wearable devices. She has undertaken national-level projects such as the National Key R&D Program and major projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has won three Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards and was awarded the National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter. |
| Prof. Dong YueNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Bio:Professor and current Director of the Academic Committee of NJUPT, and Dean of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality Advanced Technology. He received his Ph.D. from South China University of Technology in 1995. He is an IEEE Fellow (2021), a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (2022), and a Fellow of CAA and CAAI. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018. His long-term research focuses on networked control, optimization, and their applications in smart grids. He has presided over more than 20 projects, including Major and Key Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. |
| Prof. Xinping GuanShanghai Jiao Tong University, China Bio:Chair Professor at the School of Automation and Sensing, and Director of the Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education. He is an IEEE Fellow, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a national talent of the "New Century Talents Project". He has been engaged in research on networked systems for nearly 30 years. He has won two Second Prizes of the National Natural Science Award. He has published more than 400 papers in prestigious journals (including 298 in IEEE Transactions and Automatica), with over 28,000 citations on Google Scholar. He currently serves as the Standing Director of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). |
| Prof. Yi YangZhejiang University, China Bio:IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow, and Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. He is the Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Zhejiang University, and the Director of the Microsoft-MOE Key Laboratory of Visual Perception. He has long been engaged in fundamental theories of artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary applications, achieving breakthrough results in multiple directions. His papers have been cited over 90,000 times on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 145. He has been consecutively selected as a Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Researcher for the past 6 years. |
| Prof. Hesheng WangShanghai Jiao Tong University, China Bio:Ph.D., Tang Junyuan Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Dean of the Paris Elite Institute (PJI). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. He serves as the Vice Director of the Hybrid Intelligence Committee of CAA. In recent years, he has published over 300 SCI/EI-indexed papers, including more than 100 papers in IEEE Transactions (such as TRO, TPAMI), and holds over 50 authorized invention patents. He has won the Shanghai Rising-Star Program and the Shanghai Shuguang Program. |
| Prof. Zhonghua MiaoShanghai University, China Bio:Grade-2 Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, and Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program. He is a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, and currently serves as the Vice Dean of the School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation at Shanghai University. He leads the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's Key Innovation Team. His research focuses on intelligent equipment and robotic technology (including visual perception, trajectory planning, decision control, and multi-robot coordination). He has achieved a series of results in intelligent agricultural machinery, agricultural robots, and autonomous operation control of underwater robots. |
| Prof. Aiguo WuHarbin Institute of Technology, China Bio:Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund (Category A) and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He was selected for the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Program. His research focuses on the parameter introduction method for control system design, fully actuated system control, and spacecraft control. He has won the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award and the Second Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award (ranked 1st). He also received the CAA Young Scientist Award and the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. |
| Prof. Ying BiZhengzhou University, China Bio:Ph.D., Discipline-specific Distinguished Professor, and selected for the National Young Talent Program. She received her Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, supervised by Prof. Mengjie Zhang (Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand) and Prof. Bing Xue. Her research interests include genetic programming, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and computer vision. She has published the world's first English monograph on genetic programming-based image classification. She has published 55 academic papers in international journals and conferences, including 25 SCI journal articles. |
