Committees
Conference General Chairs
Prof. Chenguang (Charlie) Yang
Fellow of IEEE, IET, IMechE, BCS, AAIA & HEA
University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Chenguang (Charlie) Yang holds the Chair in Robotics with Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK. He was a Professor of Robotics with University of the West of England, Bristol, leading Robot Teleoperation Group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Aisa-Pacific AI Association (AAIA), and British Computer Society (BCS). He is the corresponding Co-Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Collaborative Automation for Flexible Manufacturing (CAFM), an Editor-in-Chief of Robot Learning, a Specialty Chief Editor for Computational Intelligence in Robotics of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics: Systems. He was the President of Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK (CACSUK), and have served as general chair of the 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC) and the 25th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT). He was awarded EPSRC Innovation Fellowship (2018-21) and EU FP-7 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship grant (2011-13). As the lead author, he received the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award (2012) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award (2022).
Prof. Chun-Yi Su
IEEE Senior Member
Concordia University, Canada
Dr. Su received his B.E. degree in control engineering from Shaanxi Institute of Mechanical Engineering (now Xi'an University of Technology) in 1982, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from South China University of Technology, China, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. His Ph.D. study was jointly directed at Hong Kong Polytechnic (now The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Hong Kong. After long stint at the University of Victoria (1991-1998, Canada), he joined the Concordia University (Canada) in 1998, where he is currently Concordia Research Chair in Control and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has also held several short-time visiting positions in Japan, Singapore, China and New Zealand. Dr. Su's research covers control theory and its applications to various mechanical systems. His current main research interests are in control techniques for smart material based actuators, robotic and mechatronic systems, vehicle suspension and vibration, and nonlinear control systems. He is the author or co-author of over 180 publications, which have appeared in journals, as book chapters and in conference proceedings. Dr. Su is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and Journal of Control Theory & Applications. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Mechatronics and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications. He has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences in the area of control and automation. He has served as committee chairs of a number of these conferences, including the Program Chair of IEEE CCA07.
Prof. Moquan Shen
IEEE Member
Nanjing Tech University, China
Moquan Shen is a professor and doctoral advisor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing University of Technology. He has also served as a postdoctoral fellow at Southeast University, visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University in South Korea, and the University of Adelaide in Australia. In 2015, he was selected as one of the cultivation objects for the "Six Talents Peak" program in Jiangsu Province. He has successfully led 8 projects at provincial and ministerial levels including the National Natural Science Foundation, New Teachers Fund for doctoral programs by the Ministry of Education, and Natural Science Fund of Jiangsu Province. Over the past five years, he has published more than 40 papers in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems; among them are 3 ESI hot papers and 8 ESI highly cited papers. Currently serving as an Associate Editor for four international journals including Journal of Systems and Control Engineering Editorial Office. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for over 60 domestic and foreign journals such as IEEE TAC and Automatica. And he also acts as a corresponding reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation.
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Prof. Lijuan Li
Nanjing Tech University, China
Lijuan Li, professor, PhD supervisor, Vice Dean of School of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing University of Technology, Director of Institute of Automation, Nanjing University of Technology. Candidates sponsored by Jiangsu 333 High-level Talent Program and "Six Talent Peaks" Program of Jiangsu Province. Member of the process Control Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, member of the Predictive Control and intelligent decision Committee, member of the Education Work Committee, China engineering education professional certification expert. He has presided over 6 projects above provincial level such as the National Natural Science Foundation and more than 20 enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 90 academic papers in authoritative journals such as IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, including more than 30 SCI/EI searches, 8 authorized invention patents, and 1 software copyright. He has won 1 Chinese Patent Excellence Award, 5 provincial and ministerial level teaching achievement awards such as the second prize of National teaching achievements, and edited 2 textbooks.
Prof. Adrian David Cheok
IET Fellow, Fellow of Engineers Australia，FIEAust, IEEE Senior Member
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Adrian David Cheok (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, in 2018.,He is a Full Professor with the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He was a Full Professor at i-University Tokyo, the Director of the Imagineering Institute, a Visiting Professor at Raffles University, Malaysia, a Visiting Professor at the University of Novi Sad-Serbia, on Technical faculty “Mihailo Pupin”, Serbia, Faculty of Ducere Business School, and a CEO of Nikola Tesla Technologies Corporation. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He entered the elite list of the H-index for Computer Science, a list that contains only the top 0.06% of all computer scientists in the world. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by University of Adelaide, in recognition of his achievements and contribution in the field of computing, engineering, and multisensory communication. The Governor General of Australia, Representative of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, has awarded Australia’s highest honor the Order of Australia to him, for his contribution to international education and research.(Based on document published on 15 May 2024).
Prof. Giuseppe Carbone
IEEE Senior Member
University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe Carbone was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1972. He received the master’s degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cassino, Italy, where he is being a key member of the Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics (LARM) for about 20 years.,From 2015 to 2017, he was a Senior Lecturer with Sheffield Hallam University, U.K., and a member of the executive board of Sheffield Robotics. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor with DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy. He edited/co-edited four books with Springer International Publisher. He has been participating or coordinating more than 20 research projects at national and international level, including 7th European Framework and Horizon 2020. His research interests include aspects of mechanics of manipulation and grasp, mechanics of robots, and mechanics of machinery with more than 300 published articles and over ten patent submissions. He has received several awards, including three IFToMM “Young Delegate” Awards and two JSPS Awards in Japan. He is currently the Deputy Chair of IFToMM Technical Committee on Robotics and Mechatronics, the Deputy Chair of the Youth Committee of the Society of Bionics and Biomechanics, and a Treasurer of the IFToMM Italy Society.(Based on document published on 17 February 2020).
Prof. Zhou Gu
IEEE Senior Member
Anhui Polytechnic University, China
Zhou Gu, Doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor. Jiangsu Province "blue Project" academic leader, IEEE senior member, IEEE EPS special committee member, cloud control and decision committee member, network science and engineering special committee member. He won the third prize of Science and Technology Award of Henan Province in 2023 (Natural Science). In recent years at Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man Cybernetics-Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent More than 100 SCI papers have been published in Transportation Systems, Information Sciences and other journals. Papers published in IEEE Systems Journal won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Systems Council and were included in Stanford University's 2023 "Top 2% of the World's Top Scientists" list.
Prof. Tingqiang Chen
Nanjing Tech University, China
Professor, Member of the Academic Committee of Nanjing University of Technology, Assistant Dean, Visiting Scholar of University of Minnesota (2015/9-2016/9), Master's Supervisor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Doctor of Management, Master of Management, Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics).
Publication Chairs
Prof. Qingsheng Zeng
IEEE Senior Member
National Research Institute of Canada, Canada
Qingsheng Zeng (S'97--M'02--SM'11) received his Ph.D. from University of Ottawa, Canada, and is currently an adjunct professor and PhD advisor of University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Université du Québec an Outaouais (UQO), and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique -- Centre Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT). He has been a research engineer and a senior research engineer at Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Government of Canada. Dr. Zeng has undertaken research and teaching in several fields, including analysis and design of aircraft antennas, electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI), ultrawideband technology, radio wave propagation, computational electromagnetics. He has been the Chair of AP (Antennas and Propagation) / MTT (Microwave Theory and Techniques) Joint Chapter and Secretary of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) Chapter of IEEE Ottawa, a Member of IEEE Canada Industry Relations Committee, and a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Zeng has been a member of the Strategic Projects Grant (SPG) Selection Panel (Information and Communications Technologies B) for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), a member of Site Visit Committee of NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC), and a reviewer of NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowships.
Prof. Xin Wang
IEEE Member
Heilongjiang University, China
Xin Wang, graduated from Northeastern University in 2016 with a doctorate degree in navigation, guidance and control. He is now a professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Heilongjiang University, tutor of postgraduate students, and recipient of Heilongjiang Province Outstanding Youth Fund. He is mainly engaged in the research of multi-agent system coordination control and its application, intelligent perception and security control of information physical system. He has presided over more than 10 projects such as National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund, China Postdoctoral Fund, and Heilongjiang Province Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund. He has published more than 70 papers in academic journals and conferences at home and abroad, including 50 SCI papers (3 are ESI highly cited papers). More than 10 papers have been published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems et al. IEEE Trans Series Transactions. Published three academic monographs. Google academic citations more than 1,500 times, SCI he cited more than 900 times. He is currently a member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), a member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a member of IEEE Systems, People and Cybernetics Society (SMC), and a reviewer of Mathematical Review of the American Mathematical Society. Member of Adaptive Dynamic Planning and reinforcement Learning Professional Committee of Chinese Society of Automation, member of Intelligent control and system professional Committee of Chinese Command and Control Society, senior member of Heilongjiang Automation Society.
Assoc. Prof. Sohrab Mirsaeidi
IEEE Senior Member
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Sohrab Mirsaeidi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia in 2016. Subsequently, he furthered his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China from 2016 to 2019. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China. Sohrab Mirsaeidi has published 60+ papers and 2 books in the field of Microgrids and Large-Scale Power Systems.
Organizing Committee Chair
Prof. Huimin Ouyang
IEEE Member
Nanjing Tech University, China
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing University of Technology. He is currently deputy Dean of School of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing Tech University.
Prof. Yonghui Sun
Hohai University, China
Yonghui Sun, male, born in July 1980 in Pingdingshan, Henan Province, is a member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from City University of Hong Kong with a doctorate degree in 2010. He is now a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Energy and Electrical Engineering of Hohai University. He presided over one sub-project of the National Key Research and development Plan, one project of the National Natural Science Foundation, and two science and technology projects of State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., LTD. He has presided over the completion of a National Natural Science Foundation youth project, a Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation surface project, and a number of power grid enterprise cooperation projects. In 2017, he was selected as the 14th batch of "Six Talents Peak" high-level talents in Jiangsu Province, and in 2016, he was selected as the young and middle-aged scientific and technological leaders of the fifth "333 High-level Talents Training Project" in Jiangsu Province. Up to now, he has published more than 80 academic papers in authoritative journals at home and abroad such as IEEE Trans. Power Systems and Proceedings of China Electrical Engineering, among which more than 50 are included in SCI, more than 1,500 SCI citations, H index is 19, and more than 20 invention patents are authorized. As the main completion person, he has won the first prize of 2010 Jiangsu Science and Technology Award (ranked 4th), the third prize of 2012 Zhejiang Science and Technology Award (ranked 3rd) and other awards. His current research interests mainly focus on the basic theory and application of smart energy system modeling, optimal scheduling and planning, energy big data and artificial intelligence. He taught "Principle of Automatic Control", "Filter and Stochastic System" and other courses.
Publicity Committee Chair
Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Junaid
IEEE Senior Member
China University of Mining and Technology, China
Muhammad Junaid received his Ph.D. (2020), M.S. (2015), and B.Eng. (2011) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power system engineering. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, SARHAD University of Science & Information Technology, in Pakistan.