Prof. Jing Zhang, Hunan University, China

Chairperson of the Xiangtan University Education Foundation

Zhang Jing is currently a professor and doctoral advisor in the Department of Automation. He has taught at Hunan University since October 1984, was promoted to professor in 1994, and was selected as a doctoral advisor in 1998. From July 2002 to May 2013, he served as Vice President of Hunan University, and from May 2013 to December 2016, he served as Party Secretary of Xiangtan University. He concurrently serves as Deputy Director of the Electronics, Information, and Electrical Engineering Subcommittee of the China Engineering Education Accreditation Association; Deputy Director of the Conclusion Review Committee of the China Engineering Education Accreditation Association; and Vice President of the Educational Evaluation Branch of the China Higher Education Society. In 1989, he was named a National Outstanding Teacher and a Model Worker in the Hunan Provincial Education System; in 2000, he was awarded a Special Government Allowance by the State Council.

Prof. Panfeng Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Dean of School of Astronautics NPU

Huang Panfeng, Dean of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University; Professor (Level 2); doctoral advisor; leader of a national-level innovation team; leader of the Shaanxi Provincial Key Innovation Team for Intelligent Robotics; recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017); National Leading Talent (2017), expert receiving a government special allowance (2024), and Chief Scientist of a National Key Research and Development Program project. He currently serves as a member of the 8th Disciplinary Review Panel for Control Science and Engineering under the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Deputy Head of a military expert group, and an expert on the Management Expert Group for the “Science and Technology Innovation 2030—New Generation Artificial Intelligence” Major Project under the Ministry of Science and Technology. He previously served as an expert on the expert panel for a major project under the National 863 Program and as Deputy Chief Engineer for a national major mission. His primary research areas include space robotics technology, teleoperation technology, intelligent control of spacecraft, human-machine hybrid intelligent control, and swarm cooperative control. He has published over 170 SCI-indexed papers and has received numerous scientific and technological awards, including the First Prize in Natural Sciences of Shaanxi Province, the First Prize in Technological Invention of Shaanxi Province, the First Prize in Scientific and Technological Progress of the Armed Forces, and the Second Prize in National Defense Technological Invention.

Prof. Yang Tang, East China University of Science and Technology, China

IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, National Distinguished Professor

Dr. Yang Tang is now a Professor at Department of Automation, and the Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He was a Research Associate with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2015, he conducted his postdoctoral research with the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. He is now a Professor with the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He has published over 190 refereed papers in international journals such as Nature Communications, Patterns (Cell Press), Automatica, IEEE Transactions, SIAM Journals, CCF-A and APS journals (including more than 30 papers in IEEE TAC and Automatica). His current research interests include multi-agent systems/complex networks, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, hybrid dynamical systems, and their applications. Dr. Tang was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2011 and he got the National Young Distinguished Professor and National Distinguished Professor of 2015 and 2020, respectively.

He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, an Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Senior Board Member of Scientific Reports, Senior Editor of IEEE ACCESS, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Systems Journal and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IFAC Journal), Science China Information Sciences, Science China Technological Sciences, Engineering and Acta Automatica Sinca , etc. He is also a Leading Guest Editor for several special issues in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, CHAOS, the Journal of the Franklin Institute. He is a Guest Editor for topics like industrial metaverse, large language models, embodied intelligence in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and Science China Information Sciences. He is a Vice Chair of Technical Committee on Big Data, Vice Chair of Technical Committee on Networked Intelligence, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), a technical committee of Complex Systems and Complex Networks (CSIAM, China) and a member of Young Working Committee in Chinese Association of Automation. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Yang Shi, University of Victoria, Canada

Fellow of IEEE/ASME/CSME, Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)

Professor Yang Shi is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. and is a Professional Engineer (P.ENG.). Prof. Shi is recognized with fellowships in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). He is the head of the Applied Control and Information Processing Lab, where he leads research in the fields of control systems and information processing. His research interests include Dynamic systems and controls, Mechatronics and robotics, Industrial cyber-physical systems.