Prof. Huaicheng Yan

East China University of Science and Technology, China

Huaicheng Yan, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor.

He has been selected for the National-level Talents Program, the Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents in Science and Technology Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Leading Talents, Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.

His main research interests cover networked control systems, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, intelligent autonomous driving, control of robots, unmanned aerial vehicles and spacecraft, as well as cybersecurity.He has presided over more than 40 national and provincial/ministerial projects, including subjects of the National Key Research and Development Program of China and projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has published over 200 SCI-indexed papers, among which more than 120 are featured in Automatica and IEEE Transactions journals. Over 20 of his papers have been listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers, and more than 10 as ESI Hot Papers. Two of his papers were selected into the "100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China". He has won the Best Paper Award at domestic and international academic conferences 5 times, and has been granted or filed more than 30 national invention patents.

He currently serves as Associate Editor for multiple international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and International Journal of Robotics and Automation. He has received 8 science and technology awards, including the Second Class Prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, and the Second Class Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award.

He is now a Member of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Standing Member of the Youth Working Committee of CAA, Member of the Intelligent Robotics Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and Director of the Shanghai Automation Association.

Prof. Li Chai

Zhejiang University, China

Li Chai, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is currently a Professor at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, and a Member of the University Academic Committee.

He has received honors and awards including the Second Prize of Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award and the title of Advanced Science and Technology Worker of Hubei Province. He was selected into the First Batch of Hubei High-end Talent Leading and Training Program, Hubei New Century High-level Talent Program, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET) of the Ministry of Education of China. His main research interests include intelligent autonomous systems, graph signal processing and learning, distributed optimization, and networked control systems. He has published more than 100 papers in top international journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE TSP), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC), and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI). He has chaired and completed 5 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Technical Committee on CPS Control and Decision of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), a Member of the CAA Technical Committee on Process Control, and sits on the editorial board of journals including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (IEEE TCS-II), Control and Decision, and Control Engineering of China.

Prof. Jiahu Qin

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Jiahu Qin, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Deputy Dean at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He has served as a Professor at USTC since 2015.

His research focuses on distributed decision-making and control of multi-agent systems, as well as security and control of cyber-physical systems. He has chaired the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and a key subject under the Science and Technology Innovation 2030 – "New Generation Artificial Intelligence" Major Project.

He was awarded the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2019, the First Prize of CAA Natural Science Award and the First Prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Award in 2021, and the First Prize of CAA Technical Invention Award in 2023. He also received the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Best Conference Paper Award.

He has published more than 80 papers in leading international journals including Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has published 2 English monographs with Springer. He currently serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the CAA, and is on the editorial board of Acta Automatica Sinica and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Prof. Wangli He

East China University of Science and Technology, China

Wangli He. PhD, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Senior Member of IEEE. 

She is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the Young Talent Support Project of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Rising Star Program, and the title of "March 8th Red Banner Bearer" of the Shanghai Education System. She has served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems and Applications, and Publication Chair of the 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. Her main research areas include distributed cooperative control and optimization of multi-agent systems, cooperative perception, control and decision-making of multi-robot/vehicle systems, as well as machine vision and machine learning. To date, she has published more than 60 papers in authoritative journals including Automatica, IEEE Transactions series journals, and journals of the American Physical Society (APS).

She has chaired multiple projects including the Key Research and Development Program subject of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the General Program of the NSFC, and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai. She was awarded the First Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (2nd ranked) in 2019. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for international journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.

Prof. Biao Luo

Central South University, China

Biao LUO, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor.

Recipient of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund of China, Hunan Province Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent, Recipient of Hunan Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund, IEEE Senior Member, and winner of the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) in 2015.In recent years, he has published more than 80 academic papers in leading academic journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE TCYB), Automatica, and Acta Automatica Sinica.From 2014 to 2018, he served as Assistant Research Fellow and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA).

He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Technical Committee on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He is currently (or has previously served as) Associate Editor for multiple international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review, Neurocomputing, and Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization.

His research is mainly oriented to application scenarios including intelligent autonomous driving, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, quantitative trading, and smart grids, with core research directions covering intelligent control, decision-making and game theory, swarm collaboration and adversarial game, deep learning, reinforcement learning, intelligent autonomous decision-making, and intelligence augmentation.

Prof. Shuai Liu

Shandong University, China

Shuai Liu, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He is a recipient of the National Overseas High-level Young Talent Program, and a Taishan Scholar Expert of Shandong Province. 

He received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2012. His research directions include distributed optimization, intelligent control, and reinforcement learning. He has published more than 100 SCI-indexed papers, and holds 20 authorized domestic and international patents.He has chaired or participated in multiple international and national-level projects, including 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of Singapore, 1 research fund of Temasek Laboratories Singapore, 1 NSFC Innovative Research Group Project (as a key member), 2 NSFC Key Programs, 2 NSFC Joint Funds, 1 NSFC General Program, and 1 Major Innovation Engineering Project of Shandong Province. 

As the first principal completer, he has received the Second Prize of Shandong Provincial Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of CAA Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Natural Science Award of Shandong Association of Automation, and the Technical Invention Award of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society (CIS). He sits on the editorial board of leading control journals includingIEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE T-CYBER), and serves as Director or Member of multiple technical committees, including the Technical Committee on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control of the Chinese Institute of Command and Control (CICC).