Prof. Shihua Li

Southeast University

Shihua Li received his bachelor, master, Ph.D. degrees all in Automatic Control from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 1995, 1998 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with School of Automation, Southeast University, where he is a Chief Professor, Jiangsu Specially Appointed Professor.  He is the chairman of IEEE IES Nanjing Chapter, Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA and CAA. He is also the Director General of Jiangsu Association of Automation. His main research interests include modeling and nonlinear control theory with applications to mechatronic systems. He has published 3 monographs, over 300 international journal and conference papers with 40000+ citations (Google Scholar). He is one of Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers all over the world in 2017-2024. He is a winner of the 6th Nagamori Award in 2020.

Prof. Guangchen Wang

Shandong University, China

Wang Guangchen is Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the first batch of Young Changjiang Scholars, the Shandong Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education. His research focuses on optimal control theory for stochastic systems with incomplete information, and he has achieved innovative results characterized by the backward separation principle. He has published one monograph with Springer and numerous academic papers in leading international control journals including SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He currently leads a key project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, was awarded the Chen Hanfu Prize and three provincial/ministerial science and technology awards, and serves on the editorial board of  Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences.

Prof. Jizhou Lai

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

His main research interests include inertial navigation, multi-source integrated navigation, and perception and navigation for unmanned systems. He is a national high-level leading talent, an outstanding innovator in civil aviation science and technology, and Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Inertial Technology.

He serves as Deputy Director of the MIIT Key Laboratory of Advanced Aircraft Navigation, Control and Health Management. In recent years, he has presided over the 173 Basic Strengthening Key Project, Joint Fund and General Program projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and key projects of the Jiangsu Frontier Innovation Science and Technology Program. He has published four academic monographs/textbooks and obtained more than 90 authorized patents. He has won eight provincial/ministerial science and technology awards, including one First Prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Progress Award and one First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award as the first completer. He is a recipient of the Li Ming Talent Award from the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Prof. Qiang Chen

Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Qiang Chen is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University of Technology, and he is an awardee of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Young Scholar Program. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Zhejiang University of Technology and Director of the Provincial-Level Electronic Information Experimental Teaching Center at the School of Information Engineering, and his research focuses on intelligent adaptive control of electromechanical systems. He has presided over 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 2 key projects funded by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and published 2 academic monographs in English, as well as over 100 academic papers as the first/corresponding author in high-level domestic and international journals and conferences, in which 10 papers are selected as ESI highly cited/hot papers. As the first inventor, more than 60 authorized invention patents have been obtained, and 15 have been converted. As the first author, he has successively won awards and honors such as the Gold Award at the 50th Geneva International Invention Exhibition, the Third Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Zhejiang Province, the Second Prize for Natural Science of the Chinese Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Society, the Second Prize for Innovation of the Invention and Entrepreneurship Award of the China Association for Inventions, and the "Leading 5000- Top Academic Papers in China's Fine Science and Technology Journals" (F5000) in 2024. He has been selected for three consecutive years as one of the "Top 2% Global Scientists" by Stanford University in the United States, and for two consecutive years as one of the Top 5% Highly Cited Scholars by China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). He also serves as a member of several specialized committees of the Chinese Society of Automation, the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, and the Chinese Society of Command and Control, as well as a director of the Zhejiang Electric Power Society, an editorial board member of the Science and Technology Bulletin journal, and a young editorial board member of the Journal of Intelligent Systems and Robot Learning journals.

Prof. Qian Ma

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Ma Qian is a Zijin Distinguished Professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2013. She has been selected as a Young Scholar and Distinguished Professor under the Chang Jiang Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education. She has led key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. Her research focuses on control and decision-making in autonomous unmanned systems, as well as privacy protection and data security. She has received the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Association of Automation, and the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Association of Automation.