Invited Speakers

Prof. Lin Chen

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Bio: Lin Chen is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, which he joined in 2019. He received his B.E. in 2002 from Southeast University, his Engineer Diploma in 2005 and Ph.D. in 2008 from Telecom ParisTech (ENST). He received his Habilitation thesis at University of Paris-Sud in 2017. He was an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Paris-Sud from 2009 to 2019 and a visiting scholar at National ICT Center of Australia (NICTA) in 2008. His research interests revolve around modeling and design of distributed algorithms in emerging networked systems, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, resilience, and security. He received the 2018 CNRS Bronze Medal and was a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He has served on the editorial board of several international journals and in the TPC of major conferences in communications and networking. He served as the Chair of the IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing with Cognition and Cooperation.

Prof. Jixin Ma

University of Greenwich, U.K.

Bio: Jixin Ma is a Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) and Director of PhD/MPhil Programme at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich. He has also been the Director of the Centre for Computer and Computational Science (2011-18) and Leader of Artificial Intelligence Research Group (2008–2018). His main research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Information Systems, with special interests in Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Information Security, Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning.

He has published 200+ research papers in top-tier journals including Information Fusion, Information Sciences, IEEE IoT, IEEE Trans on Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, Neural Computing and Applications, Information Systems, Neurocomputing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the Computer Journal, Applied Ontology, Artificial Intelligence Review, etc., and at esteemed international conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI and ECAI, etc.

He has won 6 Best Papers / Student Paper awards and as Principal / Co-Investigator, received research grants worth more than £330,000.

He obtained his BSc and MSc of Mathematics in 1982 and 1988, respectively, and PhD of Computer Sciences in 1994. Before his professorship appointment, he was a Reader (2007-2019), Senior Lecturer (1997-2006), and Research Fellow and Lecture (1994 – 1996), at University of Greenwich, U.K. He is also a Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, Anhui University, Hainan University, Zhengzhou Light Industrial University and Macau City University.

Prof. Keke Huang

Professor at Central South University, Deputy Dean of the School of Automation.

Recipient of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan"

Bio: Keke Huang is aprofessor and doctoral supervisorat Central South University, serving asthe Associate Dean of the School of Automation.He is a recipient of National High-Level Talent Special Support Programs (10,000 Talents Program)forYoung Talents,a core member of the national “Huang Dania-style” teaching team and a Distinguished Young Scholar ofHunan Province. He is listed among thetop 2% of scientists globally for his long-term research onmodeling, optimization decision-making, and coordinated control in the process industry in 2023 and 2024.He has published over 80 high-quality research papers in IEEE Transactionsor IFAC journals (including 8 ESI hot papers/highly cited papers), and has been granted over 30 national invention patents. He has led 14 research projects, including key research and development programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, industrial internet innovation engineering projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023, theFirst Prize ofHunan Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2024,the Excellent Young Scientist Award of the Non-Ferrous Metals Society of China, the First Prize of Science and Technology of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry of China, and the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Association of Automation. Additionally, he serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Automation Branch of the Non-Ferrous Metals Society of China, a committee member of the Process Control Committee andthe Fault Diagnosis and Safety Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation.

Prof. Yong Xu

Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology

Recipient of the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars

Bio: Yong Xu received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2020. He held a post-doctoral position with the National Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, from 2020 to 2022. In July 2022, he joined the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor. His current research interests include multi-agent systems, distributed cooperative control and applications, reinforcement learning/data-driven control, event-triggered control, security analysis, and the control of networked systems.