Speakers

Prof. Qinglai Wei

Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Bio:Wei Qinglai is a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Complex Systems Management and Control, director of the Chinese Association of Automation, director of the International Neural Network Society, and winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund. His research interests include self-learning optimal control, adaptive optimal decision making, self-evolution of complex systems, adaptive dynamic programming, artificial intelligence and its industrial applications. At present, he has published/accepted more than 160 SCI papers and published 6 monographs. As the project leader, he has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects, including 15 provincial and ministerial fund projects, including the Outstanding Youth Fund of Natural Science Foundation, the national key research and development Plan, and the key fund of national defense professional field. Received 9 Paper awards, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, Qian Xuesen Excellent Paper Award of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica; Excellent paper award of Acta Automatica Sinica. He has won 10 science and technology awards, including the first prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Society of Automation, the first prize of Innovation Award of the China Association of Invention, the second prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, the Innovation Award of China's Industry-academy-research Cooperation, the Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Society of Automation, the Yang Jiaxing Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Automation, and the Young Scholar Award of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society. Selected as the world's most cited scientist. He is the executive editor of Neurocomputing and the Chinese and English versions of Acta Automatica, and has served on the editorial board of 13 journals, including 6 IEEE journals. He is the vice president of IEEE CIS Beijing Chapter and a member of the International Neural Network Society. He has held important positions in more than 20 international academic conferences in related fields, such as ICCSSE2023, RCAE2022, ICRAE2021, DDCLS2020, ICONIP 2018, ISNN2017, WCICA 2016, etc.

Prof. Guanghui Wen

IET Fellow

Southeast University, China

Bio:Dr. Wen received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical systems and control from Peking University, China, in 2012. Currently, he is a Full Professor with the Department of Systems Science, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, analysis and synthesis of complex networks, cyber-physical systems, and resilient control. Dr. Wen was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in the 6th Chinese Conference on Complex Networks in 2010. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018. Dr. Wen was awarded a National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2017. Moreover, he was a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2018. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man and Cybernetics: System, and Asian J. Control. He is an IET Fellow.

Prof. Xin Xu

Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

National University of Defense Technology, China

Bio: Deputy director of the Adaptive Dynamic Planning and Reinforcement Learning Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, and advisory member of the Robot Intelligence Professional Committee. He is mainly engaged in the research of autonomous control and machine learning of intelligent unmanned systems, and has won 1 second prize of National Natural Science, 2 first prize of Hunan Natural Science, and 1 prize of Hunan Science and Technology Innovation Team. He has presided over more than 20 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and national key research and development plan. He has published 2 monographs and more than 100 SCI papers. Representative papers have been published in IEEE TNNLS, J. AI Research, J of Field Robotics, Automatica, IEEE TSMC:Systems, IEEE TPAMI and other journals as well as CVPR, ICRA and other international conferences. IEEE Transactions on SMC: Associate Editor of international journals such as Systems, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Associate Editor of CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology and editorial Board member of Control Theory and Applications.

Prof. Min Liu

Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

Hunan University, China

Bio: Liu Min is a second-level professor and Vice president of Hunan University. Winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, Chief scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program, core member of the innovation research group of the National Natural Science Foundation. He is the vice chairman of Hunan Automation Society, the director of the Key Laboratory of Visual Inspection and Control Technology of Advanced Manufacturing in Machinery Industry, the deputy director of the Member Development and Service Working Committee of China Association of Image and Graphics, and the editorial board of IEEE TNNLS and other journals. He has presided over 2 national key research and development program projects and 1 National Natural Science Foundation key project. The first and corresponding author has published more than 50 papers in IEEE journals such as TPAMI, won 5 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards and the second prize of National teaching achievements (the second prize).

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.