Keynote Speakers
| Prof. Guoqi Li Professor at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Bio: Prof. Guoqi Li obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a Scientist at the Data Storage Institute and the Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. From 2014 to 2022, he served as an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Since 2022, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he currently holds the position of Full Professor. His research focuses on Brain-inspired Intelligence, Neuromorphic Computing, and Spiking Neural Networks. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Science Robotics, Proceedings of the IEEE, as well as top AI conferences including ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, among others. His papers have been cited more than 9000 times according to Google Scholar. |
Prof. Tao Li Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, East China Normal University Recipient of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program (Distinguished Professor), Ministry of Education, China. Bio: Tao Li received the B.E. degree in automation from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in systems theory from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2009. Since January 2017, he has been with East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, where he is currently a Professor, the Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Mathematics and Engineering Applications, Ministry of Education, China, and an affiliated Professor of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University at Shanghai. His current research interests include stochastic systems and control theory, Cyber-physical multiagent systems, distributed learning algorithms, and game theory.
Since 2022, Dr. Li has been awarded as the Most Cited Chinese Reseachers, Elsevier. Dr. Li was a recipient of the 28th “Zhang Siying” Outstanding Youth Paper Award in 2016, the Best Paper Award of the 7th Asian Control Conference in 2009, and honorable mentioned as one of five finalists for the Young Author Prize of the 17th IFAC Congress in 2008. He received the 2009 Singapore Millennium Foundation Research Fellowship and the 2010 Australian Endeavor Research Fellowship. He was entitled Dongfang Distinguished Professor by Shanghai Municipality in 2012, received the Excellent Young Scholar Fund from NSFC in 2015. He was twice elected to the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, Ministry of Education, China (Youth Scholar in 2018 and Distinguished Professor in 2023). He now serves as Associate Editor for several journals, including Systems and Control Letters, IFAC Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and IEEE Control Systems Letters. He is a Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.5 on Networked Systems and a Senior Member of IEEE. |
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| Prof. Hesheng Wang Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Bio: Winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund, General Chairman of IROS2025 Robot Summit Conference. He graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2002, and received his master's degree and doctor's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004 and 2007 respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2009. He is the deputy director of the Mixed Intelligence Committee of the Automation Society, the deputy director of the Intelligent Vehicle and Robot branch of the Instrumentation Society, the member of the integration robot Committee of the Automation Society, the member of the robot branch of the Mechanical Engineering Society, the member of the meta-universe committee of the simulation society, the member of the robot system simulation committee of the simulation society, and the member of the robot committee of the Automation Society. In recent years, he has published more than 200 SCI/EI indexed papers in domestic and foreign journals and conferences, including more than 100 SCI indexed papers, published more than 100 IEEE Transactions papers including TRO, TPAMI, TAC, TIP, etc., and cited more than 5,000 times by Google Scholar. More than 50 papers have been published in ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, the top conferences in the field of robotics, computer vision and artificial intelligence. More than 50 national invention patents have been authorized. He has won many outstanding paper awards in international conferences. As the project leader, he presided over several projects including National Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Fund, Outstanding Youth Fund, joint fund key projects, and surface projects. Won the Shanghai youth science and technology star, Shanghai Dawn plan, etc He served as the Program Chair of the International Conference on Robotics and Bionics (IEEE ROBIO2014) and International Advanced Intelligent Electromechanical Systems (IEEEAIM2019). General Chair of the International Congress on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEERCAR2016) and the International Congress on Robotics and Bionics (IEEE ROBIO2022). He will serve as the General Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2025 (IEEE/RSJIROS2025). IEEETransactions on Robotics, IEEETransactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEETransactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotic and Industrial Automation, Associate Editor, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Senior Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Advanced Intelligent Systems' Editorial Advisory Board. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference Editorial Board (CEB) is responsible for ICRA review. Research areas: Visual servo, Service robots, unmanned vehicles, robot control, computer vision, unmanned vehicles. |
Prof. Guanghui Wen Chief Professor (second-level Professor) at Southeast University Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars National Young Talent selected by the Ministry of Education, IET Fellow Bio: Doctoral supervisor (System Science, Cyberspace Security), Master Supervisor (System Science, Mathematics), winner of the National Outstanding Young Science Fund, National Young Talent selected by the Ministry of Education, winner of the National Outstanding Young Science Fund, Deputy director of a model sub-system Designer, Deputy Director of Jiangsu National Applied Mathematics Center, Executive Deputy Director of Jiangsu Information Mathematics Application Center (presiding). Long engaged in distributed control theory and control engineering, Research work in the field of network swarm intelligence theory and technology, autonomous intelligent unmanned systems. He has published in Nature sub-journals, Research, The Innovation and IEEE Transactions. He has published over 100 academic papers in journals such as Nature's sub-journals, Research, The Innovation, and IEEE transactions, and has authored four academic monographs with over ten thousand citations in SCI. He has received the Best Paper Award from an international academic journal once (The 7th Kimura Best Paper Award of Asian Journal of Control) and the Best Paper Award from domestic and international academic conferences five times. He serves as an editorial board member for international journals including IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, IEEE J. Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and Asian J. Control, and has received the inaugural Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award from Asian J. Control. He is also an editorial board member for domestic core journals such as "Automation Journal," "Command and Control Journal," and "Systems Engineering and Electronics Technology." He holds positions as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Command and Control Society, Deputy Director of the Big Data Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, and Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society. He has led over 30 scientific research projects, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, National Natural Science Fund Key Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology Key Research and Development Plan projects, Military Science Committee GF Innovation Zone projects, major special projects, ZF pre-research projects, and China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group horizontal projects. He has applied for over 70 national invention patents, with 28 granted, and has been granted one international PCT patent (US invention patent). He has received a first-prize scientific and technological award from a national-level society (ranked 1st), a gold award from the Geneva International Invention Exhibition (ranked 1st), and is an ARC DECRA Fellow, a recipient of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society's Young Distinguished Research Award, and has received the Young Scientist Award and first-prize Innovation Award from the Chinese Command and Control Society. He has cultivated two young teachers who have been selected for the national youth talent program, and among his students, two have been selected for the China Association for Science and Technology's Youth Support Program, one has received a first-prize national-level society excellent doctoral dissertation award, one has received Southeast University's excellent master's thesis award, and two master's graduates have gone on to pursue their Ph.D. at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia (with full scholarships). He has guided two undergraduate students to receive the Jiangsu Province's excellent undergraduate graduation design award, and members of the undergraduate SRTP project have studied at top 100 global universities such as Columbia University and the National University of Singapore. |
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| Prof. Xin Xu National University of Defense Technology, China Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars 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 search 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. Al 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. |
