Prof. Xinping Guan (IEEE Fellow)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Biodata: Xinping Guan
(Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from
Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China, in 1986, and the
Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999. He
is currently the Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China, where he is also the Dean of
School of Electronic, Information and Electrical
Engineering, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of
Systems Control and Information Processing, Ministry of
Education of China. Before that, he was the Executive
Director of Office of Research Management, Shanghai Jiao
Tong University, a Full Professor, and the Dean of
Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao,
China. He has authored or coauthored five research
monographs, more than 200 papers in IEEE transactions and
other peer-reviewed journals, and numerous conference
papers. His research interests include industrial network
systems, smart manufacturing, and underwater networks. As a
Principal Investigator, he has finished/been working on more
than 20 national key projects. He is the Leader of the
prestigious Innovative Research Team of the National Natural
Science Foundation of China. He is an Executive Committee
Member of Chinese Automation Association Council and the
Chinese Artificial Intelligence Association Council. Dr.
Guan was the recipient of the Second Prize of the National
Natural Science Award of China in both 2008 and 2018, First
Prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of
Education of China in both 2006 and 2016, and IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in
2008. He is a National Outstanding Youth honored by NSF of
China, and Changjiang Scholar's by the Ministry of Education
of China and State-Level Scholar of New Century Bai Qianwan
Talent Program of China.
关新平，上海交通大学自动化与感知学院讲席教授，博士生导师，系统控制与信息处理教育部重点实验室主任，入选IEEE
Fellow，教育部“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授、国家杰出青年基金获得者、“新世纪百千万人才工程”国家级人才。从事网络系统理论与应用研究近30年，提出并建立网络系统分布式感知与协同控制基础理论与方法，在“感知-传输-控制一体化”综合设计理论与方法体系等方面做出系统、创造性贡献。研究成果先后获国家自然科学二等奖2项
(排第1、第2)，国际IEEE TCCPS工业技术卓越奖、教育部自然科学一等奖2项、上海市技术发明一等奖2项
(均排第1)，获“IEEE模糊系统汇刊杰出论文奖”及会议最佳论文奖10余项。发表国内外重要期刊论文400余篇(IEEE汇刊、Automatica共298篇，国内一级学会期刊50篇)，Google
Scholar总他引28000余次，出版学术专著5部，授权发明专利130余项，带领团队牵头制定国际新标准6项，连续多年入选爱思唯尔高被引学者。担任中国自动化学会常务理事，控制理论专业委员会副主任委员，上海市自动化学会理事长，曾任教育部科学技术委员会副秘书长。先后担任IEEE
SMC-C, IEEE/CAA Automatica Sinica等8个中英文期刊编委。
Prof. Simon X. Yang
University of Guelph, Canada
Biodata: Simon X. Yang
received the B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Peking
University, Beijing, China, the first of two M.Sc. degrees
in Biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
the second M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Houston, Houston, TX, and the Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Dr. Yang is currently a
Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and
Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Guelph,
Guelph, ON, Canada.
Prof. Yang’s research interests include robotics,
intelligent systems, control systems, sensors and
multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, bio-inspired
intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, fuzzy
systems, evolutionary computation, intelligent agriculture,
intelligent communications, intelligent transportation, and
computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang has been very active
in professional activities. He has been served as the
Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of several
international journals, and has involved in the organization
of many international conferences. He was on the grant
review panel of NSERC, CIHR and several other grant
agencies.
Prof. Jing Zhou
University of Agder, Norway
Biodata: Jing Zhou is a
professor and research director of the Priority Research
Center of Mechatronics in the Faculty of Engineering and
Science, University of Agder, Norway. She received the
Ph.D.degree from the Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, in 2006. Dr. Zhou has holds positions as a senior
research scientist at the International Research Center of
Stavanger, Norway, and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her
research interests include adaptive control, nonlinear
control, networked control, learning-based control, and
control applications to mechatronics systems including
cranes, marine vessels, oil drilling systems, robotics.
Dr. Zhou is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Technological
Sciences. She serves as an associate editor of several
journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Systems &
Control Letter. She has contributed to numerous conferences, serving as general chair and technical
program chair and is an AdCom member-at large for IEEE IES.
Prof. Hiromasa Oku
Gunma University, Japan
Biodata: Hiromasa Oku received the Dr. Eng. degree in mathematical engineering and information physics from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2003. He was a Researcher with PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, from 2003 to 2005. He was a Research Associate (2005–2007), an Assistant Professor (2007–2011), and a Lecturer/an Assistant Professor (2011–2014) with The University of Tokyo. He has been an Associate Professor with the School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, since 2014, where he is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Informatics. He is also a member of the Gunma University Council on Education and Research (2025-). He has received numerous awards in robotics, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction, including the Best Paper Award at VRST 2017, the Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award (2016), and multiple honors from JSME, SICE, and METI. His research interests include high-speed image processing, high-speed optical devices, and dynamic image control.