| Prof. Min LiuHunan University, China Liu Min is a Level 2 Professor at Hunan University and Party Secretary of the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Young Changjiang Scholar, Chief Scientist of a National Key Research and Development Program project, and a core member of an Innovation Group funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as Vice President of the Hunan Automation Society, Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Vision Inspection and Control Technology under the Ministry of Machinery Industry, and Deputy Director of the Membership Development and Service Committee of the China Society of Image and Graphics. He also serves on the editorial boards of journals such as IEEE TNNLS. She has led two National Key Research and Development Program projects and a National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Project. As first or corresponding author, she has published more than 50 papers in IEEE Transactions, including TPAMI. She has received the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Society of Image and Graphics (1st author), the Second Prize for National Teaching Achievement (2nd author), and five other provincial and ministerial-level awards. |
| Prof. Zuqing ZhuUniversity of Science and Technology of China, China In 2007, he received a Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis, and is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science of China University of Science and Technology. The main research directions are the next generation network architecture, cloud computing and optical communication networks, and multimedia networks. More than 140 papers have been published or employed in SCI and/or EI retrieval, including 28 papers in IEEE journals and periodicals; 19 papers in IEEE Express; 4 papers in IEEE magazine; One IEEE INFOCOM paper from the top international conference in this field. He was selected into the "Outstanding Young Scientists Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the "Outstanding Talents Program in the New Century" of the Ministry of Education. |
| Prof. Honglei XuCurtin University, Australia Professor Honglei Xu is with the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Curtin University, Australia. He serves as President of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and President of the Association of Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS), and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Curtin University and a PhD in Systems Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include optimization and control, operations research, and industrial and control engineering. He has led ARC Discovery and Linkage projects and multiple industry-funded grants, edited several books, published extensively in leading journals, and serves on the editorial boards of multiple international journals. |
| Prof. Yan ZhouXiangtan University, China Zhou Yan is a Shaofeng Scholar Distinguished Professor and doctoral advisor at Xiangtan University, as well as Vice Dean of the School of Automation and Electronic Information at Xiangtan University. He received his Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010 and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and the University of Sydney. He currently serves as the head of the Control Science and Engineering degree program at Xiangtan University, the director of the national first-class undergraduate program in Automation, and a member of the university’s Academic Committee. He is also a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)-certified AI Agent Application Engineer (Senior) and a member of the Automation Teaching Guidance Committee of the China Machinery Industry Education Association. His research focuses primarily on artificial intelligence and intelligent control, and he has published over 100 papers in SCI-indexed journals and other publications. |
| Assoc. Prof. Pavel LoskotZhejiang University - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, China Pavel Loskot joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute in January 2021 as an Associate Professor after being 14 years with Swansea University in the UK. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. In the past 30 years, he was involved in numerous collaborative research and development projects, and also held a number of paid consultancy contracts with industry. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM and APSIPA, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education, and the IARIA 2025 Fellow. His current research interests focus on mathematical and probabilistic modeling, statistical signal processing and machine learning for multi-sensor and longitudinal data. |
