| Prof. Chenghui Zhang, Shandong University【IEEE Fellow】Shandong University, China Chenghui Zhang is a Chair Professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, and serves as the Deputy Director of the Academic Committee at Shandong University. He is the Director of the National Engineering Center for "New Energy Control" and holds prominent positions including Vice President and Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Chairman of the Technical Committee on New Energy Systems Control, and Fellow of the China Power Supply Society. He is also a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program, a Taishan Scholars Climbing Program Expert, and a National Candidate of the "New Century Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project". He received his Ph.D. degree (and other degrees) from Shandong University, China. His research interests include new energy system control, engineering optimization control, intelligent control, and test instrumentation. Prof. Zhang has led nearly 20 major national key research projects, including the National 863 Program and National Key Research and Development Programs. His outstanding contributions have been recognized as outstanding achievements by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) during both the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plan periods. He has led the formulation of 9 international and national standards, authored 7 monographs, and holds more than 100 authorized Chinese invention patents and over 10 US patents as the first inventor, for which he has received 5 China Patent Excellence Awards. He has published more than 200 SCI-indexed papers with nearly 20,000 citations, and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher and listed among the top 0.5‰ of scholars in the ScholarGPS global ranking. |
| Prof. Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University【 IEEE Fellow】Tsinghua University, China Jiwen Lu is a tenured Professor and serves as the Deputy Head of the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He is a recipient of the National High-Level Talent Program and the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, and Signal and Information Processing, respectively, from Xi'an University of Technology in 2003 and 2006. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2003 to 2007, he served as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Information Science at Xi'an University of Technology. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Research Scientist at the Singapore Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Tsinghua University as an Associate Professor (tenure-track) in 2015, was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) in 2021, and to tenured Professor in 2024. Prof. Lu has been the recipient of the NSFC Excellent Youth Science Fund (2018) and the NSFC National Outstanding Youth Science Fund (2021). He was elected Fellow of IAPR in 2020, Fellow of AAIA in 2022, and Fellow of IEEE in 2024. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. |
| Prof. Chengyi XiaTiangong University, China Chengyi Xia is the Executive Deputy Dean, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Tiangong University. He serves as a member of the Technical Committee on Complex Systems and Complex Networks of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), a member of the Technical Committee on Network Science and Engineering of the Chinese Institute of Command and Control (CICC), a member of the Technical Committee on Aerospace Intelligence of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and a council member of the Service Systems Branch of the Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC). He received his Ph.D. degree from Nankai University, China. He was selected as a recipient of the Tianjin "131" Innovative Talent Training Program (First Level) in 2014, the Tianjin Young and Middle-Aged Backbone Talent in Higher Education Institutions in 2017, and the Tianjin Distinguished Professor in 2019. Prof. Xia has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious domestic and international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Physical Review X, Physics of Life Reviews, Science China-Information Sciences, Control and Decision, and Journal of Systems Engineering. He has led 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and 3 provincial/ministerial-level research projects. He has been awarded one Second Prize and one Third Prize of the Tianjin Natural Science Award. |
