Speakers

Prof. Graziano Chesi, The University of Hong Kong, China

IEEE Fellow

Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" (Springer 2009), "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming" (Springer 2011), and "LMI-Based Robustness Analysis In Uncertain Systems" (Now Publishers 2024). He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for contributions to control of nonlinear and multi-dimensional systems.

Prof. Sitian Qin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Sitian Qin was born in Shandong, China, in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010. Since 2010, he has worked at Harbin Institute of Technology in Weihai, China. He was an associate professor from 2013 to 2018 and is currently a professor. His current research interests include neural network theory and optimization.

Prof. Feng Duan, Nankai University, China

Professor Feng Duan is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2009. Since 2010, he has been working at Nankai University, focusing on research in brain science and artificial intelligence robotics.Professor Duan has been selected for several prestigious talent programs, including the Outstanding Young Talent of Tianjin, Tier 1 of the Tianjin 131 Talent Program, Nankai University's 100 Leading Young Discipline Leaders, and the Suzhou Leading Entrepreneurial Talent Program.Professor Duan closely aligns his research direction with national strategic needs. While conducting research in brain science and robotics, he emphasizes practical applications from fields such as rehabilitation medical engineering and advanced manufacturing. His work explores the integration of biological, mechanical, and electrical systems in robotics, aiming to advance the integration of industry, academia, and research. This approach ensures that his research better serves society.

Prof. Guangyu Zhu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

IEEE Member

Guangyu Zhu (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2004. He was a Visiting Scholar with MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Big Data Application Technologies for Comprehensive Transport, Beijing Jiaotong University. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, risk analysis and the intelligent emergency of urban rail transit, and complex network applications.

Prof. Song Zhu, China University of Mining and Technology, China

Professor Song Zhu obtained his Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2010. He has received the Third Prize of Natural Science from Hubei Province (2nd out of 4 recipients) and the Science and Technology Award from the Jiangsu Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society.He has led over 10 research projects, including key projects and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 100 SCI academic papers in prestigious international journals such as IEEE Transactions and Science China, with over 30 of these papers having an impact factor greater than 10.From 2017 to 2022, he was seconded to the Department of Information Science at the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research interests include stability theory of stochastic systems, dynamics of neural networks, memristors, and fluid networks.