Speakers

IEEE Senior Member

Anhui Polytechnic University, China

Dr. Gu Zhou, born in August 1973, is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He is an academic leader of Jiangsu Province's "Green and Blue Project" , a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE EPS Committee, a member of Cloud Control and Decision Making Committee, a member of Network Science and Engineering Committee, etc. He was awarded the third prize of Henan Science and Technology Award in 2023 (Natural Science category). He was awarded the Third Prize of Henan Provincial Science and Technology Award (Natural Science) in 2023. In recent years, he has published in Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man Cybernetics-Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Information Sciences. His papers published in IEEE Systems Journal have won the Best Paper Awards in 2022 from IEEE Systems Council, and he has been selected as one of the top 2% scientists in the world in 2023 by Stanford University. He has been selected as one of the "Top 2% Scientists in the World" by Stanford University in 2023.

Prof. Xiangpeng Xie
IEEE Senior Member
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Jie Xiangpeng, a professor and Ph.D. supervisor from Weifang, Shandong, earned his doctorate from Northeastern University in 2010. He has received prestigious funding, including the National Natural Science Foundation's Outstanding Young Fund and the Provincial Outstanding Young Fund, and is recognized in talent programs such as Jiangsu's "333 Project," Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications' 1311 Talent Program, and the Huali Innovation Talent Program. As vice dean of the School of Internet of Things and a senior member of IEEE/CAAI/CAA, he has directed over 20 research projects and won numerous awards, including top prizes from the Chinese Association of Automation and the China Simulation Society, a Shanghai Science and Technology Award, and the 2016 Most Influential International Paper Award. He also secured first place in the 18th "Challenge Cup" competition and was named among the "Top Ten Excellent Graduate Student Instructors" at his university. Xiangpeng has been honored with teaching and research awards and has been listed as a Clarivate Analytics ESI Highly Cited Researcher from 2020 to 2023.

Anhui University of Technology, China

Professor Hao Shen, Ph.D. Supervisor, Young Yangtze River Scholar (MOE), Dean of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Director of the Anhui Industrial Enterprise Intelligentization Industrial Generic Technology Research Center, Deputy Director of the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Special Heavy-duty Robots, and Deputy Director of the Anhui International Joint Research Center for Metallurgical Process and Systems Science. He has been named a Global Highly Cited Researcher by ESI for four consecutive years and an Elsevier-China Highly Cited Scholar for three consecutive years. Awardee of the Anhui Provincial Outstanding Youth Program for Universities, with 13,425 Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 68. His research achievements have received six provincial/ministerial-level science and technology awards at the second prize level or higher from Anhui, Shanghai, Henan, and the Chinese Association of Automation (including the 2021 Anhui Provincial Natural Science First Prize as the first completer). Additionally, he holds honors such as the National Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award, Anhui Provincial High-Level Supervisor, and Anhui Provincial Teaching Excellence Award.

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Prof. Jiahu Qin, Ph.D. Supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China, recipient of the Young Talent Program of the Overseas High-Level Youth Introduction Project, National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation Young Teacher Fund, and the Chinese Association of Automation "Young Scientist Award". Elsevier-China Highly Cited Scholar (2020-2022). Awarded the Natural Science First Prize by the Chinese Association of Automation (1st rank), Natural Science First Prize of Heilongjiang Province (3rd rank), Chinese Academy of Sciences "Outstanding Supervisor Award", Guan Zhao-Zhi Award at the Chinese Control Conference, and IEEE IES Best Conference Paper Award. His primary research focuses on collaboration, optimization, and decision-making in autonomous intelligent systems, with two English monographs published by Springer and over 80 papers in flagship journals including Automatica and IEEE Transactions. Currently serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Association of Automation, Vice Chairman of Anhui Robotics Society, Chairman of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control and Systems (CICC), Vice Chairman of the Youth Working Committee (CAA), Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee on Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent IoT Systems (CSF), and Editorial Board Member for Automatica, IEEE TIE, IEEE TCNS, Acta Automatica Sinica, and Journal of Intelligent Science and Technology.