Lianqing Liu, Professor 刘连庆 研究员

Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所（副所长）

Biography: Lianqing Liu is a Professor at Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently his research interests include Biosyncretic systems, Micro/Nanorobotics, Intelligent control. He has published over 100 peer reviewed international journal papers and led more than 20 funded research projects as Principal Investigator. He was awarded the Early Career Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2011, Outstanding Young Scientist of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014, Rising Star Award of 3M-Nano Society in 2015, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund of NSFC in 2015, National Program for support of Top-Notch Young Professionals in 2015, Xiongyoulun Outstanding Youth Award in 2018, NSFC National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund in 2019, Xplore Prize in 2024, NSFC Outstanding Youth Fund Continuation Project in 2025. He is the winner of Best Student/Conference paper Award for ICRA, IROS, ROBIO, ICIRA, IEEE-NEMS, IEEE-CYBER, IEEE-NANOMED and IEEE-3M-NANO, and delivered plenary/Keynote talks at ICRA, IROS, IEEE-NANO, IEEE-NANOMED, IEEE-NEMS, ICIUS, MARSS and so on. He is associate editors of Fundamental Research, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Cyborg and Bionic Systems, Mechatronics, IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, Control Theory and Applications. He has been elected as the vice president of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the term of 2018-2019, served as a member of long range planning committee of RAS.

Yuxin Zhao, Professor 赵玉新 教授

Harbin Engineering University, China 哈尔滨工程大学（党委常委、副校长）

Biography: Zhao Yuxin (IET Fellow), the vice-president of Harbin Engineering University (HEU), and a professor with the College of Intelligent System Science and Engineering of HEU. He serves as the Director of the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for "Navigation Instruments". His research interests include underwater navigation and AI based marine navigation systems. He has received the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the Hooi Ying Tung Education Award, and the Special Government Allowance from the State Council. He has won four first prizes for provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress. He has also received the National Second Prize for Teaching Achievement.

Wenwu Yu, Professor 虞文武 教授

Southeast University, China 东南大学（数学学院院长）

Biography: Wenwu Yu received the B.Sc. degree in information and computing science and M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2010. Currently, he is the Dean in the School of Mathematics. He is also a Full Professor with the Endowed Chair Honor in Southeast University, China.
Professor Yu is also the Executive Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence, the Vice Director of the Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Ministry of Education of China, the Head of the Information Mathematics Discipline in the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals, Purple Mountain Laboratories, the Executive Director of the Jiangsu National Center of Applied Mathematics in Southeast University, and the Huawei-Southeast University Networked Collective Intelligence Joint Innovation Lab.
Dr. Yu held several visiting positions in Australia, China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the USA. His research interests include multi-agent systems, complex networks and systems, disturbance control, distributed optimization, machine learning, game theory, cyberspace security, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, big-data analysis, etc.
Dr. Yu severs as an Editorial Board Member of several flag journals, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Trans. Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Science China Information Sciences, Science China Technological Sciences, etc. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Complex Engineering Systems.
He was listed by Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering in 2014-2024. He publishes about 100 IEEE Transactions journal papers with more than 30,000 citations. Moreover, Dr. Yu is also the recipient of the Second Prize of State Natural Science Award of China in 2016. He is also the Cheung Kong Scholars Programmer of Ministry of Education of China (Artificial Intelligence).

Yang Tang, Professor 唐漾 教授

Eastern China University of Science and Technology, China 华东理工大学（信息科学与工程学院 副院长）

Biography: Tang Yang is an IEEE Fellow and has been recognized as a national high-level talent (2019), a leading scientific and technological innovation figure by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a national high-level youth talent (2014). He is also an awardee of the Shanghai Academic Leadership Program and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship in Germany. His research focuses on intelligent unmanned systems, multi-agent systems, industrial intelligence, embodied intelligence, and bioinformatics. He has published over 200 papers in prestigious journals, including Naturesister journals, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions (with more than 180 papers in IEEE Transactions and CCF-A ranked publications), and has applied for/publicly disclosed/been granted more than 20 patents. He has led key projects and research initiatives under the National Key R&D Program of China and multiple key-class projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as a Senior Field Editor for IEEE TCASI, and as an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for several international journals, including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TII, IEEE/ASME TMECH, IEEE TCDS, IEEE TETCI, IEEE SJ, EAAI (IFAC Journal), as well as domestic journals such as Scientia Sinica Informationsand Acta Automatica Sinica. In 2019, he received the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (as the first completer).