Prof. Shihua Li

Southeast University

Prof. Shihua Li, Chief Professor and PhD Supervisor, Dean of the School of Automation, Southeast University; Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province; IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Fellow of Asia‑Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He serves as Executive Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Chair of IEEE Nanjing Section, Chairman of Jiangsu Association of Automation, and Council Member of the Chinese Association of Automation. He is the Chief Scientist of National Key R&D Program of China and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

His long‑term research focuses on control theory and its applications for electromechanical systems. Targeting multi‑source disturbances and uncertainties in diverse electromechanical systems, he conducts research on anti‑disturbance control from the perspectives of feedback suppression and feedforward compensation. He has systematically addressed a series of fundamental theoretical problems in non‑smooth‑feedback‑based anti‑disturbance control and disturbance‑estimation‑based feedforward compensation control. His theoretical achievements have been successfully applied to general servo systems, special‑purpose servo systems, automotive engine electronic control systems (throttle valves, fuel actuators), gas water heater systems and other practical platforms. He has led more than 40 research projects and achieved remarkable social and economic benefits. He has authored 3 monographs in Chinese and English, and published over 300 SCI journal papers, among which 156 papers are published in top‑tier international journals including IEEE Transactions and Automatica. He currently holds editorial board positions for multiple prestigious international journals, such as IEEE Industrial Electronics Society,IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,IET Control Theory & Applications, andIET Power Electronics. His research honors include the Gold Medal of Geneva International Invention Exhibition (2022), the First Prize (2022) and Second Prize (2014) of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China, the 6th Nagamori Award (one of six global recipients and the sole awardee from China in this round), and Huawei Spark Award (2023). He has won 3 best‑paper awards from international and domestic journals, and 10 best‑paper awards at academic conferences. His Google Scholar citations exceed 37 000. He was consecutively listed in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers from 2017 to 2024 (8 consecutive years), and selected as Elsevier Chinese Highly Cited Researchers from 2015 to 2024 (10 consecutive years).

Prof. Guangchen Wang

Shandong University, China

Guangchen Wang is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He is Young Scholar of Chang‑Jiang Scholars Program, recipient of NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, Shandong Outstanding Youth Fund, and New Century Excellent Talents of MOE. He also received the 10th Shandong Youth Science and Technology Award. His research interests cover stochastic control, stochastic filtering, differential games and financial engineering. He has presided over multiple national and provincial research projects including NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund and General Program. He has published papers in journals such as IEEE TAC, Automatica and SIAM JCO. He serves as editorial board member for Control and Decision, Journal of Systems Science and Mathematics, and committee member of TCCT, Chinese Association of Automation.

Prof. Jizhou Lai

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Jizhou Lai is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Deputy Director of MIIT Key Laboratory. He is selected for Jiangsu "333 Project" (Level‑2), CAAC Top‑notch Innovation Talent and Jiangsu "Six Talent Peaks" Program. His research focuses on autonomous navigation and intelligent perception for unmanned systems. He has led research projects including NSFC programs, national key R&D tasks and national defense projects. He has published more than 110 papers and holds 61 authorized Chinese invention patents. As the first completer, he has received multiple provincial‑ministerial awards including the First‑class Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress. He serves as council member of Chinese Society of Inertial Technology and holds other academic society positions, and has supervised students winning national innovation competition awards.

Prof. Qiang Chen

Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Qiang Chen is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Zhejiang University of Technology, recipient of NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He is Special‑Appointed Vice‑Dean of Graduate School and Director of Provincial‑level Experimental Teaching Center for Electronic Information. His research interests include intelligent adaptive control for electromechanical systems, data‑driven control and magnetically‑actuated capsule robot control. He has hosted 4 NSFC projects and 2 key projects of Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation. He has published two English monographs and over 100 papers with multiple ESI highly‑cited papers, and holds more than 60 authorized invention patents. He has received awards including Gold Medal of Geneva International Invention Exhibition and Second Prize of Wu Wen‑Jun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award. He serves as committee member of multiple academic societies and editorial board member / guest editor for several journals.