| Prof. Yajing ShenThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China Yajing Shen received his B.S. (2005) and M.S. (2008) degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. degree (2012) from Nagoya University, respectively. Prior to joining HKUST, he served as an Assistant and later Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong (2013-2022). His research interests lie is robotics and their applications, particularly in biomedical engineering and human-robot interaction. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in top multidisciplinary journal (e.g., Science Robotics, Science Advance, Nature Communications, PNAS), leading specialized journal (e.g., IEEE Trans on Robotics), and premier international conferences (e.g., ICRA, IROS), with widely featured by international media outlets, such as Associated Press, Thomson Reuters, and CCTV, etc. He served as an Associate Editor of the flagship robotic journal IEEE Trans on Robotics (2019-2022). He is a recipient of the Best Manipulation Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award, the Big-on-Small Award at MARSS, the Early Career Awards of Hong Kong UGC, the “National Excellent Young Scientist (Hong Kong & Macau)”, the Hong Kong Young Entrepreneurial Scientist, etc. |
| Prof. Zhixin YangUniversity of Macau, Macau, China Prof. Yang’s work focuses on prognostic health monitoring, robot, and artificial intelligence based safety monitoring for smart city. Fundamental research studies data driven condition monitoring of electromechanical equipment in IoTs environment with focus on optimal diverse signals acquisition and intelligent pattern recognition methodologies. Critical research of robot includes multi-modal based 3D shape recognition, and precise & agile robot control for safety monitoring. |
| Prof. Jianqiang LiShenzhen University, China Li Jianqiang, Ph.D., professor, doctoral supervisor, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, IET Fellow, executive director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Big Data System Computing Technology, vice president of the School of Computer Software of Shenzhen University, director of the Institute of Network and Information Security, chief scientist of the national key R&D program, national-level young talent, director of the Guangdong Big Data Analysis Engineering Technology Research Center, winner of the Guangdong Outstanding Young Scholars Fund, and head of the artificial intelligence teaching team in Guangdong Province, was selected as "Shenzhen University" in 2016. For many years, he has been engaged in the research of artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things and mobile medical care. |
| Prof. Xin XuNational University of Defense Technology, China Deputy director of the Adaptive Dynamic Planning and Reinforcement Learning Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, and advisory member of the Robot Intelligence Professional Committee. He is mainly engaged in the search of autonomous control and machine learning of intelligent unmanned systems, and has won 1 second prize of National Natural Science, 2 first prize of Hunan Natural Science, and 1 prize of Hunan Science and Technology Innovation Team. He has presided over more than 20 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and national key research and development plan. He has published 2 monographs and more than 100 SCI papers. Representative papers have been published in IEEE TNNLS, J. Al Research, J of Field Robotics, Automatica, IEEE TSMC: Systems, IEEE TPAMI and other journals as well as CVPR, ICRA and other international conferences. IEEE Transactions on SMC: Associate Editor of international journals such as Systems, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Associate Editor of CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology and editorial Board member of Control Theory and Applications. |
