Conference Honoary Chairs
| Professor Xinghuo Yu, IEEE Fellow, RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Australia Distinguished Professor Xinghuo Yu is an Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the Chair of RMIT Professorial Academy at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia. He is also a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow in the School of Engineering. He was the President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for 2018 and 2019.
He started his academic career in 1989 as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. In 1991, he joined Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, where, before he left in 2002, he was Professor of Intelligent Systems and Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Informatics & Communication. Since 2002, he has been with RMIT University, where he has occupied various senior academic and administrative positions such as Full Professor, Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean, Institute Director, and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
He has published extensively in Control Systems, Intelligent and Complex Systems, and Power and Energy Systems. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2015-2022 consecutively. He received many awards and honours for his contributions, including the 2013 Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the 2018 M A Sargent Medal of Engineers Australia, and the 2018 Australasian AI Distinguished Research Contribution Award of Australian Computer Society. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Fellow of the IEEE, Australian Computer Society, and Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also an Engineering Executive and a Chartered Professional Engineer of Engineers Australia. |
| Professor Wen-Hua Chen, IEEE Fellow, Loughborough University, UK Wen-Hua Chen (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively.,From 1991 to 1996, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Automatic Control, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He held a research position and then a lectureship in control engineering with the Centre for Systems and Control, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., from 1997 to 2000. He is currently a Professor in Autonomous Vehicles with the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K. He has authored or coauthored three books and 250 papers in journals and conferences. His research interests include the development of advanced control strategies and their applications in aerospace engineering, particularly in unmanned aircraft systems.,Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was a recipient of the EPSRC Established Career Fellowship Award. |
Conference General Chairs
| Professor Liang Hu, Tongji University, China Dr Liang Hu is a professor with Tongi University and also the Chief Al Scientist with DeepBlue Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include recommender systems, machine leaming, data science and general intelligence. He has published a number of papers in top rank interational conferences and journals, including WWW, IJCAI, AAAL, ICDM, TOIS, TKDE, TNNLS. He has been invited as the program commitee members of more than 30 top-rank Al interational conferences, including AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, CIKM, and KDD. He also serves as the reviewer of more than ten top-rank interational journals, including ACM CSUR, IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, IEEE TPAMl, etc. In addition,he has presented more than ten tutorials on recommender systems and machine leaing at top-rank Al conferences including IJCAl, AAAl, SIGIR, WWW and ICDM. |
 | Professor Zhe Chen, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Aalborg University, Denmark Dr Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Power and Control, from University of Durham, England, he has been a full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2002. |
 | Professor Giuseppe Buja, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Padova, Italy Giuseppe Buja (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea degree (Hons.) in power electronics engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1970.,He is currently a Senior Scholar with the University of Padova. He has carried out a pioneering research work in the field of power and industrial electronics, originating the modulating-wave distortion for pulsewidth modulation inverters, initiating the application of digital signal processors to the control systems of power electronics converters, conceiving cutting-edge techniques for the control of electric drives, and advancing the design of powertrain and charging systems for electric vehicles. His current technical interest is on the deployment of sustainable electric grids.,Prof. Buja is a member of the Steering/Technical Committee of International Conferences, the Editorial Board of Scientific Journals, and a Senior Member of the Administrative Committee of the IES. He received the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award “in recognition of his outstanding technical contributions to the field of industrial electronics,” and the 2016 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He has served the IEEE in several capacities, including as the General Chair of the 20th Annual Conference of the IES (IECON) in 1994.(Based on document published on 22 February 2024). |
Publication Chairs
| Professor Ahmad Lotfi, IEEE Senior Member, Nottingham Trent University, UK Ahmad Lotfi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in control systems from the Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, the M.Tech. degree in control systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and the Ph.D. degree in learning fuzzy systems from The University of Queensland, Australia, in 1995. He is currently a Professor of computational intelligence with Nottingham Trent University, where he is leading the research group in computational intelligence and applications. He has authored and coauthored over 200 scientific papers in the area of computational intelligence, the Internet of Things, abnormal behavior recognition, and ambient intelligence in highly prestigious journals and international conferences. He received external funding from Innovate UK, EU, and industrial companies to support his research. His research interest includes the identification of progressive changes in behavior of older individuals suffering from dementia or any other cognitive impairments. Accurate identification of progressive changes through utilization of unobtrusive sensor network or robotics platform will enable carers (formal and informal) to intervene when deemed necessary. Research collaboration is established with world-leading researchers. He has involved in collaboration with many healthcare commercial organizations and end-users. He has been invited as an expert evaluator and a panel member of many European and international research programs. |
 | Professor Sumeet S. Aphale, IEEE Senior Member, University of Aberdeen, UK I am the Founder and Director of the Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Group (ARMS). I specialize in the expansive realms of Robotics, Mechatronics, and Applied Control. My passion lies in the creation, experimentation, measurement, and enhancement of novel system designs, sensing strategies, and control algorithms. These innovations consistently result in significant performance advancements across diverse technology-driven domains, including parallel manipulators, flexible and soft robots, scanning probe microscopes, nanopositioning devices, biomedical systems, smart structures, precise multi-system alignment, drill-strings, and optical focusing equipment, among others. My approach revolves around the development of straightforward, practical, and implementable solutions for seemingly intricate challenges. I actively seek opportunities for both industrial and academic collaborations, aiming to enrich, facilitate, and advance my research. As a Chartered Engineer, I've leveraged my expertise through various consultancies, collaborating with high-tech and Oil and Gas companies to foster technology development and seamless knowledge transfer. |
 | Professor Maki Habib, Co-founder of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society-Egypt Chapter, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Maki Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (DES) in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics from the University of Tsukuba in 1990, Japan. He was a selected research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB), Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA for engineering projects and industrial consultation, Malaysia. He was a leading senior research scientist with GMD-Japan, Japan leading Telecooperation research group. Associate Professor with Monash University (Australia/Malaysia), he developed and led the Mechatronics Engineering program. He was appointed as a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University (Australia/Malaysia). Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, South Korea, Residing Professor at Saga University, Japan, and since Sept. 2007 he is a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. Habib was a visiting professor (short term) at many Universities around the world, such as, Nagasaki University-Japan, Hokkoido University-Japan, Orebro University – Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Norway, etc. Habib served as a consultant and Technical advisor to well-known international companies including Toyota group and ABB. |
 | Professor Lounis Adouane, IEEE RAS Member, Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France Lounis Adouane (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the FEMTO-ST Laboratory, ENSMM, France, in 2005, and the H.D.R. (habilitation to steer research in robotics) degree from Blaise Pascal University, in 2015. During his Ph.D. studies, he deeply investigated the field of mobile multi robot systems, especially those related to bottom-up and decentralized control architectures. In 2005, he joined the Ampere Laboratory, INSA Lyon, and he studied hybrid (continuous/discrete) control architectures applied to cooperative mobile robots arms. From 2006 to 2019, he was an Associate Professor with the Institut Pascal, Polytech Clermont-Ferrand. He is currently a Full Professor with the Heudiasyc, UMR 7253 CNRS/Universite de Technologie de Compiegne. From 2018 to 2019, he was the Head of ISPR Group (Images, Perception Systems and Robotics, 80 members), Institut Pascal. Since 2018, he is a member of the Technical Committee of IFAC–Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles and serves in the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. He had the opportunity to visit during few months several institutions/laboratories, such as in 2009 LIST (Luxembourg), in 2014 Cranfield and Kingston universities (U.K), and in 2018 KIT (Germany). He is the author/coauthor of more than 100 refereed international articles and two books. His main research interests include planning and control of mobile robots/intelligent vehicles (autonomous and clean), decision-making under uncertainty, hybrid (continuous/discrete) and hybrid (reactive/cognitive) multi controller architectures, Lyapunov-based synthesis and stability, cooperative multi robot systems, artificial intelligence (e.g., MDP or MAS approaches), and energy management (e.g., optimal control or neuro-fuzzy approaches). |
 | Professor Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, IEEE RAS Member, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Caracal, Romania. He received the M.S. degree in applied electronics and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control systems from Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania, in 1977 and 1999, respectively.,Since 1984, he has been with the Automation and Applied Informatics Department, Politehnica University Timisoara, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 80 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests include advanced control of ac drives, sensorless control, observers, sliding-mode control, power electronics control, mechatronic systems, and real-time implementations.,Dr. Andreescu is a member of the Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronics Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and has been a member of the Engineering Sciences Commission of the National University Research Council. |
Technical Program Committee Chairs
| Professor Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE Fellow, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Currently, she is IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. Her research interests include management and modeling of transportation, logistics and manufacturing systems; discrete event systems; Petri nets; consensus protocols; fault detection. Prof. Fanti has published more than 335 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. She was senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and she is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was member at large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and currently she is member of the AdCom of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference. |
| Professor Rui Fan, IEEE RAS Senior Member, Tongji University, China Rui Fan received the B.Eng. degree in Automation from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree (supervisors: Prof. John G. Rarity and Prof. Naim Dahnoun) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2018. He worked as a Research Associate (supervisor: Prof. Ming Liu) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2018 to 2020 and a Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee (supervisors: Prof. Linda M. Zangwill and Prof. David J. Kriegman) at the University of California San Diego between 2020 and 2021. Rui began his faculty career as a Full Research Professor with the College of Electronics & Information Engineering at Tongji University in 2021, and was then promoted to a Full Professor in the same college, as well as at the Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems in 2022. Rui served as an associate editor of ICRA'23 and IROS'23, and as a senior program committee member of AAAI'23/24. Rui is the general chair of the AVVision community and organized several impactful workshops and special sessions in conjunction with WACV'21, ICIP'21/22/23, ICCV'21, and ECCV'22. Rui was named in the Stanford University List of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in 2022 and 2023, as well as in the Forbes China List of 100 Outstanding Overseas Returnees in 2023. Rui's research interests include computer vision, deep learning, and robotics. |
| Professor Jian Cao, IEEE Senior Member, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Prof. Jian Cao is currently a tenured professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also the director of research institute of network computing and service computing. Prof. Cao's research interests include intelligent data analytics, service computing, collaborative computing and software engineering. Besides national and provincial government research grants, his research is also supported by many industry partners. He has published more than 300 research papers in prestigious journals and conferences. Prof. Cao has won 10 ministerial or provincial level scientific and technological achievements rewards. Currently, he is the distinguished member of CCF and the senior member of IEEE. |
 | Professor Chun-Yi Su, IEEE Senior Member, RAS Distinguished Lectuer, Concordia University, Canada Chun-Yi Su (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from the South China University of Technology, Guangdong, China, in 1990.,After a seven-year stint with the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, he joined Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1998, where he is currently a Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Control. He has also held several short-time visiting positions, including the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship by China’s Ministry of Education and JSPS Invitation Fellowship from Japan. He has authored or coauthored over 300 publications, which have appeared in journals, as book chapters and in conference proceedings. His research covers control theory and its applications to various mechanical systems, with a recent focus on control of systems involving hysteresis nonlinearities.,Prof. Su has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He has been on the editorial board of 18 journals, including IFAC’s Mechatronics. He has also been an organizing committee member many conferences.(Based on document published on 13 May 2020). |
 | Professor Huosheng Hu, IEEE Senior Member, RAS TC on Networked Robots, University of Essex, UK Huosheng Hu is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, U.K., where he leads the Robotics Research Group. He has authored over 500 papers. His research interests include robotics, human–robot interaction, mechatronics, embedded systems, and cloud computing.,Prof. Hu is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Measurement and Control. He has been the Program Chair for many IEEE international conferences, such as IEEE ICRA, IROS, ICMA, and ROBIO. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Automation and Computing and Robotics journal (MDPI) and an Executive Editor for the International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation. |
 | Professor Reggie Davidrajuh, IEEE Senior Member, The University of Stavanger, Norway Reggie Davidrajuh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in control systems engineering and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in 1993 and 2001, respectively, and the D.Sc. (Dr hab) degree in informatics from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, in 2016. He is currently a Professor of informatics with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. His current research interests include discrete-event systems, Petri nets, and graph algorithms. |
Organizing Committee Chairs
| Professor Cairong Zhao, Tongji University, China Cairong Zhao is currently a Professor of College of Electronic and Information Engineering at Tongji University. He received a Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, an M.S. degree from Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. degree from Jilin University, in 2011, 2006 and 2003, respectively. He works on visual and intelligent learning, including computer vision, pattern recognition and visual surveillance. He has authored more than 40 journal and conference papers in these areas. |
 | Lecturer Nengjun Zhu, Shanghai University, China Dr. Nengjun Zhu is currently with the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University. He is a master supervisor, CCF TCCC Executive Member, and PRIJCAI 2022 Local Chair. He received a bachelor degree from Sichuan University and a Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Nengjun Zhu has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a reseracher at Baidu Reserach. His research interests include recommender systems, data mining, and decision support systems. |
Technical Program Committee Members
Prof. Xiaodi Li, Shandong Normal University, China
Prof. D. Chimgee, National University of Mongolia, Mongolia
Prof. Ahrar Husain, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
Prof. Kuo-Chin Fan, National Central University,Taiwan, China
Prof. David Carabias Galindo, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Prof. George Carutasu, Romanian American University, Romania
Prof. Koh Kakusho, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan
Prof. Bin Zi, Hefei University of Technology, China
Prof. Ramlee Mustapha, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia
Prof. S.M.F.D Syed Mustapha, Taif University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Uday Gaitonde, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Prof. Suzaimah Ramli, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Malaysia
Lecturer Peng Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Dr. J. Vicheanpanya, Rangsit University, Thailand
Dr. Peng-Chun Lin, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, China
Dr. Samuel Lukas, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
Organizing Committee Members
Prof. Wenpeng Lu, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), China
Dr. Shoujin Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Usman Naseem, James Cook University, Australia
Dr. Can Wang, Griffith University, Australia
Dr. Qi Zhang, Tongji University, China
Dr. Zhong Yuan Lai, DeepVerse, China
Dr. Dingyu Yang, Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Longxiang Shi, Zhejiang University City College, China
Dr. Jinjin Guo, JD Intelligent Cites Research, China
Dr. Sheng Luo, Shanghai Polytechnic University, China
Dr. Shanshan Feng, Shangdong Normal University, China