Speakers

Prof. Derong Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Member of the Academia Europaea, IEEE Fellow

Derong Liu received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA, in 1994. He became a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. He was selected for the “100 Talents Program” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and he served as the Associate Director of The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation, from 2010 to 2016. He has published 13 books. He received the International Neural Network Society’s Gabor Award in 2018 and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Network Pioneer Award in 2022. He has been named a highly cited researcher by Clarivate since 2017. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2010 to 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the International Neural Network Society, a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition, and a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). 

Prof. Xin Xu, National University of Defense Technology, China

Recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund

Xu Xin was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Fok Ying-tung Young Teachers Fund, and was selected as an outstanding talent support program in the new century. He is mainly engaged in the research on autonomous control and machine learning of intelligent unmanned systems, and won one second prize of National Natural Science, two first prizes of Hunan Natural Science and one prize of Hunan Science and Technology Innovation Team. He presided over more than 20 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, national key R&D plan projects, 973 projects and equipment pre-research projects. He served as deputy director of the Professional Committee of Adaptive Dynamic Planning and Reinforcement Learning of China Automation Society, deputy director of the Professional Committee of Parallel Control and Management, advisory member of the Professional Committee of Robot Intelligence, and deputy director of the Professional Committee of Unmanned Systems of China Command and Control Society. He has published 2 monographs and more than 100 SCI papers. Representative papers have been published in IEEE TNNLS, J.AI Research, J of filed robotics, IEEE T-SMC: Systems, IEEE TP AMI, IEEE TCST and other journals.

Prof. Zhigang Zeng, University of California, Davis

Recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund

Zhigang Zeng is a Professor and the Dean of School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. He has over 20 years of experience in teaching and research of system synthesis and analysis, and was awarded by the IEEE Fellow Membership Grade for contributions to analysis and synthesis of neurodynamic systems. His current research interests include theory of functional differential equations and differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides, and their applications to dynamics of neural networks, memristive systems, and control systems. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers published in leading journals. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science listed by Clarivate Analytics. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and a member of the Editorial Board of Neural Networks, Cognitive Computation, and Applied Soft Computing. He has been the General Chair, Program Committee Chair, Publications Chair, and Workshop and Special Sessions Chair for over 40 international conferences.

Prof. Yi Yang, Zhejiang University, China

Yang Yi is currently the vice president of Computer College of Zhejiang University, the director of Microsoft-Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Visual Perception, and the deputy director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Artificial Intelligence. The main research direction is artificial intelligence and its application. The paper Google Scholar cited more than 70,000 times, H-index 131, and was selected as a global highly cited scholar of Clarivate Analytics in recent six years. He has won many international awards in AI field, such as National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of the Ministry of Education, Youth Research Career Award of Australian Foundation Committee, Subversive Innovation Gold Award of Australian Computer Society, Google Scholar Research Award, Lifetime Achievement Award of Australian Scientific Research, Amazon Machine Learning Research Award, AAAI's most influential paper, ACMM's only best paper award, and more than 20 world champions in international scientific research competitions.