| Prof. Ren C. Luo, Taiwan University (Taiwan, China)IEEE Fellow;Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan University (Taiwan, China); Director, International Center of Excellence on Intelligent Robotics and Automation Research Prof. Luo has conducted teaching and research in the area of Intelligent Robotics and Automation for more than twenty years including in Germany, Japan, USA and Taiwan, China. His research covers both theoretical aspects and practical applications,for example, robotics motion planning,3D robot vision,visual controlled object detection (e.g. obstacles, human body and human face etc.), tracking and recognition. Prof.Luo has published more than 450 refereed papers and more than 20 patents from USA and Taiwan, China. His research interests are summarized as follows: (1) Sensor-controlled Intelligent Robot system--- Medical Robot( e.g. surgical robotics,minimum invasive surgery etc.), Service Robot, Autonomous Mobile Robot, Humanoid Robot, Security Robot, Home Education and Entertainment Companion Robot; (2) Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems; (3) Visual Servo Feedback Control Systems; (4) 3D printing and Rapid Prototyping for Advanced Manufacturing Automation Systems; (5) Intelligent Mechatronics Systems. |
| Prof. Youmin Zhang, Concordia University, CanadaFellow IEEE, Fellow CSME Youmin Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1995, respectively.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He has authored ten books and more than 700 journal and conference papers with high citations and high rankings at Google Scholar and ScholarGPS. His current research interests include fault/attack diagnosis, fault-tolerant and attack-resilient control, cooperative guidance, navigation, control, remote sensing, and imaging processing for unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles with applications to forest fire monitoring and fighting, renewable energies, smart grids, and smart cities under the framework of cyber–physical systems.,Dr. Zhang is a registered Professional Engineer in ON, Canada, a fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), and a member of the Technical Committee for several scientific societies. He has been consistently listed in Stanford’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” since 2020 for both “Career” and “Single Year” and selected as a 2025 “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate. He has served as the (Honorary) General Chair, the Program Chair, and an IPC Member of several autonomous/unmanned systems and renewable energies relevant international conferences. He served as the President of the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ISIUS), from 2019 to 2022. He is currently the International Director (Region 7) of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS). He is an Editorial Board Member, an Associate/Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and an Editor/Associate Editor of more than 20 international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Guidance Navigation and Control, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Unmanned Systems, Drones, Drone Systems and Applications, and Security and Safety.
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| Prof. Houxiang Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayInstitute Leader for Research; IEEE Senior Member Houxiang Zhang received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in 2003. From 2004, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS), Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany. In Feb. 2011, he finished the Habilitation on Informatics at University of Hamburg. Dr. Zhang joined the NTNU, Norway in April 2011 where he is a Professor on Mechatronics. From 2011-2016, he hold a gift professorship on product and system design from the industry too. The focus of his research lies on two areas. One is on biological robots and modular robotics. The second focus is on virtual prototyping and maritime mechatronics. In these areas, he has published over 300 journal and conference papers and book chapters as author or co-author. Recently, he received four best paper awards at the Robotic conferences, and four finalist awards for best conference paper at IEEE Robotics and Automation conferences.
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| Prof. Honghai Liu, Southeast UniversityEuropean Academy of Sciences (MAE), IEEE/IET Fellow Professor Honghai Liu received his Ph.D. in Intelligent Robotics from the University of London, UK. He is currently a Chair Professor at Southeast University, a member of the European Academy of Sciences (MAE), and an IEEE/IET Fellow. He has long been engaged in research on brain-computer interaction, bionic intelligence, theory of medical robotic assistance systems, and their applications in brain diseases. He has led and participated in projects including the National Key R&D Program of China, key projects and innovation groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research achievements have been successfully applied in the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases such as stroke and autism, as well as in online fault diagnosis for Mars exploration robots. He has published over 400 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings. He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, among other journals. |
