2023 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker Ⅰ

Prof. Shuzhi Sam Ge

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Fellow of IFAC, IET, and Singapore Academy of Engineering (SAEng)

Brief Introduction to Prof. Shuzhi Sam Ge:  

Professor Shuzhi Sam Ge is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and serves as a faculty member of NUS Graduate School (NGS) Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP), The National University of Singapore. He has served/been serving as an Associate Editor for a number of flagship journals. He also serves as a book Editor of the Taylor & Francis Automation and Control Engineering Series. He has (co)-authored 8 research monographs, edited 5 booked, and over 600 international journal, conference papers and book chapters. At IEEE Control Systems Society, he served as Vice President for Technical Activities, 2009-2010, Vice President of Membership Activities, 2011-2012, Member of Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007-2009. At IFAC, he serves as Vice-Chair, Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence in Control, IFAC, 2014-Present. He serves as a member of the Steering Committee of Asian Control Association (ACA), 2020-Present. He serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer Nature, 2008-present. He is a Fellow of IFAC, IET, and Singapore Academy of Engineering (SAEng). He is Clarivate Analytics high-cited scientist, 2016-2021, He was the recipient of Distinguished Member Award, IEEE CSS, 2013, Inaugural Temasek Young Investigator Award, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore, 2002; and National Technology Award of the National Science & Technology Board, Singapore,1999. He has started to companies to commercially successfully. His current research interests include intelligent control, robotics, artificial intelligence, and material robotics.

Keynote Speaker Ⅱ

Prof. Yongchun Fang

Nankai University, China

Brief Introduction to Prof. Yongchun Fang:  

Dr. Yongchun Fang is a distinguished professor, also the vice dean of the Graduate School of Nankai Univeristy. Dr. Fang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in control theory and application, both from Zhejiang University, P. R. China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University, SC, USA in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Cornell University. Since 2003, he has been a professor at the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China. Dr. Fang's research interests include underactuated systems control, visual servoing, AFM-based nano-manipulation, and so on. He won the very prestigious “National Distinguished Young Scholars” Award from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2013. He is also an Awardee of Tianjin Youth Leaders in Technological Innovation (2014), and an awardee of the 10th young scientist award of Tianjin. His research has been well supported by National Science Foundation of China and other Chinese government funding, such as the well-known National High Technology Research and Development Program (“863” Program), the National Science and Technology Pillar Program, and so on, with a total amount of about 19M RMB within the recent 5 years. During the past 5 years, he has many papers published in prestigious international journals, including more than 20 papers published by IEEE Transactions. His work in underactuated overhead crane, visual servoing, and so on, has been well cited around the world.

Keynote Speaker Ⅲ

Prof. Junzhi Yu

Peking University, China

Brief Introduction to Prof. Junzhi Yu: 

Junzhi Yu (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in safety engineering and the M.E. degree in precision instruments and mechanology from the North University of China, Taiyuan, China, in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2003. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Center for Systems and Control, Peking University, Beijing. In 2006, he joined the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as an Associate Professor, where he was a Full Professor in 2012. In 2018, he joined the College of Engineering, Peking University, as a Tenured Full Professor. His current research interests include intelligent robots, motion control, and intelligent mechatronic systems.

Keynote Speaker Ⅳ

Prof. Baoquan Li

Tiangong University, China

Brief Introduction to Prof. Baoquan Li:  

Baoquan Li received the B.Eng. degree in automation and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Since 2013 to 2014, he was a joint Ph.D. student with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, awarded by China Scholarship Council. He is currently a Professor with the School of Control Science and Engineering, and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligence Technology and Systems, Tiangong University, Tianjin. His current research interests include computer vision, sensor fusion, unmanned aerial vehicle, and nonlinear control. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has published over 50 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings, and he is a principal investigator of over 10 granted scientific projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, and Fundamental Research Funds for Universities of Tianjin City. He is a 2nd Level Candidate for Innovative Talent Project Award of Tianjin City, obtains Young Innovative Talent Award within Tianjin City Universities, and obtains Popular Supervisor Award by Tiangong University.

Keynote Speaker Ⅴ

Assoc. Prof. Yu Wang

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Brief Introduction to Assoc. Prof. Yu Wang:  

Yu Wang, Ph.D., Associate professor, member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His scientific research interests include underwater bionic robots, robotic control, etc. He currently serves as the vice president of the Information Management Branch of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 60 academic papers in high level international journals in the field of robotics and control technology. He presided over the National Natural Science Foundation-Outstanding Youth Foundation, Project of the National Basic Research Program of China, Talent Program of Youth Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China-Surface Project. He won the first prize of the 2019 CAA Technology Invention Award, the 2019 Chinese Society of Automation Science Popularization Award, and the first prize in online recognition group of the 2018 China Underwater Robot Picking Contest.