Prof. Zhiyun Lin
Foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE、Fellow of IET
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Experience: ZhiyunLin, Deputy Dean/permanent Professor/doctoral supervisor of School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology, Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Engineering Engineering), International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Fellow), British Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET Fellow), Asia Pacific Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AAIA Fellow). He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2005. 2005-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto; 2007-2011, the first batch of special researcher/doctoral supervisor of Zhejiang University; 2011-2017, Professor/doctoral Supervisor of Zhejiang University, Deputy Director of Electrical Automation Research Institute, Director of Robotics and Automation Research Center of South China Industrial Research Institute; 2017-2021 Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Deputy Director of the "Perception and Control of Information Physical System" Innovation Base of the Ministry of Education; He joined Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021 and now serves as the deputy Dean of the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing. From 2008 to 2014, he was a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Tokyo, the Australian National University and other top international universities, and an outstanding visiting professor at the University of Technology Sydney. IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Control Systems AE of many international journals such as Letter, Vice President of International Intelligent Networked Systems Society (INSAI), member of Technical Committee of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), standing member of Cluster Intelligence and Collaborative Control Professional Committee of China Command and Control Society. He is mainly engaged in cutting-edge research on multi-agent theory, distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous unmanned systems and intelligent robots, and intelligent perception and control of information and physical systems. He has presided over/participated in more than 30 cooperative scientific research projects of national and provincial ministries and commissions and enterprises, published 2 English academic monographs, and published more than 230 papers in international journals and conferences. More than 60 invention patents have been applied for/authorized, and more than 20 software Copyrights have been approved. His papers have been cited more than 8,000 times, and he has been listed in the "List of Highly Cited Scholars in China" by Elsevier for 9 consecutive years from 2014 to 2022. In 2021, he was selected into the "Lifetime Science Influence List" and "Annual Science Influence List" of the world's top 2% of top scientists released by Stanford University.
Prof. Weidong Li
Fellow of IMechE, Fellow of IET
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Experience: He is the dean, professor, doctoral supervisor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Special Professor of Changjiang Scholars, Shanghai innovation leader, Fellow of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Fellow of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), and scholar of the European Union's Maligurie Program. He has presided over more than 30 scientific research projects of EU Framework Programme (EU FP7, EU Horizon), UK Engineering and Physics Foundation (EP SRC), UK Innovation Agency (IUK) and European industry (Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Land Rover). He has been the director of the European Union International cooperation project for three times, won the European Union "Success Case Award" twice, and presided over the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and the horizontal scientific research projects of enterprises.