Speakers
Prof. Youmin ZhangIEEE Fellow, CSME Fellow, AIAA Senior Member, ASME Member, CASI Member, AUVSI/USC Member, Concordia University, Canada Dr. Youmin Zhang is a tenured full professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Aeronautical Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aeronautical Design and Innovation, Concordia University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of AIAA. He has been engaged in the research and development of control theory and engineering applications for a long time. Specializing in fault detection and diagnosis, fault tolerance control, perception and obstacle avoidance, aircraft navigation, guidance and control, multi-agent/multi-moving body (air, ground, water, and wind) fault tolerance collaborative control and combined with remote sensing measurement technology for forest fire prevention and forest resource management, power line patrol and monitoring, environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and other fields of research and application development. Since 1992, he has published more than 500 journal and conference papers and 4 books, and he has been cited 12,791 times on Google Scholar with an impact factor of 52 (h-index) and 205 (i10-index). He was the founding editor of the international journal "Instrumentation, Automation, and Systems" and currently serves as honorary editor and senior editor of the international journal "Intelligent Robot Systems" (editor-at-large). The editor and editorial board of the three international magazines related to unmanned systems recently published, including "Unmanned Systems," "International Intelligent Unmanned Systems Journal," "Unmanned Systems Technology," and other international magazines. |
Prof. Akshay Kumar RATHORE IEEE Fellow, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore Akshay Kumar Rathore (IEEE Fellow) is an expert in power electronics and the control of electrical motor drives. He received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree among all electrical engineering specializations at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) in Varanasi, India. He had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany (2008–2009), and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (2009–2010). From November 2010 to February 2016, he served as an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the National University of Singapore. From March 2016 to December 2021, he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021. He served as Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020–21. His research is mainly focused on the analysis and design of novel current-fed converters (topologies and modulation), soft-switching design and modulation schemes for dc/dc converters, pulsating DC link (electrolytic capacitorless) inverters, and control of multilevel inverters. He supervised 11 PhD theses and 14 MASc (research) theses. Dr. Rathore is a recipient of the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, the 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, the 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, the 2019 IEEE IES Publications Service Recognition Award, the 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award, the 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, and the 2021 Nagamori Award. He published about 285 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 96 IEEE Transactions. He is currently serving as a co-editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the Awards Department Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, an AdCom Member-at-Large, and a Fellow Evaluation Committee member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is serving as the Chair of the IEEE IAS Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems Committee. He led and chaired the IEEE IAS Industrial Automation and Control Committee (2018–19) and the IEEE IAS Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification (2016–17). He served as a member of the IEEE IES Publications Committee (2016–2021) and the IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award Committee (2014–2019). He served as the Chair of the IEEE IAS Montreal Chapter from 2017 to 2021 and received the Best Chapter Award in 2017 from the IEEE Montreal Section for its activities. He served as the Paper Review Chair (eq. to co-EIC) of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2016-17 and 2020-21), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE IES Technology News (ITeN) (2016-18), Associate Editor of various journals, i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2014-19), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2013-present), IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (2014-19), IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topic in Power Electronics (2013-19), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2016-19), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2014-2021), and IET Power Electronics (2015-19). He edited five special issues on the topics of electric transportation, EV charging, marine systems, more electric aircraft, machine learning in power electronics, and renewable energy conversion in different IEEE Transactions as a guest associate editor and as a guest EIC for two special issues. He served as a distinguished lecturer (2017–18) and prominent lecturer (2019–21) of the IEEE IAS society. |
Prof. Pingyi Fan Tsinghua University, China Dr. Pingyi Fan is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. He also visited many universities and research institutes in the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has obtained many research grants, including the national 973 Project, the 863 Project, the mobile special project, the key R&D program, national natural funds, and international cooperation projects. He has published more than 190 SCI papers (more than 130 IEEE journals) and four academic books. He also applied for more than 30 national invention patents and five international patents. He won seven best paper awards at international conferences, including IEEE ICC2020 and Globecom 2014, and received the best paper award from the IEEE TAOS Technical Committee in 2020, the excellent editor award from IEEE TWC (2009), etc. He has served as an editorial board member of several journals, including IEEE and MDPI. He is currently an editorial board member of the Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, the deputy director of the China Information Theory Society, the co-chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4, and the chairman of the Network and Communication Technology Committee of IEEE ChinaSIP. His current research interests are in 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, intelligent network and system detection, etc. |
Prof. Rugui Yao Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Rugui Yao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications and information systems from the School of Electronics and Information (SEI), Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, in 2002, 2005, and 2007, respectively, where he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been with SEI and NPU, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In 2013, he joined the ITP Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA, as a visiting scholar. He has worked in the areas of physical layer security, cognitive radio networks, channel coding, OFDM transmission, and spread-spectrum systems. He is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. |
Prof. Ben Niu Dalian University of Technology, China Ben Niu is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. He has been selected as a National High-level Young Talent Program, and has been selected as a Clarivate Global Highly Cited Scientist, Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar, and the world's Top 100,000 scientists for several years. In January 2013, he received his Doctor of Engineering degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Northeastern University, and he is mainly engaged in the research of information physical system, robot intelligent control and application. He has published more than 100 papers in major academic journals and conferences in the fields of control science and artificial intelligence, including more than 50 papers in Automatica and IEEE Transactions. He has presided 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 5 provincial projects. |
Prof. Yanjun Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, China Yanjun Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2017. From Jun. 2019 to Jun. 2021, he was a postdoc at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He subsequently joined the Beijing Institute of Technology, where he currently serves as a Full Professor. He received a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund for his research project titled “Parametrized Adaptive Control of Non-canonical Form Uncertain Systems”. He now holds the position of Associate Editor at the Journal of Systems Science & Complexity. His research interests include adaptive control, quantized control, multi-agent systems control, and their applications to aircraft control systems. |
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