Professor Hao Zhang, Tongji University, China

BIO: Professor Hao Zhang is a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at Tongji University. She serves as a committee member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation and is a member of the Chinese Association of Automation. Professor Zhang earned her bachelor's degree in Automatic Control from Wuhan University of Technology in 2001. She pursued her graduate studies at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering in June 2007. In September 2007, she joined the Department of Control Science and Engineering at the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University. She was promoted to Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor in 2010 and became a full Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in 2015. Between 2011 and 2013, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.

Professor Zhang has long been engaged in research and teaching in the fields of cooperative control, decision-making, and optimization of multi-agent systems, intelligent vehicles and robotic systems, and network security. She has led over 10 national and provincial-level projects, including three National Natural Science Foundation of China projects. She has published more than 70 influential papers in international journals and conferences, with over 30 of them indexed by SCI. Her publications include 33 papers in Automatica and IEEE journals, one of which was selected as one of the "100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China in 2013," and 11 papers were recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers. Professor Zhang actively participates in international academic exchanges and collaborations, establishing long-term partnerships with renowned scholars in her field both domestically and internationally.

She has received numerous accolades, including the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hubei Province, and has been selected for the Hong Kong Scholars Program, Shanghai Dawn Scholar Program, Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, and Shanghai Shuguang Scholar Program. Her achievements have also been recognized with the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award, and two First Prizes of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.

ProfessorHongyi Li, Southwest University,China

BIO: Professor Hongyi Li is a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at Southwest University. He is recognized as a national-level talent and has been awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He is also honored as a New Century Excellent Talent by the Ministry of Education. Professor Li earned his Ph.D. in Intelligent Control from the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2012. He has conducted research as a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Wollongong, Australia. His primary research focuses on intelligent control, cooperative control, and their applications in complex dynamic systems. He has filed over 60 national invention patents, with more than 40 authorized. Additionally, he has published two academic monographs and over 130 papers in prestigious journals such as Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), and other IEEE transactions. Notably, two of his papers published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMCS) were awarded the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Professor Li is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as a member of the Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence and Control for the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is also the Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation.

Professor Qinmin Yang, Zhejiang University, China

BIO: Qinmin Yang received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China in 2001, the Master of Science Degree in Control Science and Engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, MO USA, in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Missouri-Rolla. From 2008 to 2009, he was a system engineer with Caterpillar Inc. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at University of Connecticut. Since 2010, he has been with the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, where he is currently a professor. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Toronto and Lehigh University.