Prof. Yongduan Song, Chongqing University, China (Dean) Prof. Yongduan Song, a native of Changshou, Chongqing, is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of automation and artificial intelligence. He currently serves as Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University. As one of the first batch of National High-Level Talents in China, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2025. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and a Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). He serves as Editor-in-Chief ofIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS) and Founding Editor-in-Chief ofJournal of Automation and Intelligence. He was formerly the Director of the Collaborative Systems Center at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and a Distinguished Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. Meanwhile, he has cultivated and assembled a group of young research backbones with international vision for the western region of China, including Changjiang Scholars, recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and talents at the "Four Youth" level, which has laid a significant and solid foundation for the development of the discipline echelon in western China. |
Dr. Yanlong Zhao is a Professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He serves as Vice President of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Chair of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of CAA, a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and President-Elect of the Asian Control Association (ACA). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Control) ofJournal of Systems Science and Complexity, and as an Editorial Board Member of internationally renowned journals includingAutomatica,SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, andIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He was awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award (3rd contributor) and the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Association of Automation (1st contributor). He received his B.S. degree from the School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Shandong University, in 2002, and his Ph.D. degree from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2007. He conducted postdoctoral research at Wayne State University (USA) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and was a visiting scholar at Linköping University (Sweden). His professional career includes appointments as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. His long-term research interests lie in identification and adaptive control of set-valued (quantized) nonlinear systems, financial system modeling, communication networks, and systems biology. He currently recruits graduate students majoring in Systems Theory, Operations Research and Cybernetics, and Communication and Information Systems, with research focuses on communication and information systems, identification and adaptive control of set-valued systems, and financial system modeling. |
Prof. Guanghui Wen serves as Vice Dean of the School of Automation, Southeast University, where he is a Chair Professor (Level-2 Professor) and Ph.D. Supervisor. He is an IET Fellow and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been honored with the China Youth Science and Technology Award, and serves as Deputy Director of the Jiangsu National Center for Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2012. His research interests include distributed control, networked swarm intelligence, and the control and decision-making of embodied intelligent agents. He has published more than 300 academic papers in Nature-family journals, IEEE Transactions journals, and CCF-A ranked conferences, and has authored 5 monographs, with his work cited over 10,000 times according to SCI records. He has received Best Paper Awards from international journals and conferences on multiple occasions. He has presided over more than 30 research projects, including those funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and the National Key R&D Program of China, and holds multiple invention patents. He serves as an Editorial Board Member of more than ten leading domestic and international journals, includingAutomatica, and as Editor-in-Chief of the international journalEmbodied Intelligence, and has been repeatedly recognized with Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards. He also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the China Command and Control Society and holds other academic positions. He has been actively engaged in organizing and hosting various domestic and international academic conferences, and possesses substantial academic influence in the fields of distributed coordination and swarm intelligence. |
Prof. Housheng Su is a Level-2 Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, and Chair of the Department of Intelligent Systems and Systems Engineering, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and has been selected for the National Young Top-Notch Talents Program of the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan". He also serves as Deputy Director of the Engineering Research Center of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Ministry of Education. He received his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008. His research focuses on cooperative control theory of multi-agent systems and its applications in the coordinated control of unmanned surface vehicle (USV) swarms. Driven by frontier scientific issues and major application demands of unmanned swarm collaboration, he has made a series of outstanding achievements in cooperative control theory and its engineering applications in USV swarm coordination. His academic honors include the Second Prize of the State Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of the Hubei Natural Science Award, and the First Prize of the Guangdong Technological Invention Award. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics), a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (Elsevier), and has been listed among the World's Top 0.05% Scientists by ScholarGPS and the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He also leads an Innovative Research Group in Hubei Province, is a recipient of the Hubei Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was selected for the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education. Prof. Su has presided over 8 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 1 key international cooperation project under the National Key R&D Program of China. He serves as a panel reviewer for talent programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a panel reviewer for the Information Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and an external reviewer for the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals, including over 30 ESI Highly Cited Papers and more than 100 papers in IEEE Transactions journals. He is an Associate Editor ofIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and other international journals. |
