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| Distinguished Research Fellow Aming Li, Peking University, China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Bio:Aming Li is a Distinguished Researcher and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University. He also holds a joint appointment as a Researcher at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, and serves as the Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering, Peking University. His primary research interests include population games, swarm intelligence, control of networked systems, and stability of complex systems. His research findings have been published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications, Nature Ecology & Evolution, PNAS, and Nature Machine Intelligence. Prof. Li is the Principal Investigator of a Class A Young Scientists Fund project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and a National Key R&D Program Young Scientist Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has been selected for the National Youth Talent Program. His accolades include the HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award, the Beijing Nova Program, and the Xiong Youlun Zhihu Outstanding Young Scholar Award. |
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| Professor Changyun Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore IEEE Fellow BIO: Changyun Wen received his B.Eng from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in July 1983 and Ph.D from the University of Newcastle, Australia in Feb 1990. From August 1989 to August 1991, he was a Research Associate and then Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is presently a Full Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Fellow of IEEE, was a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee from Jan 2011 to Dec 2013 and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Control Systems Society from Feb 2010 to Feb 2013. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. Prof. Wen is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (from July 2020), an Associate Editor of Automatica (from Feb 2006) and the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Control and Decision. He also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2000 to 2002, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (from May 2013 to Jan 2020) and IEEE Control Systems Magazine from 2009 to 2019, respectively. He has been actively involved in organizing international conferences playing the roles of General Chair, General Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, Program Committee Member, General Advisor, Publicity Chair and so on. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award from the Institution of Engineers, Singapore in 2005, and Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2017. |
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| Professor Kaibin Huang, The University of Hong Kong, China IEEE Fellow BIO: Kaibin Huang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the National University of Singapore and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical engineering. He is the Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor in Electrical Engineering and the Department Head at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong. His work was recognised with seven Best Paper awards from the IEEE Communication Society. He has served on the editorial boards of five major journals in the area of wireless communications and co-edited twelve journal special issues. He has been named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the last seven years (2019-2025) and an AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Top 30 in Internet of Things)in 2023-2025. He received the 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award. He is a member of the Engineering Panel of Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2022). He is Croucher Senior Research Fellow (2026), Fellow of the IEEE (2021), and Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (2024). |
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| Distinguished Research Fellow Shiyu Zhao, Westlake University, China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars BIO:Shiyu Zhao is the Director of the WINDY Lab in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore in 2014. Prior to joining Westlake University, he served as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on aerial manipulation robotics (single-robot systems) and general swarm intelligence (multi-robot systems). As corresponding author, he has published research outcomes in journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and the International Journal of Robotics Research. He currently serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief of the journal Unmanned Systems, and as an Associate Editor for IEEE-TRO and IJRR. He has been consistently named among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists (both lifetime and annual lists). He is currently an IET Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member. Shiyu Zhao founded a startup named Windshape Tech In January 2026 and serves concurrently as its Chief Scientist. The company focuses on the R&D of aerial manipulation robots. Driven by a mission to disrupt traditional paradigms of elevated work, the company aims to extend operational capabilities into environments previously inaccessible to humans. |
