Hong ZHANG
Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: Dr. ZHANG Hong is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) where he directs “Shenzhen Key Laboratory on Robotics and Computer Vision”.  His research interests include robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, and image processing. Prior to joining SUSTech, he was a Professor in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, where he worked for over 30 years.  He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair from 2003-2017, and made significant contributions in robotics research. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IROS Conference Paper Review Board, a flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), from 2020-2022.  He is currently serving a three-year term as a member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of IEEE RAS (2023-2025).  In recognition of his many contributions, Dr. Zhang was elected a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Peng SHI
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Biography: Peng Shi received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of South Australia. He was awarded the Doctor of Science degree from University of Glamorgan, Wales; and the Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is now a Distinguished Professor, Director of Laboratory of Advanced Unmanned Systems, and Laboratory of Cyber-Physical Human Systems at University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include systems and control theory and applications to autonomous and robotic systems, intelligence systems, and cyber-physical systems. He has published widely in those areas. He received many recognitions and awards, such as the IEEE Nobert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society in 2024, the Ramesh Agarwal Life-time Achievement Award from the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) in 2023, the Meritorious Service Award from IEEE SMC Society in 2023, the M. A. Sargent Medal Award from the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust) in 2022, the Highly-Cited Researcher from Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2014, and Field Leader from The Australian Research Review from 2019-2023, the Outstanding Research Achievement Award from University of Adelaide in 2020, the Chancellor’s Gold Medal Award for Outstanding Research Performance from Victoria University in 2018, the Runner-up of Scopus Researcher of the Year Award (Elsevier, 2017), and the Andrew Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE SMC Society in 2016.  His professional service includes a member of Board of Governors, Vice President of IEEE SMC Society, the President of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Science (IASCYS), and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Romanian Scientists, and an Academician of IASCYS. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, IETI, IEAust, and CAA. He serves/served on the editorial board of journals such as Automatica, IEEE Transactions on (Automatic Control, Fuzzy Systems, Circuits and Systems, Artificial Intelligence). Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, a Senior Editor of IEEE Access, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Guilin Yang
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China

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Dongrui Wu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: Dongrui Wu (IEEE Fellow) received a B.E in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2003, an M.Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2006, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 2009. He is now Professor and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. 
Prof. Wu's research interests include brain-computer interface, machine learning, computational intelligence, and affective computing. He has more than 200 publications (11000+ Google Scholar citations; h=54). He received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in 2012, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2014, the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society Early Career Award in 2017, the USERN Prize in Formal Sciences in 2020, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Best Paper Award in 2021, the Chinese Association of Automation Early Career Award in 2021, and the Ministry of Education Young Scientist Award in 2022. His team won the First Prize of the China Brain-Computer Interface Competition in four successive years (2019-2022). Prof. Wu is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.