Keynote Speakers

Prof. Lihui Wang (The Canadian Academy of Engineering, CIRP, SME, and ASME Fellow)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Biography: Lihui Wang is a Chair Professor and the Director of Centre of Excellence in Production Research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research interests are primarily focused on human-robot collaboration, real-time monitoring and control, and adaptive manufacturing systems. Professor Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Manufacturing Research, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. He has published 11 books and authored in excess of 800 publications. Professor Wang was elected one of the 20 Most Influential Professors in Smart Manufacturing in 2020, and the Gold Medal recipient from Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2024.

Prof. Gang Feng (IEEE Fellow)
City University of Hong Kong, China

Biography: Gang Feng received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,After serving as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer with the School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia, from 1992 to 1999, he has been with the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, since 2000, where he is currently the Chair Professor of Mechatronic Engineering. His current research interests include multiagent systems and control, intelligent systems and control, and networked systems and control.,Prof. Feng has been awarded the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Changjiang chair Professorship from the Education Ministry of China, and the City University of Hong Kong Outstanding Research Award. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Autonomous Intelligent Systems, and Guidance, Navigation and Control. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics—Part C, Mechatronics, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He is on the Advisory Board of Unmanned Systems. He is listed as a SCI Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2016 to 2020.

Prof. Ruqiang Yan (IEEE Fellow)
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Ruqiang Yan (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007. He was a Guest Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, from 2006 to 2008, and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from 2009 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include data analytics, artificial intelligence, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of large-scale, complex, and dynamical systems. Dr. Yan is a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and multiple best paper awards. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement since January 2022. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. Jianbin Qiu (IEEE Fellow)
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Biography: Jianbin Qiu received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He also received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2009. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. His current research interests include intelligent and hybrid control systems, signal processing, and robotics. Prof. Qiu is a Fellow of IEEE and serves as the chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Harbin Chapter, China. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.v