Keynote Speech Ⅰ
Prof. Lei Guo
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow
National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, CAS, China
Brief Introduction to Prof. Lei Guo: Lei GUO received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Shandong University in 1982 and a Ph.D. degree in control theory from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University from 1987 to1989 and became a Professor of the Institute of Systems Science at CAS in 1992. From 2002 to 2012, he was the President of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science at CAS. He has been the Director of the National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences at CAS since 2010.
Dr. Guo is a Fellow of IEEE, Member of CAS, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He received the 1993 IFAC World Congress Young Author Prize, the IFAC Outstanding Service Award, and an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He delivered plenary lectures at the triennial IFAC World Congress twice, in 1999 and 2014, and an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2002. In 2019, he was awarded the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize by the IEEE Control Systems Society “for fundamental and practical contributions to the field of adaptive control, system identification, adaptive signal processing, stochastic systems, and applied mathematics” in France, where he delivered the Bode Prize Lecture at the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
He formerly served as Council Member of IFAC (2005-2011), General Co-Chair of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’2009), Congress Director of the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM’2015), and President of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM, 2008-2016). He has also served as a member of editorial boards of several professional journals including SIAM J. Control and Optimization.
His research interests include stochastic systems, adaptive control, system identification, adaptive filtering, machine learning, control of nonlinear and uncertain dynamical systems, maximum feedback capability, multi-agent systems, and game-based control systems.
Keynote Speech Ⅱ
Prof. Yaochu Jin
IEEE Fellow
Westlake University, China
Brief Introduction to Prof. Yaochu Jin: Prof Jin’s research interests include trustworthy artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence. He has been working in the cross-disciplinary areas of computational intelligence, computational neuroscience and computational systems biology, such as evolutionary optimization and learning, secure and privacy-preserving machine learning and optimization, graph neural network based combinatorial optimization, pretrained generative models for optimization, spiking neural networks and neural plasticity, computational modeling of neural and morphological development, morphogenetic self-organizing swarm robots and reconfigurable modular robots, artificial life, and evolutionary developmental systems. He has published over 500 papers in IEEE Transactions and major conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, and ACM MM. His research output has been applied to design optimization of many industrial systems, such as turbine engines, high-lift airfoils, vehicles, and aircraft fuselage, reverse engineering of biological gene regulatory networks, vaccine selection, healthcare, fintech and robotics. His research has been funded by EU FP7, UK EPSRC, UK Royal Society, German BMBF, NSF China, and several companies including Honda, Bosch, Airbus, Huawei and Nvidia.
Prof Jin is presently the President-Elect of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2013-2015 and 2017-2019, the Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2015-2016). He is the recipient of the 2018, 2021 and 2023 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2015, 2017, and 2020 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. He was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” consecutively from 2019 to 2022 by Clarivate. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of IEEE, with over 50,000 citations and H-index of 116 (source: Google Scholars).
Keynote Speech Ⅲ
Prof. Hideaki Ishii
IEEE Fellow
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Brief Introduction to Prof. Hideaki Ishii: Hideaki Ishii received the M.Eng. degree from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2002. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2001-2004, and a Research Associate at The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2004-2007. He was an Associate Professor and then a Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2007-2024. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Information Physics and Computing, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart in 2014-2015. He has also held visiting positions at CNR-IEIIT at the Politecnico di Torino, the Technical University of Berlin, and the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include networked control systems, multiagent systems, distributed algorithms, and cyber-security of control systems.
Dr. Ishii has served as an Associate Editor for Automatica, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and the Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems. He was a Vice President for the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) in 2022-2023, the Chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee on Systems and Signals in 2017-2023, and the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems for 2011-2017. He served as the IPC Chair for the IFAC World Congress 2023 held in Yokohama, Japan. He received the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award in 2015. Dr. Ishii is an IEEE Fellow.
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