Invited Speaker Ⅰ

Zongyang Lv

University of Victoria, Canada

Brief Introduction: Zongyang Lv received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he joined Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., Shenzhen, China. From 2022 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. From 2023 to 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. He is the winner of the Best Paper Prize Award of IFAC Control Engineering Practice (2023). His research interests include nonlinear control, fixed-time control, and aerial vehicle control.

Speech Title: Modeling and Control for UAV with Off-center Pendulum: A Generalized Offset Framework

Invited Speaker Ⅱ

Mingjie Dong

Beijing University of Technology, China

Brief Introduction: Mr. Mingjie Dong is an IEEE Senior Member, primarily engaged in research on rehabilitation robotics and assistive exoskeletons. He has led multiple projects, including the Young Scientists Program of the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 30 SCI-indexed papers as the first or corresponding author in academic journals such as IEEE TRO, TMECH, TIE, TNSRE. He has received several scientific research awards, including the Second Prize of the 2024 Guangdong Provincial Technological Invention Award (ranked 2nd), the JMST Best Paper Award 2021, and the i-CREATe 2024 Best Conference Paper Award.