Keynote Speakers

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

Biography: Gang Feng received the B.Eng and M.Eng. Degrees in Automatic Control from Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, China in 1982 and in 1984 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1992.
Professor Feng was a Lecturer in Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1991 and a Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 1992-1999. He has been with City University of Hong Kong (CityU) since 2000, where he is now a Chair Professor of Mechatronic Engineering. He has received Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the outstanding research award and President award of CityU, and several best conference paper awards. He is listed as a SCI highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2016. His research interests include intelligent systems and control, networked control systems, and multi-agent systems and control.
Professor Feng is a fellow of IEEE. He has been the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Automatic ControlIEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, & CyberneticsMechatronicsJournal of Systems Science & Complexity, Journal of Guidance, Navigation & Control, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He is also on the advisory board of Unmanned Systems.

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