Prof. Graziano Chesi
The University of Hong Kong
BIO: Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He founded the Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" and "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming". He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA and AIIA.
Prof. Guoqiang Hu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
BIO: Dr. Guoqiang Hu is currently a Professor of Intelligent Systems and Robotics in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida. His research interests include optimization and control, game theory, and learning algorithms, with applications to robotics and smart city systems. He was a recipient of several awards, including the Best Paper in Automation Award in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, the Best Paper Award in the 36th Chinese Control Conference, and the Best Paper Award in the 4th Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Prof. Chenglong Fu
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
BIO: Prof. Chenglong Fu obtained his B.S. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University in 2002 and Ph.D. from the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua University, in 2007. His research interests include dynamic walking, biped and humanoid robots, powered prosthesis, exoskeletons and SuperLimbs. He is the principal investigator of more than 30 research projects. He has published more than 140 papers and holds more than 30 granted patents. He is an Associate Editor of Robotica (Cambridge University Press, Est. 1983) and workshop co-chair of IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2018-2020; co-organizer in IROS 2019 Workshop (Supernumerary Robotic Limbs); Local Chair, Special Session Chair, and Organizing Chair of IEEE ARM 2020-2023, Associate Editor of IROS 2021-2023; Publicity Committee Co-Chair of ICRA 2021 and Associate Editor of ICRA 2022. He received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from 2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, the Best Student Paper Award from 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, the Best Conference Paper Finalist from 2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, and the Best Paper Award Finalist form 2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. He obtained 2022 First Prize of Shenzhen Science and Technology Progress Award, and 2022 Second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Chinese Association of Automation.
Prof. Farshad Khorrami
New York University, USA
BIO: Farshad Khorrami received his bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering in 1982 and 1984 respectively from The Ohio State University. He also received his master’s degree in mathematics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and 1988 from The Ohio State University. Dr. Khorrami is currently a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at NYU where he joined as an assistant professor in Sept. 1988. His research interests include system theory and nonlinear controls, robotics, machine learning, cyber physical system security, autonomous unmanned vehicles, embedded system security, and large-scale systems and decentralized control. Prof. Khorrami has published more than 380 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas. His book on “modeling and adaptive nonlinear control of electric motors” was published by Springer Verlag in 2003. He also has fifteen U.S. patents on novel smart micro-positioners and actuators, embedded system security, and wireless sensors and actuators. He has developed and directed the Control/Robotics Research Laboratory at Polytechnic University (Now NYU) and Co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research has been supported by the Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, DARPA, Dept. of Energy, Sandia National Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, and several corporations. Prof. Khorrami has served as general chair and conference organizing committee member of several international conferences. He is also an IEEE Fellow.