Prof. Lining Sun
Soochow University, China
Experience: Prof. Lining Sun is the National Talent. He is the Distinguished Professor of Soochow University, Dean of the School of Electromechanical Engineering of Soochow University, Doctoral Supervisor, recipient of the National Outstanding Young Persons' Fund, subject matter expert of Robotics in the National Tenth Five-Year Plan 863 Program, expert in the field of Advanced Manufacturing Technology in the National Eleventh Five-Year Plan 863 Program. He is also an expert of the National “Tenth Five-Year Plan” 863 Program on Robotics, the leader of the overall group of MEMS major special project of the National “Tenth Five-Year Plan”, and an expert of the Expert Group of the National “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” on Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Now he is the expert of the overall group of the key scientific and technological special project of service robot of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the subject expert of the micro and nano manufacturing technology of the National 12th Five-Year Plan 863, the chairman of the board of directors of Suzhou BOSHI Robotics Company, and the director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics Technology of Jiangsu Province. He serves as the vice president of Micro-Nano Device and System Technology Branch of China Instrument Society, the executive director of China Society of Micron and Nanotechnology, and the deputy director of Robotics Committee of China Society of Automation and other academic organizations. He is mainly engaged in the research and development of industrial robots and mechatronics equipment, micro and nano-operated robots and equipment, medical and special robots, etc. He has achieved important research results in the research and application of advanced robot mechanism, perception, control, system integration and other cutting-edge and core key technologies. He has presided over and completed more than 20 projects of National 863 Program, 973 Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has won two second-class national science and technology awards and three first-class provincial science and technology awards, published more than 300 academic papers and authorized more than 20 national invention patents.
Prof. Youfu Li
City University of Hong Kong, China
Experience: Prof. Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology China. He obtained the PhD degree from the Robotics Research Group, Dept of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford in 1993. From 1993 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral research staff in the Dept of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 1995 and is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include robot sensing, robot vision, 3D vision, visual tracking, sensor guided manipulation, mechatronics and automation. In these areas, he has published over 180 papers in SCI listed international journals. Dr Li has received many awards in robot sensing and vision including IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award by IEEE Sensors Council, Second Prize of Natural Science Research Award by the Ministry of Education, 1st Prize of Natural Science Research Award of Hubei Province, 1st Prize of Natural Science Research Award of Zhejiang Province, China. He was on Top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists by Stanford University, 2020. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), Editor of the IEEE Robotics Automation Society's Conference Editorial Board (CEB) and Guest Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM). He is a fellow of IEEE.
Prof. Xingjian Wang
Beihang University,China
Experience: Prof. Xingjian Wang, professor and doctoral director, is currently the deputy dean of the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), a national young talent, and the winner of the Youth Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Aeronautical Society. He received his bachelor's degree and doctoral degree from BUAA in 2006 and 2012 respectively. His main research interests include electromechanical-hydraulic servo systems and control technology, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, fault prediction and health management, bio-mechatronics and bionic robotics, etc. He has presided over more than 30 important scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and won the Second Prize of National Teaching Achievements, and five scientific and technological awards from provincial and ministerial-level/first-level societies. He has published more than 100 academic papers in IEEE TIE, IEEE TMECH and other important journals and conferences at home and abroad, of which more than 50 are SCI-retrieved, and more than 30 national invention patents have been authorized. He serves as a member, executive deputy director-general and deputy secretary-general of the Aviation Electromechanical Branch of the Aviation Society of China, a member, secretary-general of the Fluid Transmission and Control Branch of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Intelligent Fluid Control Committee, etc. He is also a member of the Fluid Control Committee of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering.