Prof. Bei Sun

Central South University, China

Bei Sun is a professor and doctoral advisor at the School of Automation, Central South University. He received his Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering from Central South University in December 2015. He completed a joint Ph.D. program at New York University (2012–2014) and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University in Finland (2016–2018). He has been selected for the National Youth Talent Program, the Huxiang Young Talents Program, and the China Association for Science and Technology’s Young Talent Support Program. His research focuses primarily on industrial artificial intelligence. He has led projects under the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s General Program. He serves as a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee TC6.2 and as Secretary-General of the Automation Academic Committee of the Chinese Society for Nonferrous Metals. Over the past five years, he has published 34 papers as first or corresponding author, co-authored one English-language monograph, contributed to publications such as the *Report on the Development of Automation Technology in China*, and filed or obtained 56 national invention patents. He has received the First Prize of the Ministry of Education’s Technological Invention Award, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Association of Automation, the National Nonferrous Metals Outstanding Young Scientist Award, and the Zhang Zhongjun Award, among others.

Prof. Jinzhu Peng

Zhengzhou University, China

Jinzhu Peng received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Measuring and Control Technology & Instrumentations, Control Theory and Control Engineering, and Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China in 2002, 2005 and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada, where he was a Visiting Professor from 2019 to 2020. Currently, he is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China. His research interests include robotic control, compliant control, human-robot interactions and collaborations.

Prof. Xuhui Bu

Henan Polytechnic University, China

Xuhui Bu, professor and doctoral supervisor. Zhongyuan Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent, Henan Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Foundation Grant Recipient, Zhongyuan Young Top-Notch Talent, Henan Provincial High-Level Talent, Principal Investigator of the Henan Provincial University Science and Technology Innovation Team, and Stanford University Top 2% Worldwide Scientist. Mainly engaged in data-driven control, intelligent system and learning control, networked system control and other research work. Presided over 5 national natural science funds and more than 10 provincial and ministerial cooperation projects with enterprises. He has published more than 130 academic papers, including more than 90 SCI periodical papers, and published 2 monographs in Science Press and Springer Press. The first finisher won the second prize of natural science in Henan Province and the second prize of scientific and technological progress in Henan Province, and as the main participant, he won the second prize of the provincial government, and authorized 11 invention patents. He is currently the Secretary-General of the DDCS Committee of the Asian Control Society and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Data-Driven Control Learning and Optimization Committee of the Chinese Automation Society.