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Mark Balas

Texas A&M University

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

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Paul Bogdan

University of Southern California

United States

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Lijun Chen

University of Colorado at Boulder

United States

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Maison Clouâtré

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Shuang Cong

University of Science and Technology of China

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Shuang Cong

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Cong Shuang, a professor in the Department of Automation at the University of Science and Technology of China, holds a national doctoral degree in Italy and serves as a doctoral supervisor. She has been engaged in research on motion control since 1989, and have been studying quantum system control theory and methods since 2000. So far, more than 500 academic papers have been published in domestic and international academic journals and conferences on the theory and methods of quantum system control, advanced control strategies, and their applications and optimization algorithms in motion control. Published 12 monographs as independent and first author, with 2 chief editors; It has undertaken more than 30 research projects, including the National 973, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the President's Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province. 35 national invention patents, 13 provincial and ministerial awards, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the second prize of Anhui Natural Science, and the first prize of Anhui Science and Technology Excellent Paper; 5 international conference and magazine awards. Currently, she is the Member of the Control Design Technical Committee of the International Federation of Automation (IFAC); Vice Chairman of the System Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation; Member of the Control Theory and Application Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation.

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University of Science and Technology of China

China

Wei Cui

South China University of Technology

China

Domenico D‘Alessandro

Iowa State University

United States

Haijin Ding

Université Paris-Saclay

France

Jin Dong

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

United States

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Zhiyuan Dong

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

Luis Duffaut Espinosa

University of Vermont

United States

Muhammad Fuady Emzir

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Saudi Arabia

Fang Gao

Guangxi University

China

Qing Gao

Beihang University

China

Beili Gong

Guangxi University

China

Lei Guo

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

China

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Nina Hadis Amini

CNRS/CentraleSupélec

France

S Z Sayed Hassen

University of Mauritius

Mauritius

Shouliang Hu

Nanjing University

China

Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

Tsinghua University

China

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Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

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Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia (S’02–M’06–SM’11) received the B.E. degree in automation and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

He is an Associate Professor with the Centre for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2006, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2010, and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2013. His current research interests include integrated data-driven, statistical, and computational approaches to find designs and decision-making policies that have simple structures and guaranteed good performance. His research relies on strong collaborations with experts in manufacturing systems, energy systems, autonomous systems, and smart cities.

Dr. Jia is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications. He served as the Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2012 to 2015 and currently serves as the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.3 on “Control for Smart Cities” and the Smart Buildings Technical Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the Beijing Chapter Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

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Tsinghua University

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Min Jiang

Soochow University

China

Edmond Jonckheere

University of Southern California

United States

Yuzuru Kato

Future University Hakodate

Japan

Navin Khaneja

IIT Bombay

India

Robert Kosut

Systems & Control Division SC Solutions, Inc

United States

Sen Kuang

University of Science and Technology of China

China

James Lam

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

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James Lam

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Professor James Lam obtains a BSc (1st Hons.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He serves as a Chair Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, where he joined in 1993. Before that, he held faculty positions at the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Melbourne. He is a Croucher Scholar, Croucher Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Cheung Kong Chair Professor.

Professor Lam holds many professional designations, including Chartered Mathematician (CMath), Chartered Scientist (CSci), Chartered Engineer (CEng), and he is a Fellow of several professional institutions such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA), and the Distinguished Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (DFIETI).

He serves as Editor-in-Chief for IET Control Theory and Applications, Journal of The Franklin Institute, Proc. IMechE Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, and Franklin Open. He has also held editorial positions in Journal of Sound and Vibration, Asian Journal of Control, Cogent Engineering, IET Journal of Engineering, International Journal of Systems Science, Automatica, and Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing.

He is recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering / Computer Science / Cross-Fields.

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The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR China

Yun-Yan Lee

Australian National University

Australia

Weichao Liang

Université Paris-Saclay

France

Qing Li

Shaanxi Normal University

China

Jing Liu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

China

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Yanan Liu

University of Newcastle

Australia

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Zhixin Liu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Hailan Ma

University of New South Wales

Australia

Shan Ma

Central South University

China

Aline I. Maalouf

University of New South Wales, Canberra

Australia

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Mohamed Mabrok

Qatar University

Qatar

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Zibo Miao

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

Shaoshuai Mou

Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON), Purdue University

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

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Biqiang Mu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Hendra Nurdin

University of New South Wales

Australia

Kentaro Ohki

Kyoto University

Japan

Yu Pan

Zhejiang University

China

Ian Petersen

Professor in Research School of Engineering

Australian National University

Australia

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Bo Qi

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Hongsheng Qi

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Salahuddin Abdul Rahman

Aalborg University

Denmark

Shibdas Roy

TCG CREST, Kolkata

India

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Shuzhi Sam Ge

National University of Singapore

Singapore

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Shuzhi Sam Ge

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Professor Shuzhi Sam Ge is the Director of Social Robotics Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute, and Supervisor of Edutainment Robotics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore. He obtained his BSc from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and PhD and DIC from Imperial College London. He has (co)-authored three books: Adaptive Neural Network Control of Robotic Manipulators (World Scientific, 1998), Stable Adaptive Neural Network Control (Kluwer, 2001) and Switched Linear Systems: Control and Design (Springer-Verlag, 2005), over 300 international journal and conference papers, and edited a book: Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision Making and Applications (Taylor and Francis, 2006).

He is the Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, and the book Editor of the Taylor & Francis’ Automation and Control Engineering Series. He has served/been serving as an Associate Editor for a number of flagship journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and Automatica. At IEEE Control Systems Society, he served/serves as Vice President for Technical Activities, 2009-2010, and Vice President for Membership Activities, 2011. He is an Fellow of IFAC, IEEE, and IET.

He was the recipient of Inaugural Temasek Young Investigator Award, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore, 2002; and National Technology Award of the National Science & Technology Board, Singapore,1999. He provides technical consultancy to industrial and government agencies. His current research interests include social robotics, mind robotics, multimedia fusion, adaptive control, intelligent systems and artificial intelligence. He is the founder of Personal E-Motion Pte Ltd and Portege Pte Ltd.

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National University of Singapore

Singapore

Sophie Shermer

Swansea University

United Kingdom

Guodong Shi

The University of Sydney

Australia

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Omar Shindi

University of New South Wales

Australia

Chuan-Cun Shu

School of Physics at Central South University

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Zhuo Wang

Beihang University

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Moe Z. Win

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

Rafael Wisniewski

Aalborg University

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Ai-Guo Wu

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

China

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