Invited Speakers

Prof. Xiuxian Li, Tongji University, China

Biography: Xiuxian Li is a professor with National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Autonomous Systems, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include distributed control and optimization, game theory, and autonomous vehicles. He is in the best paper finalist of IEEE RCAR 2018 and the best paper recipient of IEEE ICCA 2025, etc. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of Chinese Association of Automation, and a senior member of IEEE.

Prof. Hao Yang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Biography: Hao Yang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical automation from Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from Université de Lille 1: Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, both in 2009. Since 2010, he has been working with College of Automation Engineering in NUAA, where he has been a Full Professor since 2015. His research interest includes control, optimization, game and fault tolerance of switched and network systems with their aerospace applications.
Dr. Yang was the recipient of the National Science Fund of China for Excellent Young Scholars in 2016, and the Top-Notch Young Talents of Central Organization Department of China in 2017. He has served as Associate Editor for Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Acta Automatica Sinica, and Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. He is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes.

Assoc. Prof. Xinqiang Chen, Shanghai Maritime University, China

Biography: Xinqiang Chen, Ph.D., He currently serves as Associate Professor in Shanghai Maritime University. His research primarily focuses on smart ship, video data-driven intelligent perception and understanding of complex traffic/waterway navigation environments, and visual navigation for automated terminal IGVs. Professor Chen has been listed among Elsevier's global top 2% scientists and serves as an Associate Editor for several SCI journals, including IET Intelligent Transportation Systems, Measurement and Control, and International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems , as well as an Editorial Board Member for Intelligent & Robotics, Traffic Safety &Environment, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Sustainability