Prof. Guanghui Wen, Southeast University, China

Biography: Guanghui Wen received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical systems and control from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2012.Currently, he is an Endowed Chair Professor and Vice Dean with the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include autonomous intelligent systems, complex networked systems, distributed control and optimization, resilient control, and distributed reinforcement learning. Prof. Wen was the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, and the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award. He currently serves as a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and the Asian Journal of Control. Prof. Wen has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018. He is an IET Fellow.

Prof. Xiao He, Tsinghua University, China

Biography: Xiao He is a tenured professor at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Director of the Centre for Safety Control Technology Research, and Head of the Key Area Innovation Team under the Ministry of Transport. His research interests include state estimation, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and real-time safety assessment of dynamic systems. He has published over 300 papers in domestic and international journals and conferences. He has led National Natural Science Foundation projects including Young Scientist Fund A, Young Scientist Fund B, and Key Projects. In 2021, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Association for Automation. He is currently the deputy secretary-general of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), deputy director and secretary-general of the fault diagnosis committee of the CAA, deputy director of the process control committee of the CAA, deputy director of the intelligent control and systems committee of the Chinese Institute of Command and Control. He serves as an editorial board member for several international journals, including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TASE and Control Engineering Practice. He has received the First Prize of the Jilin Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, the First Prize of the CAA Natural Science Award in 2015 and 2020, the First Prize of the CAA Technical Invention Award in 2022, and the Second Prize of the Beijing Natural Science Award in 2023. Four doctoral students he has supervised (including co-supervised) have won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the CAA in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2024.