Prof. Zewei Zheng,Beihang University, China

Zewei Zheng is a professor atBeihang University and a national young talent. His main research fields include flight control, intelligent control, etc. He has presided over more than 30 scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation, National Key R&D Program, and National Science and Technology Major Project. He has published more than 100 academic papers, including over 70 SCI papers, 3 of which are selected as ESI highly cited papers, and has published 1 academic monograph. He has won 1 first prize and 2 third prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress awards, as well as 1 Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists from the International Committee on Space Research. He has been shortlisted in the list of top 2% of the world's top scientists in lifetime scientific influence and annual scientific influence.

Prof. Xudong Zhao,Dalian University of Technology, China

Professor Xudong Zhao is a full professor and doctoral supervisor at Dalian University of Technology, serving as Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Optimization for Industrial Equipment (Ministry of Education). He is a recipient of China’s National Leading Talent Program, specializing in switched systems, uncertain systems, and stability analysis, robust control, and intelligent control of nonlinear systems with critical applications in aero-engines, robotics, and complex military aerospace engineering systems. With over 150 publications in journals like Automatica and the IEEE Transactions series (including 20+ in top-tier outlets such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control), his research has garnered over 20,000 citations and multiple ESI Highly Cited Papers. As Chief Scientist, he has led the National Science and Technology Major Project, National Key R&D Program, NSFC Key Projects, the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund, a specific engineering project under the JKW Program, and major projects under the Aero Engine & Gas Turbine Major Project, among other important initiatives. Awarded the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, USERN Young Scientist Award, and seven national honors including the MOE Natural Science Second Prize, he has authored two English monographs and holds nine patents. A standing committee member of the Chinese Association of Command and Control’s intelligent control committee, he also serves on editorial boards for Acta Automatica Sinica, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and other journals pivotal to aerospace control technology.

Prof. Wenling Li,Beihang University, China

Wenling Li is currently a Professor with School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University (BUAA). He is a IEEE Senior Member. His research interests include state estimation, stochastic optimization, machine learning, and target tracking. He published more than 100 papers, authorized 12 patients, and published 2 monographs. He is a Principal Investigator of four National Natural Science Foundation projects. He won Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Award as the first author. He serves as a deputy director of the Intelligent Automation Committee of CAA, deputy secretary-general of the Intelligent Service Committee of CAAI, a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Committee of CCF, and an editorial board member of three SCI journals, etc.

Prof. Shuai Liu, Shandong University, China

Shuai Liu is a Qilu Distinguished Professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2012. From 2011 to 2017, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (a joint research center between Singapore and the University of California at Berkeley). He is a recipient of the National thousand plan Program, a Taishan Scholar Distinguished Expert of Shandong Province, an Outstanding Young Scholar of Shandong University.

His research interests encompass distributed control, estimation, and optimization of networked systems, as well as energy systems. He has published over 100 SCI papers and holds more than 20 patents. As the principal completer, he has been awarded the Second Prize of the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of the Chinese Association of Automation Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Shandong Automation Society Natural Science Award, and the Technology Invention Award of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society. His work has also been recognized with the Best Paper Award at the 18th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics & Applications 2023, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society Smart Cities Technical Committee 2023, and two Best Paper Awards at the 7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control 2023.

He serves as an editorial board member for several control journals, including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE T-CYBER), IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (IEEE JAS), ISA Transactions, and Unmanned Systems. He is also a member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, as well as a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Nonlinear Systems and Control Technical Committee and the IEEE Control Systems Society Smart Cities Technical Committee. He has frequently served as a Regional Chair, Program Chair, Invited Chair, and Publicity Chair for international conferences in the field of control. Additionally, he holds committee positions in several Committees of the Chinese Command and Control Society and the Chinese Association of Automation, as well as serving as the Deputy Director of the Intelligent Fault Detection Professional Committee of the Shandong Automation Society.