• 中国, 上海
  • Shanghai, China

Keynote Speakers

 

Prof. Li Zhang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China

Li Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) and a Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a director of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – CUHK Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Before he joined CUHK as an Assistant Professor in 2012, he worked in Prof. Bradley Nelson’s group as a postdoc and then as a senior scientist and lecturer in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.
Dr. Zhang’s main research interests include small-scale robotics, from individual and multiple robots to swarms, and their applications for translational biomedicine. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, including Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Matter, ACS Nano, AFM, TRO, IJRR, SoRo, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, as the corresponding author. His H-index is 70 and 63 based on Google Scholar Citations and Web of Science, respectively. His research work on artificial bacterial flagella was indexed by the Guinness Book of World Records 2012 for the “Most Advanced Mini Robot for Medical Use.” And his research work on magnetic slime robot was selected as “Top 10 Innovation and Technology News in Hong Kong in 2022”. Dr. Zhang has won several awards from IEEE international conferences, including NANOMED 2010, ICRA 2010, IROS 2012, Living Machines 2013, CASE 2020, ICARM 2020, 3M-NANO 2021, and MARSS 2022. He won the Hong Kong Research Grants Committee (RGC) Early Career Award in 2013, CUHK Young Researcher Award 2017, United College Early Career Research Excellence Merit Award 2018, CUHK Research Excellence Award 2019-20, and RGC Research Fellow (RFS) Award 2021/22. He currently serves as Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of ten international journals, such as IEEE TRO, IEEE/ASME T-MECH, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE T-MRB, Advanced Intelligent Systems (Wiley), Biomicrofluidics (AIP), Research (SPJ/AAAS) and Med-X (Springer). Dr. Zhang is a Distinguished Lecturer appointed by IEEE NTC in 2020 and 2021. Since 2012 (after he joined CUHK), he has been acted/acting as PC/PI for over 26 competitive grants from RGC (15 projects including Early Career Award, RFS Award, STG, RIF, EU-RGC, GRF, JLFS, and PROCORE-HK JRS), ITC (8 projects including MRP, Tier-2, Tier-3, PSTS, and TSSSU), the Croucher Foundation (3 projects including Croucher Advanced Study Institute), NSFC and Shenzhen government. He is also Co-PI in 2 RGC CRF projects. Dr. Zhang is an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK and elected as a Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE), Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA).

Prof. Lining Sun
Soochow University, China

Lining Sun, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, recipient of the He Liang He Li Fund, National Outstanding Youth Fund, National high-level talents, Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE), Dean of the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of Soochow University, Director of the Center for Robotics and Microsystems, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems, Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics Technology in Jiangsu Province.
He is an expert of Robotics and Micro-Nano Manufacturing Technology in the field of Advanced Manufacturing under the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Five-Year Plans of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the People's Republic of China. He is mainly engaged in the research of industrial robots and mechatronics equipment, micro and nano manipulation robots and equipment, medical and special robots. He has presided more than 20 projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, 863 Program, 973 Program, National Major Special Projects, etc. He has been awarded 2 Second Prizes of National Technological Invention\Scientific and Technological Progress, 5 First Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Technological Invention\Scientific and Technological Progress. He has published more than 500 papers, as well as being authorized with more than 50 national invention patents, which significantly facilitate the industrialization of relevant research fields.

Prof. Liuping Wang
RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Professor Liuping Wang received her Ph.D degree in 1989 from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK. Upon completion of her PhD degree, she worked in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada for eight years in the field of process control. From 1998 to 2002, she worked in the Center for Integrated Dynamics and Control, University of Newcastle, Australia. In February 2002, she joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Australia where she is a Professor of Control Engineering. She has authored and co-authored more than 250 scientific papers in the field of system identification, PID control, adaptive control, model predictive control, automatic tuning of PID controllers, electrical drive control, unmanned aerial vehicle control and control technology applications to industrial processes. Professor Liuping Wang is an editor of International Journal of Control, an associate editor of Journal of Process Control and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and a Fellow of Institute of Engineers Australia.

Prof. Guilin Yang
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China

Guilin YANG is currently a professor, a PhD supervisor, and the deputy president of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his B. Eng degree and M. Eng degree from Jilin University in 1985 and 1988 respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University in 1999, all in Mechanical Engineering. From 1998 to 2013, he was with the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore, as a scientist, a senior scientist, and then the manager of the Mechatronics Group. He has long been engaged in the research areas of precision mechatronics, industrial robotics, and manufacturing automation. He has been the principal investigators for a number of major research projects in precision actuators, modular robots, parallel robots, cable-driven robots, and industrial robot applications. He has published over 300 technical papers in referred journals and conferences, authored two books, and filed 100 more patents. He received the R&D 100 Award in 2014 and the golden award of “Good Design” of China in 2020. He has also served as associate editors and guest editors for a number of scientific journals.