Speakers

Lihua Xie received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1992. Since 1992, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is currently a professor and Director, Center for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation. He served as the Head of Division of Control and Instrumentation and CoDirector, Delta-NTU Corporate Lab for Cyber-Physical Systems. Dr Xie’s research interests include robust control and estimation, networked control systems, multi-agent networks, and unmanned systems. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Unmanned Systems and has served as Editor of IET Book Series in Control and Associate Editor of a number of journals including IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Trans. on Network Control Systems, and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Jan 2012–Dec 2014). Dr Xie is Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Fumin ZHANG is Chair Professor and Director of the Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also Dean’s Professor adjunct in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a PhD degree in 2004 from the University of Maryland (College Park) in Electrical Engineering and held a postdoctoral position in Princeton University from 2004 to 2007. His research interests include mobile sensor networks, maritime robotics, control systems, and theoretical foundations for cyber-physical systems. He received the NSF CAREER Award in September 2009 and the ONR Young Investigator Program Award in April 2010. He is currently serving as the co-chair for the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Marine Robotics, associate editors for IEEE Trans on Automatic Control, and IEEE Trans on Control of Networked Systems, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and International Journal of Robotics Research. 

Fei Gao is currently a tenure-track associate professor (doctoral supervisor) at the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, where he works as the deputy-director and the technical leader of the Field Autonomous System and Computing (FAST) Laboratory, and leads the Flying Autonomous Robotics (FAR) group. He also works as PI for the Center of Autonomous Navigation of Swarm Robotics in Huzhou Institute, Zhejiang University. Fei Gao received his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2019, and his B.Eng. degree in Automation from Zhejiang University in 2015. His research interests include aerial robots, autonomous navigation, motion planning, optimization, and localization and mapping. As the first or corresponding author, he has published over 50 prestigious papers in Robotics, including ICRA, IROS, ISER, ISRR, RAL, JFR, TRO, and Science Robotics. His paper was published as the cover of Science Robotics and he is also the recipient of the IEEE-TRO 2020 King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, the IEEE-SSRR 2016 best paper award, the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021 best Application Paper Finalist, the Outstanding Candidate Award of 2022 DAMO Academy Young Fellow, and the Youth Innovation Awards of 2021 FIT of Zhejiang University. His research has been reported multiple times by mainstream technology media, such as Times, AAAS, IEEE Spectrum and Science. 

Wang Biao has received his B.S. in Aero-engine Control, M.S. in Aero-engine, and Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, in 1997, 2000, and 2004, respectively. Dr. Wang is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Automation Engineering at NUAA. His main research interests relate to unmanned aircraft systems, especially visual guidance and flight control, the applications of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and model predictive control (MPC) as well as visual target detection, tracking, and pose estimation, autonomous landing and other guidance tasks. He was the recipient of several prizes in defense science and technology from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. He has been serving on the editorial board for Unmanned Systems. He has been a visiting research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore, from November 2009 to February 2012, and in the Department of Automation & Computer-Aided Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2001. 

Dr. Shenghai Yuan is currently serving as a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Robotics Technology innovation (CARTIN), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Previously, Dr. Yuan held the position of a postdoctoral research fellow at the STE-NTU Corporate Laboratory, NTU. He obtained his B.Eng and PhD degrees from NTU respectively in 2013 and 2019. Dr Yuan’s research interests encompass robotics perception, machine learning, and swarm operations. He won first place in the DSTA TechX challenge 2013 and secured sixth place in the DAPRA UAVForge challenge 2012. 

Dr. Lu Liu received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2008. From 2009 to 2012, she was an Assistant Professor with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and then a Lecturer with the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K. After that, she joined the City University of Hong Kong, where she is currently a professor. Her current research interests include networked dynamical systems, control theory and applications, and biomedical devices. 

Ben M. Chen is currently a Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2018, he was a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where he had worked for 25 years. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, 1992–1993. His current research interests are in unmanned systems, robust control and control applications. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He had served on the editorial boards of a dozen international journals including Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Unmanned Systems, and Editor of International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.