Prof. Haidong Shao

Hunan University, China

Biography: 

Shaohai Dong, born in 1990, is an associate professor, doctoral advisor, Yuelu Scholar. He completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at Northwestern Polytechnical University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. He is an IEEE Senior Member and part of the IEEE Young Professionals. He has received numerous accolades including "Excellent Young Scientist of Hunan Province," "Hunan Youth Talent," and "Hunan Youth Science and Technology Talent (Top Sprout)" awards. From 2022 to present, he has been continuously listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Engineering/Cross-disciplinary) by Clarivate Analytics for two years and has been an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Scholar for three consecutive years from 2021 to present. From 2020 to present, he has been recognized as one of the top 2% scientists in the world by Stanford University for four consecutive years. He was also included in the Global Scholars Database as one of the top 100,000 scholars worldwide in 2023.

His past honors include the "Top Cited Author Award" from the Royal Society of Physics, IEEE ICCSE 2021 Best Paper Award, CENet 2022 Best Paper Award, IEEE ICPHM 2023 Best Paper Award, among others. He has also received the "Leading 5000—China Top Academic Papers Award (F5000)," the "Outstanding Paper Award" from the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the "High Impact Paper Award" from the Journal of Mechanical Engineering, and several teaching awards from Hunan University including the "First Prize in Hunan Provincial Higher Education Curriculum Ideology and Politics Teaching Competition," "Outstanding New Teacher Award," "Teaching Excellence Award," "Zhangfeng Outstanding Teacher Award," "Youth Post Expert," "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Outstanding Instructor," and "Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor." He was also a recipient of the "National Baosteel Excellent Student 'Special Award,'" and has been awarded the National Ph.D. Scholarship for three consecutive years.

His research focuses on health management and intelligent operations and maintenance of electromechanical systems in transport equipment. He has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including general projects and youth projects, as well as sub-projects under the National Key R&D Program, projects under Hunan Province's Innovation Platform and Talent Program, the Outstanding Youth Foundation of Hunan Province, Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Program, and open topics at national key laboratories as well as research projects commissioned by institutes and enterprises. He has also participated in major research programs, including the Equipment Pre-research Fund of the Central Military Commission, and the Aeronautical Science Fund.

Prof. Xiaodong Zhang

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Biography: 

Professor Xiaodong Zhang received the B.E. degree in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1989, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degree in Mechanics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 2010, he was a Teacher, and in 1999 promoted as an Associate Professor in school of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. Since 2011 he has been a Professor, and now is a deputy director, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems with school of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.

Professor Xiaodong Zhang was a Visiting Scholar in Department of Mechanical and Medical Engineering, University of Bradford, UK, about three months from 2001 to 2002. He was a Researcher in School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, about two years from 2003 to 2005. He was a visiting professor in the Lab on Intelligent robotics, Michigan State University, USA, about one month in November, 2010, and in the Lab on the Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering, University of Hull, UK, about 3 weeks in October, 2011, and in School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, about 2 weeks in July, 2017, and in the Lab on Mechatronics and Intelligent robotics, University of Essex, UK, about 6 months from 2019 to 2020, respectively. Furthermore, he was a lecture professor funded by K. C. Wong Education Foundation in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, about 2 weeks in December, 2018.

Professor Xiaodong Zhang has published more than 130 papers, include 44 papers indexed by SCI & about 92 papers indexed by EI, and won 20 Patents of invention & 10 Design Patents, and served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology & Editor of Intelligent Service Robotics. He won best paper award of the 2008 International Conference on Rehabilitation in China, best session paper award of CCCT 2010 in USA, best application paper award of IEEE URAI 2016 in China, outstanding paper award of IEEE URAI 2017 in Korea, finalist best paper award of IEEE CYBER 2019 in China, respectively. He served the IEEE NEMS 2015 as the local arrangement chair, the IEEE URAI 2016 & URAI 2017 as a program co-chair, and the IEEE CYBER 2020 as the General Chair. His recent research interests are Robotics and Intelligent System, Bio-mechatronics technology, EEG/EMG signal processing and its application on robotics, intelligent measurement and control technology, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Wenfeng Hu

Central South University, China

Biography: 

Dr. Wenfeng Hu is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha, China. He received the M. Eng. degree in computer software and theory from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and biomedical engineering from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2016. In 2015 and 2016, he won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award in City University of Hong Kong, in 2019, he was awarded the "Zadeh Best Conference Paper Award Finalist" in IEEE ICCSS 2019 Conference, in 2021, he was awarded the "HNAAI Outstanding Master's Thesis Award" (as the supervisor). He has published more than 30 papers in the top peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE TAC, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and 3 papers were among the 1% Highly Cited Paper by ESI. He received the Excellent Young Scientist Fund from the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China in 2023.

His current research interests include multi-agent systems, networked control systems, event-triggered control, and high-speed train control and scheduling.