Prof. Mohamad Sawan IEEE Fellow /Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada Westlake University, China Biography: Mohamad Sawan is Chair Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, and Emeritus Professor in Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. He is the founder and director of the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advances-on-Chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech) in Westlake University, and of the Polystim Neurotech Lab in Polytechnique Montreal. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices (2001-2015) and was leading the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ), Canada (1999-2018). He is Co-Founder, Associate Editor and was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2016-2019). He is Founder and Co-Founder of several International conferences and working groups in bioelectronics such IEEE NewCAS, BioCAS, etc. Dr. Sawan published more than 1000 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, one Handbook, three books, 13 book chapters, 15 patents, and 30 other patents are pending. He received several awards, among them the Barbara Turnbull Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the J.A. Bombardier and Jacques-Rousseau Awards from the Canadian ACFAS, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the Medal of Merit from the President of Lebanon, the Chinese National Friendship Award, and the Shanghai International Collaboration Award. Dr. Sawan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sciences of Canada (FRSC), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institutes of Canada (FEIC), a Life Fellow of the IEEE (LFIEEE), and an “Officer” of the National Order of Quebec. |
Prof. Yan Zhang IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow,Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. University of Oslo, Norway Biography: Yan Zhang is currently a Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. He holds the titles of IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He is an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Recognized globally as a “Highly Cited Researcher” for six consecutive years since 2018, his recent primary research focuses on next-generation wireless communication networks and intelligent secure Internet of Things (IoT). His research contributions in related fields have been cited over 48,000 times, with an H-index of 110. Currently, he serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), a Senior Editor of IEEE Systems, and is on the editorial boards of multiple IEEE Transactions/Magazines journals as well as several domestic core journals. |
Prof. Qinxi Dong Foreign Academician of the Engineering Academy of Japan, Fellow of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, internationally renowned expert in super-parallel computing, developer of the supercomputing software support platform EduS/FrontISTR, and master-level talent of Hainan Province. Hainan University, China Biography: Dr. Qinxi Dong holds the position of Level-II Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Hainan University. He is also an esteemed Foreign Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ), elected in 2019, and a Member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), elected in 2020. Furthermore, he serves as a specially-appointed expert in the Overseas Expert Team of the Chunhui Plan, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education. In 1986, Dr. Dong graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Solid Mechanics from the School of Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology. He subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Computational Mechanics from the same institution in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 1997. From 1998 to 2000, he pursued postdoctoral research at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Professor Dong boasts over four decades of experience in the development of computer-aided engineering (CAE) industrial software across diverse domains. He is proficient in the core algorithms and data storage formats of European and American scientific computing industrial software, enabling him to adeptly interpret and modify industrial software source code. His long-term dedication to research on supercomputing algorithms and structural big data storage in supercomputing environments has led to the development of the domestically controllable supercomputing simulation platform, DonSys. He has successfully applied his research findings to various fields, including earthquake engineering, engineering geology, fluid mechanics, multi-field coupling, intelligent manufacturing, and the formation and function of novel composite materials. This has culminated in a comprehensive suite of engineering application systems encompassing supercomputing algorithm optimization, supercomputing software support, and big data analysis. Notably, the E-scale (capable of performing 1018 floating-point operations per second) supercomputing software he developed has become indispensable in disaster prevention and mitigation projects and composite material simulation in Japan, garnering significant influence, revenue, and international acclaim. Professor Dong spearheaded the development of the domestically controllable high-end CAE industrial software—DonSys Supercomputing Simulation Platform—which transcends the limitations of supercomputers, PC clusters, notebook hardware architectures, and core counts. This platform has passed dual certification from the Kylin system and PKS information innovation compatibility certification and was designated as the domestic software for the CAE track at the Third National College Students’ Contest on Application and Design Innovation of Domestic Software. Professor Dong has led and participated in numerous fund projects, including the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science’s Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research and the “Flagship 2020 Initiative” E-scale supercomputing numerical simulation software platform. He has authored over 80 papers in prestigious international journals, co-edited two academic books, and received three paper awards from the JSCE. Since joining Hainan University as a master-level talent in 2020, Professor Dong has established the “Ecological Carbon Sink Big Data Supercomputing Research and Innovation Team,” in which he engaged in the supercomputing numerical simulations of marine pollution, marine numerical modeling, flexible oil and gas pipelines, and power battery heat generation patterns throughout their lifecycle. He has also delved into research on the health status assessment and safety warning of power batteries based on big data. |
Prof. Youmin Zhang IEEE Fellow/CSME Fellow Concordia University, Canada, China Biography: Prof. Youmin Zhang, IEEE Fellow and CSME Fellow, is a Full Professor in the Department of Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aviation Design and Innovation at Concordia University, Canada, and has consistently ranked among Stanford University's list of the World's Top 2% Scientists. Prof. Zhang’s research focuses on control theory and engineering applications, specializing in fault detection and diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, perception and obstacle avoidance, aircraft navigation, guidance and control, fault-tolerant cooperative control of multi-agent systems (aerial, ground, marine, and wind-field), and their integration with remote sensing for forest fire prevention and resource management, power line inspection and monitoring, environmental monitoring, and search and rescue operations. Since 1992, he has published over 600 journal and conference papers and 10 monographs, with 29,832 citations h-index of 86, and i10-index of 415 (Google Scholar). In the 2024 Meta Analytics LLC global rankings, he ranked first worldwide in both "Aircraft Systems" (Lifetime) and "Fault Tolerance" (Lifetime), and ranked 6th worldwide (1st in Canada) for "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" (Lifetime). He serves as an associate editor or editorial board member for over 20 international journals. |
Prof. Zinbin Zheng IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow Sun Yat-sen University,China Biography: Prof. Zheng is Dean of School of Software Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University, IEEE-Fellow, IET Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, Deputy Director of National Digital Home Engineering Technology Research Center, and Director of Blockchain Engineering Technology Research Center of Guangdong. Prof. Zheng has published multitudes of research papers, with over a Google Scholar citation index of over 40,000 and an H-index of 92. He has chaired a range of national key R&D projects and programs funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China. Among the honors Prof. Zheng has won are the Second Prize of Natural Science issued by the Ministry of Education, the Second Prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, to name a few. His research interests include trusted large models, block chain, Web3, and software reliability, etc. |
Prof. Liuqing Yang IEEE Fellow The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)，China Biography: Prof. Liuqing Yang received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2004; and she is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAIA. Before joining The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), she held faculty positions at the University of Florida, Colorado State University, and the University of Minnesota. Prof. Yang also serves as the Acting Director of the Low Altitude Systems and Economy Research Institute (LASERi) and the Lead of the Intelligent Transportation (INTR) research direction. Prof. Yang’s research interests cover communications, sensing, and network intelligence. She has authored over 400 journal and conference papers, four book chapters, and five monographs. Her honors include the 2007 ONR Young Investigator Award, the 2009 NSF CAREER Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards. Prof. Yang currently serves on the Editorial Executive Committee (EEC) of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of IET Communications and has served on the editorial boards of several top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. She has held leadership roles in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), and numerous academic conferences. |
Prof. Kai Yang IET Fellow Huazhong University of Science and Technology,China Biography: Kai Yang is a Level-II Professor, Ph.D. supervisor, Changjiang Scholar, and Visiting Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He holds the title of IET Fellow. Professor Yang serves as the Director of a National Makerspace and Incubator funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Director of the Engineering Research Center for New Types of Electrical Machines and Special Electromagnetic |
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