Bo Li, Associate Professor
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China)
Biography: Bo Li works as the Associate Professor at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the recipient of Outstanding Youth Fund of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation. His research interests include robot dynamics and high-accuracy control, and robotic intelligent manufacturing technology and equipment. He has hosted and completed 7 national and provincial/ministerial projects. He has published 3 monographs/textbooks, more than 30 articles, and received over 20 invention patents and software copyrights. He has won one First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, one First Prize of Jiangsu Province Teaching Achievement Award, one First Prize of Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and one Innovation Award of "Young Scholar" of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Caixu Yue, Professor
Harbin University of Science and Technology (China)
Biography: Caixu Yue is currently the associate dean, professor, and doctoral supervisor in the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology. He won the Yangtze River Scholars 'Young Scholars', the high-level leading Talents of Heilongjiang Province, the Longjiang Scholars 'Young Scholars', the Heilongjiang Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award, and the Heilongjiang Provincial May Fourth Youth Medal. Also, he is the deputy director of the “Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education” and the deputy director of the “National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Efficient Cutting and Cutting Tools”. His academic part-time is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Heilongjiang Tool Technology Association and the Standing Committee of the Production Engineering Branch of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering. He presided over more than 10 national key research and development projects, national natural science fund projects, provincial and ministerial fund projects. He published 113 SCI/EI academic papers, including 2 highly cited 'ESI' papers, 5 published works, applied for 44 patents, obtained 4 software copyrights, and participated in the development of 1 national standard. He won one first prize for the technological invention of China's machinery industry and one second prize for the scientific and technological progress of China's machinery industry.
Changsheng Dai, Professor
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Biography: His research focuses on robotic cell manipulation and medical image analysis. Dr. Dai has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in premium journals and international conference proceedings such as Nature Reviews Urology, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and has received the Best Paper Award in Automation at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award-Honorable Mention, and First Prize Video Awards at 2020 and 2021 Scientific Congress of American Society of Reproductive Medicine. He served as a peer reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
Dong Liu, Associate Professor
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Biography: Dong Liu, associate professor of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian high-level young talent, research fellow of National University of Singapore, committee member of Robotics Sub Committee of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, committee member of Intelligent Robotics Sub Committee of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, editorial board member of Industrial Robot, young editorial board member of Intelligence&Robotics. His main research areas are robot intelligent equipment, medical puncture robot, etc. In recent years, He has been responsible for multiple national projects such as Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint Foundation of Ministry of Education for ZB Pre Research, and Innovation Special Zone Project, published over 90 papers in journals such as IEEE Tmech, TII, TIE, and TIM, and authorized 26 patents. He received the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the First Prize of Dalian Science and Technology Progress Award.
Francesco Maurelli, Professor
Constructor University (Germany)
Biography: Dr. Francesco Maurelli is a Professor in Marine Systems and Robotics at Constructor University, in Bremen (Germany, EU), where he also serves as Program Chair for the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Program. He has obtained his PhD at the Oceans Sytems Lab, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) with a thesis on intelligent AUV localisation. He has been Scientific Manager at Technical University of Munich (Germany, EU) where he lead European-wide initiatives to support moving robotics technology from the lab to the market. After a research stay at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), as a Marie Curie Fellow, he has accepted a faculty position in Jacobs University Bremen, currently Constructor University. Dr. Maurelli’s research interests are focused on persistent autonomy for marine robotics, perception, autonomous navigation, intelligent decision making, sensor data processing and fault management. When not busy with robots or students, he likes to speak the international language Esperanto and play the piano.
Genliang CHEN, Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Biography: Prof. Genliang CHEN received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He is currently the Deputy Direction of the META Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include mechanism design, flexible parallel robots, and multibody dynamics. Prof. Chen received the Outstanding Youth Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and awarded as the Xiong-Youlun Zhihu Outstanding Young Scholar in 2018. He is correctly serving as the associated editors of Robotica and Meccanica. Prof. Chen has published more than 60 SCI papers, including IEEE T-RO, Science Advances and MMT, etc. and four times of best paper awards of international conferences.
Guoteng Zhang, Associate Professor
Shandong University (China)
Biography: Guoteng Zhang received his B. Eng. degree in automation, and the D. Eng. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Senior Researcher with Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan. He is currently an Associate Research Professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, where he is also working as the Vice Director for the Department of Robotics Engineering. His research interests include legged robots and dynamic control.
Jianwei Ma, Professor
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Biography: Jianwei Ma, is currently a professor and a PhD candidate supervisor in School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. The research team focuses on the direction of mechanical manufacturing, mainly engaged in the research work of surface machining and process control of difficult-to-machine materials, laser precision machining and process control, robot-assisted machining planning and control. He has successively undertaken more than 10 scientific research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science and Technology Major Project of China, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, et al.
Jixiang Yang, Professor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)
Biography:r. Yang is currently a Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from HUST in 2015. From 2012 to 2014, he was a joint Ph.D. student with the University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver, Canada. From 2015 to 2017, and from 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in HUST and UBC, respectively. His research interests include measurement, trajectory optimization, dynamics modeling, position/force control of robotic manufacturing. He has published 38 journal papers as the first or corresponding author on Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and engineering, etc. He has received several awards for his research and teaching.
Te Li, Associate Professor
Dalian University of Technology (China)
Biography: Te Li received the Ph.D degree in 2016 from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a visiting professor of University of Toronto in 2023. He is an associate professor, doctoral tutor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. He is a senior member of China Mechanical Engineering Society, and IEEE member. His research interests include bionic robotics, special robot, and robotic intelligent manufacturing. He has undertaken more than 15 projects from National Natural Science Fund, National Key R&D Program, State Key Laboratory of Robotics and enterprise contracts. He has received several prizes, including first prize of Dalian Science and Technology Progress Award, third prizes of Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Academic Achievements.
Tianliang Hu, Professor
Shandong University (China)
Biography: Tianliang Hu received his BS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Shandong University in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He was a visiting Ph.D. student in the IMS Lab at the University of California, Davis, from February 2007 to February 2008, funded by CSC. He began his career at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, in January 2009. In January 2020, he was honored with the title of Qilu Young Scholar Professor by Shandong University. Additionally, in January 2021, he was recognized as the Taishan Scholar (Young Expert) of Shandong Province. Presently, he holds the position of Director at the Shandong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing and Control System. Prof. Hu's research interests include intelligent manufacturing, digital twins, CNC technology, and robotics. His work has been supported by over 20 notable national and provincial research projects. Furthermore, Prof. Hu is highly active in the standardization work of the manufacturing industry. He holds the position of Vice Secretary of SAC/TC159/SC1 and serves as the working group convener of IEC/TC44/MT60204-34 and SAC/TC22/IWG4. He has contributed significantly to the development of more than 10 international and national standards related to the manufacturing industry.
Xian Guo, Associate Professor
Nankai University (China)
Biography: Xian Guo received the B.S. degree in mechanical design, manufacturing, and automation from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics from the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Nankai University, Tianjin, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems. In recent years, he has combined artificial intelligence algorithms with the motion control of bionic robots to explore the application of deep reinforcement learning in the motion control of bionic robots. At the same time, he has actively applied the deep reinforcement learning to robot game. At present, he has published more than 40 papers in important academic journals and conferences.
Yinlong Zhang, Associate Professor
Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Biography: Dr. Yinlong Zhang received his Ph. D. in control theory and control engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is currently an Associate Professor at Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include intelligent robotics, multi-modal perception, computer vision, and visual surveillance for industrial safety & security. He has served as the Associate Editor of InderScience IJSISE and co-chair of the International Conference on Social Robotics in 2019. He has published over 60 academic papers, including the journal papers such as IEEE JAS, JBHI, TIM, RAS, and conference papers such as ICRA, IROS.