Prof. Maria Pia Fanti

Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Experience: Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Currently, she is IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. Her research interests include management and modeling of transportation, logistics and manufacturing systems; discrete event systems; Petri nets; consensus protocols; fault detection. Prof. Fanti has published more than 325 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. She was senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and she is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was member at large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and currently she is member of the AdCom of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference.

Prof. Kun Li

Chongqing University, China

Experience: Distinguished Professor of "Hongshen Young Scholars", Ph.D. supervisor, overseas talents. Obtained Bachelor's degree from Jilin University, obtained a Philosophy degree from Tsinghua University. In February 2017, he went to the University of Texas at El Paso for postdoctoral research and served as Prof. Lawrence E. Murr (The pioneer in additive manufacturing in the US) and R.D.K. Misra's Ph.D. student co-supervisor. The scientific research achievements won the University of Texas Researcher Award 2018. In April 2019, he served as a senior researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh. In August 2020, he was hired as a "Hongshen Young Scholar" Distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor of Chongqing University, engaged in teaching and research work. Mainly engaged on additive manufacturing, intelligent 3D net forming, high-performance materials and phase change, and material computing. He has published more than 40 papers in famous journals and conferences such as "Additive Manufacturing", "Journal of Materials Science and Technology", "Materials Science and Engineering: A", and "Journal of Nuclear Materials". Served as the reviewer of famous journals in the fields of "Acta Materialia", "Materials Research Letters", "International Journal of Plasticity" and other fields.

Prof. Teng Li

Shandong University, China

Experience: Teng Li, Professor of School of Control Science and Engineering at Shandong University,  graduated from the University of British Columbia. He dedicates his research on robotics and intelligent  unmanned systems, focusing on the theories of time series forecasting and spatial field analysis using  deep learning and artificial intelligence, and further implementing on the applications of structural and  environmental monitoring. He has published over 30 papers including IEEE Transactions on Systems,  Man, and Cybernetics: System and other leading journals and conferences. He is the executive director  of the SDU-Fengshuo Intelligent Technology Center, the Program Co-Chair of ISBIR 2022, the  Publication Chair of IEEE ICCSE 2021, the Session Co-Chair of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2017, the Technical  Program Committee member of HP3C 2023 and CSCWD 2022, the Local Arrangement Committee  member of IEEE CASE 2019. He is also the Reviewer Committee member of Electronics and  Mechatronic Systems and Control. He serves as the Committee member of the National Contest of  Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Shandong Province). He has participated in many international and  national academic conferences and has been invited to give presentations at the University of Toronto,  Chinese University of Hong Kong, and other research institutes.

Assoc. Prof. Panbao Wang

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Wang Panbao, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, IEEE Senior Member, works at the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Harbin Institute of Technology, serving as the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Energy Storage and Power Conversion Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Engaged in scientific research on microgrid operation control, electrical inspection robot technology, and more than 60 SCI/EI papers (25 SCI papers and 2 highly cited papers), authorized more than 20 national invention patents and 1 international patent. Hosted more than 10 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's General and Youth Program, National Key Research and Development Program sub projects, and won the second prize in Natural Science from the Chinese Society of Automation. Selected as one of the top 2% global scientists in 2023. Edited by Tsinghua University Press as the chief editor of one intelligent car competition textbook, with a publication volume of over 10000 copies.