Prof. Mingcong Deng
Fellow IEEE
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Biography: Prof. Mingcong Deng (IEEE Fellow) received his PhD in Systems Science from Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997.04 to 2010.09, he was with Kumamoto University; University of Exeter, UK; NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Okayama University. From 2010.10, he has been with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, as a professor. Now he is the Chair of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Prof. Deng specializes in three complementary areas: Operator based nonlinear fault detection and fault tolerant control design; System design on human factor based robot control; Learning based nonlinear control. Prof. Deng has over 650 publications including 220 journal papers in peer reviewed journals including IEEE Press and other top tier outlets. He serves as a chief editor for 2 international journals, and associate editors of 6 international journals. Prof. Deng is a co-chair of agricultural robotics and automation technical committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; Also a chair of the environmental sensing, networking, and decision making technical committee, IEEE SMC Society. He was the recipient of 2014 & 2019 Meritorious Services Award of IEEE SMC Society, 2020 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award (IEEE RAS Society) and 2024 IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award (IEEE SMC Society). He is a fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan.

 

 

Prof. Haibin Zhu
Fellow IEEE
Nipissing University, Canada

Biography: Dr. Haibin Zhu is a Full Professor and the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program, the Founding Director of the Collaborative Systems Laboratory, a member of Arts and Science Executive Committee, Nipissing University, Canada. He is an affiliate professor of Concordia Univ. and an adjunct professor of Laurentian Univ., Canada. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the National Univ. of Defense Tech. (NUDT), China. He was the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Nipissing University, Canada (2019-2021), a visiting professor and special lecturer in the College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (1999-2002) and a lecturer, an associate professor and a full professor at NUDT (1988-2000). He has accomplished (published or in press) over 300+ research works including 50+ IEEE Transactions articles, six books, five book chapters, four journal issues, and four conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of IEEE and I2CICC (International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing), a Senior Member of ACM, a Full Member of Sigma Xi, and a Life Member of CAST-USA (Chinese Association of Science and Technology, USA).
He is serving as Vice President, Systems Science and Engineering (SSE) (2023-), a member-at-large of the Board of Governors (2022-), and a co-chair (2006-) of the technical committee of Distributed Intelligent Systems of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society (SMCS), SMCS Primary Representative, IEEE Systems Council, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SMC Magazine (2022), Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Systems Journal (2024-), IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems (2018-), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems(2018-), Frontiers of Computer Science (2021-), and IEEE Canada Review (2017-). He was AE of IEEE SMC Magazine (2015-2021), Associate Vice President (AVP), SSE (2021), IEEE SMCS, a Conference (Co-)Chair and Program (Co-)Chair for many international conferences, and a PC member for 150+ academic conferences. 
He is the founding researcher of Role-Based Collaboration and the creator of the E-CARGO model. His research monograph E-CARGO and Role-Based Collaboration can be found  https://www.wiley-vch.de/en/areas-interest/engineering/electrical-electronics-engineering-10ee/systems-engineering-management-10ee9/e-cargo-and-role-based-collaboration-978-1-119-69306-2. The accompanying codes can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/haibinnipissing/E-CARGO-Codes. He has offered 30+ keynote and plenary speeches for international conferences and 90+ invited talks internationally. He has been granted more than $1M CAD from SSHRC, NSERC, IBM, DNDC, DRDC, and OPIC.
He was listed as “Most Influential Robotics Trailblazers, Making Wave in The Industry – 2024”, InsightsSuccess Magazine. He was the recipient of the best paper award in international collaboration from the 25th Int’l conf. on CSCWD, Hangzhou, China, 2022, the meritorious service award from IEEE SMC Society (2018), the chancellor’s award for excellence in research (2011) and two research achievement awards from Nipissing University (2006, 2012), the IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Awards (2004, 2005), the Best Paper Award from the 11th ISPE Int’l Conf. on Concurrent Engineering (ISPE/CE2004), the Educator’s Fellowship of OOPSLA’03, a 2nd class National Award for Education Achievement (1997), and three 1st Class Ministerial Research Achievement Awards from China (1997, 1994, and 1991). 
His research interests include Collaboration/Complex Systems, Human-Machine Systems, Computational Social Systems, Collective Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Engineering, and Distributed Intelligent Systems.

 

Prof. Daowen Qiu
Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Biography: Prof. Daowen Qiu received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2000. During 2000 and 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in computer science with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Since August 2002, he has associated with Sun Yat-Sen University, and then a full Professor of computer science in May 2004. His current research interests include quantum computing, discrete event systems, fuzzy and probabilistic computation, and he has focused on models of quantum and probabilistic computation, quantum information. He is the author or coauthor of more than 180 peer-review papers published in various academic journals and conferences, including Information and Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Physical Review A, Quantum Information and Computation, Journal of Physics A, and Science in China. He has served as editors or associated editors in international academic journals, including: Theoretical Computer Science;  Quantum Reports; Artificial Intelligence Evolution; Frontiers in Computer Science; Open Journal of Optimization.

 

Prof. Yong Yue
Fellow IET, FIMechE, FHEA, Head of Department
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Biography: Yong Yue (BEng Northeastern China, PhD Heriot-Watt UK, CEng, FIET, FIMechE, FHEA) is a Professor at the Department of Computing, and Director of the Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) and Suzhou Municipal Key Lab for Intelligent Virtual Engineering. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (2013-2019). Prior to joining XJTLU, he had held various positions in industry and academia in China and the UK, including Engineer, Project Manager, Professor, Director of Research and Head of Department. Professor Yue has experience in learning and teaching, research and enterprise as well as management. He has led a variety of research and professional projects supported by major funding bodies and industry. He has also lead curriculum development at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has nearly 300 peer-reviewed publications and supervised 38 PhD students to successful completion.