Conference Program

Zhong-Ping Jiang

Institute Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA

Dr. Zhong-Ping Jiang received the M.Sc. in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1989, and Ph.D. in automatic control and mathematics from ParisTech-Mines, France, in 1993. He is currently an Institute Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. His main research interests include stability theory, robust/adaptive/distributed nonlinear control, robust adaptive dynamic programming, reinforcement learning and their applications to information, mechanical, transportation and biological systems. Professor Jiang currently serves the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society’s Board of Governors and leads the Distinguished Lecturer program. He has served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor and Associate Editor for numerous journals. He is among the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers and Stanford’s Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists. In 2022, he received the Excellence in Research Award from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Prof. Jiang is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe) and an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and also is a Fellow of the IEEE, IFAC, CAA, AAIA and AAAS.

Jinjun Shan

Full Professor of Space Engineering, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Canada

Dr. Jinjun Shan is a Full Professor of Space Engineering at the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University. He is the founding director of Spacecraft Dynamics Control and Navigation Laboratory (SDCNLab) at York University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2002. His research progress is demonstrated through over 240 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications and 2 issued patents. Prof. Shan’s accomplishments in research and engineering education have seen him recognized with prestigious recognitions such as the Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Fellow of American Astronautical Society (AAS), and a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA).

Tielong Shen

Emeritus Professor, Sophia University; Distinguished Professor, Dalian University of Technology

Dr Tielong Shen received his Ph.D. from Sophia University in March 1992. In April of the same year, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Sophia University, Tokyo, as an assistant professor. He was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor, Professor, and Specially Appointed Professor, and also served as Director of the Institute for Environment and Society. Since April 2024, he has been an Emeritus Professor of Sophia University, and Distinguished Professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. Professor Shen’s research focuses on control theory of dynamical systems and its applications to mechatronic systems and automotive powertrain systems. He has been actively involved in academic service in the field of automatic control worldwide. He served as the General Chair of the 2015 and the 2021 Annual Conference of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan. He also served as General Chair of the 6th and 7th IFAC ECOMS. Over the past two decades, Professor Shen has continuously led multiple major research projects funded by the JSPS. He has also directed several international collaborative projects supported by the JST, including China–Japan and China–Japan–Korea cooperative programs. Furthermore, he has maintained long-term industry–academia collaborations with Toyota Motor Corp. and other Japanese automotive companies, focusing on the development of optimization-based control strategies and theoretical methods for automotive powertrain systems. In recognition of his contributions, Professor Shen received the 8th Outstanding Contribution Award at the Chinese Control Conference in 2021. He is a former Director of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, and has been elected as a SICE Fellow.

C. P. Wong

Regents’ Professor and the Charles Smithgall Institute-Endowed Chair, Georgia Tech, USA

Professor C. P. Wong is a Regents’ Professor and the Charles Smithgall Institute-Endowed Chair at Georgia Tech. He is also an Emeritus Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a foreign number of the Chinese National Academy of Engineering. After his doctoral study from the Pennsylvania State University, he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories for also 20 years and became an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow in 1992. His research interests lie in the fields of materials for solar energy harvesting, energy storage and microelectronic packaging. Professor Wong has published widely with over 850 peer reviewed journal papers, 1,200 Conference Proceedings papers and 12 books. He is listed as one of the Highly Cited Researchers Award (Released by Clarivate) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. His H-index is 100. He holds over 65 US patents and has made significant contributions to the industry by pioneering new materials that fundamentally changed semiconductor packaging technology. Professor Wong was awarded numerous international honors, such as the AT&T Bell Labs Fellow Award in 1992, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000, the Georgia Institute of Technology Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award in 2004, the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Field Award in 2005, the IEEE EPS Society Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award in 1995, and the International Dresden Barkhausen Award (Germany) in 2012.

Tao Yang

Professor, Northeastern University, China

Dr. Tao Yang is a Professor at Northeastern University, China, a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, and a National High-level Youth Talent. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2012. Before joining Northeastern University’s State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries in 2019, he held research and faculty positions at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA), and the University of North Texas (USA). Professor Yang is an IET Fellow. His research focuses on distributed cooperative control and optimization, industrial artificial intelligence, and the integration of intelligent optimization and control. He has led multiple Key and Major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the National Key R&D Program. Dr. Yang has authored over 100 journal papers, including more than 50 in IEEE Transactions and IFAC journals. His accolades include the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Second Prize, 2022) and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) Natural Science Award (Second Prize, 2023). Dr. Yang actively serves the academic community as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Acta Automatica Sinica and as an Associate Editor for IEEE TCST, IEEE TCNS, and IEEE TNNLS. He also chairs the CAA Big Data Technical Committee and serves on multiple technical committees within IEEE CSS, IEEE IES, and IFAC.