Prof. Junlong Chen
IEEE Life Fellow、IAPR Fellow/AAAS Fellow
South China University of Technology, China (click)
Professor Junlong Chen (C. L. Philip Chen) is the Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology.He is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Russian Academy of Engineering. Professor Chen is an IEEE Life Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow.He has published over 1,200 papers in internationally renowned journals, including more than 800 articles in IEEE Transactions journals, and has received multiple Best Paper Awards. As of January 2025, his work has been cited over 66,000 times on Google Scholar with an H-index of 121, and over 55,000 times according to Web of Science, including 53 highly cited papers (top 1%) and 4 hot papers (top 0.1%). Professor Chen has received five Outstanding Contribution Awards from various IEEE societies, the prestigious IEEE Norbert Wiener Award in 2018, the IEEE Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award in 2021, and the Wu Wen Jun AI Prize for Outstanding Contribution in Artificial Intelligence in 2021. He has also been recognized as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for six consecutive years from 2018 to 2023.
Prof. Zongze Wu
RAE Foreign Full Member (Academician)
Shenzhen University, China (click)
Zongze Wu, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean at the School of Electromechanical Engineering and Control at Shenzhen University. He is also a part-time professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Xi'an Jiaotong University.He is a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and a leading talent in scientific and technological innovation for young and middle-aged scientists under the "National Innovation Talent Promotion Program."Wu is recognized as a leading talent in technological innovation under the Guangdong Province "Special Support Plan," and serves as the chief scientist for the 2030 National Major Project on New Generation Artificial Intelligence. He is the chair of the Industrial Vision Professional Committee (established) of the Chinese Association of Automation, the chief scientist for industrial vision applications at the National Engineering Laboratory for Visual Information Processing and Applications, and the technical leader of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Base. His research focuses on the new generation of artificial intelligence, industrial vision, and intelligent manufacturing.
Prof. Xianmin Zhang
South China University of Technology, China (click)
He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a national-level candidate of the National "Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project", and a specially-appointed professor of the Pearl River Scholars Program. He is currently the dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at South China University of Technology and the academic leader of the discipline of Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation. Graduated from the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Beihang University in 1993 with a Doctor of Engineering degree. He/She has conducted postdoctoral research at Northwestern Polytechnical University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in the United States respectively. He was exceptionally promoted to professor in 1998. Obtained the qualification of doctoral supervisor in 2008. In 2012, he/she became the dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering. He has concurrently served as the Chairperson of the China Committee of the International Federation of Mechanical and Machine Sciences (IFToMM) (since 2016), the Deputy Director of the Mechanical Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society, and the Deputy Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, among other positions. Served as the associate editor of "ASME Journal of Mechanismand Robotics" (2013-2016) and "Chinese Journal of Mechanical" Editorial board member of Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Vibration Engineering, China Mechanical Engineering, Natural Science Edition of Journal of South China University of Technology, and Journal of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, etc. The research fields involve robot mechanisms, precision positioning and precision operating systems, precision electronic equipment and modern control technologies, etc. The large-scale environmental protection equipment automatic monitoring system developed by the research team led by the leader for the enterprise has been exported to Russia. The "Lead-free assembly Complete Equipment for Circuit Boards", "automatic optical Inspection Equipment" and "Complete Equipment for Photovoltaic Solar Cell Production" developed in cooperation with enterprises have been successfully industrialized, achieving remarkable economic and social benefits.
Prof. Simon K.S. Cheung
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China (click)
Currently the Chief Information Officer in Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Dr. Simon K.S. Cheung has been working in the higher education sector for over 30 years in various administrative capacities, mainly in IT and educational technology, while also undertaking academic duties such as teaching, research, course development, and programme accreditation. He received his BSc and PhD in Computer Science, and Master of Public Administration from City University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong respectively. Dr. Cheung had been admitted as IET fellow, IMA fellow, BCS fellow, HKIE fellow, HKCS fellow, and IEEE senior member. He is active in research, with over 200 publications in two distinct areas, namely, software and systems engineering, and innovation and technology in education. Among other consultancy roles, he serves in the advisory board and editorial board for reputable international journals in these areas, including ETHE (SSCI, Q1), AJET (SSCI, Q1), and SN Computer Science (Scopus). Awards in recognition of his achievements include the Outstanding Research Publication Award from Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Outstanding CIO Award from Hong Kong IT Joint Council, and Honour for Excellence, CIO Award from the CIO Asia.
Prof. Xueyan Zhao
South China University of Technology, China (click)
Xueyan Zhao, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund and the Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Scientist Fund. She received her Ph.D. in June 2014 from the School of Automation Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology. From August 2018 to August 2019, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
She currently serves as a member of the Control Theory Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), the Youth Working Committee of CAA, the 2nd Female Scientist Committee of CAA, the 1st Uncertainty System Analysis and Simulation Committee of the Chinese Society of Simulation, and as the secretary-general and member of the TCCT Stochastic Systems Control Group of CAA. She is a senior member of IEEE and CAA. Professor Zhao is also an associate editor for the journals Journal of System Science and Complexity and Complex System Modeling and Simulation (both ranked in JCR Q2).
She serves as a communications reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and an expert in the Talent Expert Database of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department. She received the 2016 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Chinese Association of Automation and the 2015 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from South China University of Technology. She was invited as a keynote speaker at the 2018 China Automation Conference in Xi’an. Professor Zhao has published more than 40 papers in prestigious international and domestic journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. She has led over ten national and provincial research projects, including the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund and the Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Scientist Fund. Her main research interests lie in the stability analysis and control theory of complex dynamical systems.
Assoc. Prof. Ge Ma
Guangzhou University, China (click)
Ge Ma’s research interests include image processing and machine vision, as well as control of flexible structures. She has led research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation. She has also participated in key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Major Science and Technology Project (Project 02), and major projects in advanced manufacturing under the National 863 Program.
Professor Ma is the principal instructor for courses such as Circuits and Fundamentals of Machine Vision. She has led Guangdong Provincial teaching reform projects including the ideological and political education demonstration project and higher education teaching reform projects. She has received several awards, including the first prize in the 6th Guangdong Provincial University (Undergraduate) Young Teachers Teaching Competition and the second prize in the 2nd National University Teaching Innovation Competition (Guangdong Provincial Division).
The courses Circuits and Fundamentals of Machine Vision have both been awarded four-star course status.