Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker I-Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Full ProfessorHamid Reza Karimi received the B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is currently Professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. From 2009-2016, he has been Full Professor of Mechatronics-Control Systems at University of Agder, Norway. His current research interests include control systems and mechatronics with applications to automotive control systems, robotics, vibration systems and wind energy.
Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machines, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Designs, Subject Editor of the IET Journal of Electronics Letters, Section Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electronics, Subject Editor of the Journal of Science Progress, Subject Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute and a Technical Editor or Associate Editor for some international journals. He is a member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, the Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the Committee on Robust Control, and the Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi has been awarded as the 2016-2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship Award, JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Award, and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung research Award, for instance. He has also participated as keynote/plenary speaker, distinguished speaker or program chair for several international conferences in the areas of Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics.
Keynote Speaker II-Prof. Wenqiang Zhang
Fudan
University, China | Full Professor
Dr. Wenqiang
Zhang, Professor and doctoral supervisor of School of
computer science,Fudan University. Vice President of AI
& Intelligent Robot Institute of Fudan University, and
Vice Director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent
Information.
He engaged in the research
work of robotics, AI, and Intelligent Equipment, etc. He
has published more than 100 papers and applied for more
than 50 invention patents. He has undertaken more than
30 research projects from Science and Technology
Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM), National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of
Education, Shanghai Electric Group, etc. He has created
the China’s first autonomous mental development robot,
and successfully developed robots of Fuwa, Ato, Haibao,
etc
Keynote Speaker III-Prof. Xuechao Duan
Xidian University, China | Full Professor
Dr. Xuechao
Duan received his B.E., M.E and PhD degrees in 2003,
2006, 2008, respectively, in Xidian University, Xi\'an,
China. He was a visiting scholar in Department of
Mechanical Engineering from Apr. 2013 to Apr. 2014, in
the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Now he is a memeber of Key Labarotory of Electronic
Structure Design, Ministry of Education, China.
He is also a Senior Member of Chinese Mechanical
Engineering Society ,a member of the Institution of
Engineering Technology and a member of the Chinese
Institute of Electronics.
Research Interests
1. Parallel robots: redundantly actuated,flexure based-,
and lower-mobility parallel manipulators.
2. Mechatronics: Novel actuating and measuring
technology for advanced electronic equipments.