Prof. Xiuxian Li

Tongji University, China

Biography: Xiuxian Li is a professor with National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Autonomous Systems, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from HKU, Hong Kong, in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he has been a research fellow at NTU, Singapore, and he has also been a senior research associate at CityU, Hong Kong, in 2018. He is in the best paper finalist of IEEE RCAR 2018 and ASCC 2024. His research interests include distributed control and optimization, game theory, unmanned systems, as well as applications to autonomous vehicles. He has published more than 50 SCI journal papers, and is a member of AAAI, CICC, CAAI, and a senior member of CAA and IEEE.

Assoc. Prof. Liangming Chen

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: Liangming Chen is an associate professor in the Center for Control Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Before joining SUSTech, he was a postdoctoral research fellow under the supervision of Prof Lihua Xie (Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, IEEE Fellow) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is (was) a guest editor in the SCI journal Electronics, an associate editor in the conference ECC2024、ICARCV 2022, and a co-chair in a session of ICCA 2019. His previous research was supported by a number of research funds from, e.g., National Natural Science Foundation of China. He and his collaborators developed the angle rigidity graph theory and applied it to multi-agent formation control and distributed localization. His research works were published in many top journals, including IEEE TAC, Automatica, IEEE TCST (top journals in control systems society), IEEE TRO (top journal in robotics and automation society) and IEEE TSP (top journal in signal processing society), etc. He was authorized by 4 national patents. His research group in SUSTech focuses on both theoretical and engineering topics mainly in graph rigidity and its applications. His research group aims at obtaining high-impact research results. His current interests include rigidity graph theory and multi-agent systems, unmanned swarm and robotics, brain-inspired intelligence and neural networks. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an associate editor in the editorial board of EUCA. He has been funded by the National Talent Program Youth Project, China and the Shenzhen Overseas Talent Program, China.

Dr. Cong Bi

Nankai University, China

Biography: Cong Bi received the B.Eng. degree in automation from Chang’an University, Xi’an, China, in 2014, the M. Eng. degree in control engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong, in 2021. After briefly working as a Research Assistant at CityU, she joined Nankai University in Tianjin, China where she is a Lecturer with College of Artificial Intelligence. She is now also a postdoctoral under the supervision of Prof. Gang Feng (IEEE Fellow) at CityU. Her research interests include multi-agent systems, time-delayed systems, nonlinear systems. Her research works were published in several journals, including IEEE TAC, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TCNS, etc. She is a member of CAA and IEEE.