Speakers 2025
Keynote Speaker Ⅰ
Prof. Honghai Liu
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and JSPS Fellow
Brief Introduction: Honghai Liu (Member, Academia Europaea; Fellow, IEEE/IET), received the PhD in intelligent robotics from King’s College London, UK. He is a Professor at State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and Systems, HIT Shenzhen; He is also a Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is interested in multimodal sensing, neurorobotics and embodied intelligence for theory and applications with an emphasis on approaches that could make contribution to the intelligent connection of perception to action using contextual information. He has authored/co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers with several best paper awards.
Keynote Speaker Ⅱ
Prof. Ning Xi
The University of Hong Kong, China
IEEE Fellow
Brief Introduction: Professor Ning Xi received D.Sc. degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in December 1993. Currently he is the Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation, the Director of Advanced Technologies Institute, and the Head of Department of Data and Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a University Distinguished Professor, the John D. Ryder Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Michigan State University in United States. Prof. Xi is a fellow of IEEE. He also served as the President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2010-2011) and the President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2018). His research interests include robotics, artificial intelligence, manufacturing automation, micro/nano manufacturing, nano-bio technology, sensors, and intelligent control and systems.
Keynote Speaker Ⅲ
Prof. Jianbin Qiu
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
IEEE Fellow
Brief Introduction: Jianbin Qiu received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He also received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2009. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. His current research interests include intelligent and hybrid control systems, signal processing, and robotics. Prof. Qiu is a Fellow of IEEE and serves as the chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Harbin Chapter, China. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.