Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Robert Minasian
IEEE Life Fellow, OSA Fellow, Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW
The University of Sydney, Australia
Biography: Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. His research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, and he is internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 400 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He has presented 83 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Papers at leading international conferences. He has served on numerous steering and technical committes of international conferences. He is the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.
Prof. David Yongduan Song
Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Chinese Automation Association
Chongqing University, China
Biography: David Yongduan Song, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Chinese Automation Association.He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, in 1992. He held a tenured full professor position with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA, from 1996 to 2008, and a Langley Distinguished Professor position with the National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, USA, from 2005 to 2008. He was one of the six Langley Distinguished Professors with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), and the Founding Director of the Center for Cooperative Systems with NIA. He is currently the Dean of the School of Automation, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, and the Founding Director of the Institute of Smart Engineering, Chongqing University.
Dr. Song is a leading researcher in neural networks (NN) based adaptive control, significantly contributing to both NN theory methods and engineering applications. He is very active as associate editors for top IEEE journals, including IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Trans. on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. As a scientific leader in the field of systems and control, he has been serving on various national and international technical committees.
Prof. Song has made original contributions in neural network adaptive control of nonlinear systems with real world applications, which can be assessed by his publications (over 200 papers) in prestigious international journals, including IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-FS, IEEE T-SMC, IEEE T-Cybernetics, IEEE T-AC, IEEE T-IE and Automatica. He authored/co-authored 11 books in the field of control and artificial intelligence. He also held over 50 patents, and has given numerous keynote speeches and invited talks, chaired several conferences.