Invited Speaker 2026

Invited Speaker Ⅰ

Prof. Huosheng Hu FIET

University of Essex, UK

Biography: Huosheng Hu received his MSc degree in Industrial Automation from Central South University, China, and his PhD degree in Robotics from the University of Oxford, U.K. After conducting robotics research at Oxford for nine years, he joined the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, in 1998, was promoted to Professor in October 2002, and became Emeritus Professor in May 2025. His research interests include artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, human–robot interaction, embedded systems, mechatronics, learning algorithms, and industrial automation.

Prof. Hu has published more than 600 papers in journals, books, and international conferences, earning several Best Paper Awards. His publications have been cited over 22,251 times, with an H-index of 71 (Google Scholar), and he has been recognized among the world's top 2% most cited scholars (2020–2025). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement & Control, a Life Senior Member of IEEE, and a founding member of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Committee on Networked Robots. Prof. Hu has served as Program Chair and as a member of Advisory and Organizing Committees for numerous international conferences, including IEEE IROS, ICRA, ICMA, and ROBIO. He is currently Executive Editor of the International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation and has previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Computing and the MDPI Robotics Journal. 

Speech Title: From Cybernetics to Cognition-The Path to Embodied AI Robots