Keynote Speaker Ⅰ
Prof. Guang‑Ren Duan
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, FIEEE, FIET, FCAA and FIFAC
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Biography: Guang-Ren Duan is Fellow of CAA, IEEE, IFAC and IET, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, P. R. China, in 1989. After a two-year post-doctoral experience at the same university, he became professor of control systems theory at HIT in 1991. He visited the University of Hull, the University of Sheffield, and also the Queen's University of Belfast, UK, from December 1996 to October 2002. He is the author and coauthor of five books and over 600 SCI-indexed publications. His research interests include both linear and nonlinear control, and their applications in spacecraft and robotics. He founded the annual Internatinal Conference on Fully Actuated System Theory and Applications (FASTA) in 2022, with both FASTA 2025 and 2026 already attracted more than a thousand participants. He also founded the TC on Fully Actuated System Approach, IEEE SMC Society, in 2024, and has been general chairs for several international conferences including IFAC ACA 2025 and FASTA 2022-2026, and has been invited to give plenary talks at more than 40 international conferences, including IFAC TDS 2021, IEEE ARM 2020, IEEE ICRA 2021, IEEE IECON 2023, SICE-ICASE 2006, SICE 2014, CCC 2021, and CAC 2024. He is the winner of several awards, including two Chinese National Awards of Natural Sciences and the IEEE Rudolf Chope Award, and was ranked No.1 in the subfield of Industry Engineering and Automation in the Elsevier-Stanford "World's Top 2% Scientists" program by Single Recent Year Scientific Impact (2025).
Speech Title: Fully-Actuated System Theory and Applications
Abstract: TBD
Keynote Speaker Ⅱ
Prof. Gary Yen
FIEEE, FIET, FIAPR
Oklahoma State University, USA / Sichuan University, China
Biography: Dr Gary G. Yen is a Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University, as well as a Chair Professor at Sichuan University, specializing in intelligent control, neural networks, evolutionary multi-objective optimization, and conditional health monitoring. His research has been supported by agencies such as the DoD, DoE, NASA, NSF and NSFC. An elected Fellow of IEEE, IET, and IAPR, Prof Yen served as President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010–2011), was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and has earned distinguished honors including the OSU Regents Distinguished Research Award and the IEEE CIS Meritorious Service Award.
Speech Title: Multi-Objective AI Applied to Electronic Engineering
Abstract: TBD
Keynote Speaker Ⅲ
Prof. Eric Rogers
FIEEE, FIET, FIMechE
University of Southampton, UK
Biography: Professor Eric Rogers is a member of research groups including the Vision, Learning and Control group, Centre for Robotics, and CRAFT at University of Southampton. His research focuses heavily on control systems theory, particularly Iterative Learning Control (ILC), repetitive processes, and multidimensional systems theory. He has applied this expertise to healthcare and rehabilitation robotics—such as stroke recovery via functional electrical stimulation and haptic feedback—as well as autonomous systems, satellite formation flying, and fluid flow control. He has 637 publications and has served as Editor-in-Chief for prominent academic journals including the International Journal of Control, and Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing.
Speech Title: Iterative Learning Systems and Control
Abstract: TBD
Keynote Speaker Ⅳ
Prof. Wen-Hua Chen
FIEEE, FIET, FIMechE
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Biography: Professor Wen-Hua CHEN is Head of Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and Director of the Research Centre for Low Altitude Economy at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. An internationally renowned scholar in control systems and autonomous vehicles, he has made pioneering contributions to nonlinear disturbance observer-based control, model predictive control, and unmanned aerial vehicles for more than two decades, and founded the Loughborough Centre for Autonomous Systems and Control. Prof. Chen has published over 350 papers with more than 24,000 citations, earning recognition among Stanford University's "World's Top 2% Scientists" for his influential work in industrial engineering and automation.
Speech Title: Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Systems
Abstract: TBD