Dialogue on General Issues in Systems and Control
漫谈系统与控制
Panelists (By the alphabetic order of their surnames)
➢ Professor Li Qiu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
➢ Professor Qing-Guo Wang, Beijing Normal University & Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China
➢ Professor Xiaohua Xia, University of Pretoria, South Africa
➢ Professor Yun Zou, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Chair: Professor Ben M. Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
The 43rd Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2024) proudly presents this plenary panel session to chat on general issues related systems and control. We are honored that four prominent experts and educators in the field will join this panel to share their experience, expertise and visions, and to discuss challenges and opportunities in systems and control in general. Through direct dialog with these renowned panelists, we aim to gain a deeper insight into some fundamental and emerging problems in research and applications. This panel will also serve as a platform for exchanging ideas and debating general issues in systems and control. It offers an opportunity too for the audience, students and junior researchers in particular to hear the opinions and advices of our renowned experts on issues we often face at the early stage of our careers or studies.
Professor Li Qiu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1990. After briefly working in the Canadian Space Agency, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Waterloo), and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Minneapolis), he joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1993, where he is now a Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering. In 2023, he takes a leave from HKUST to work in Southern University of Science and Technology as a chair professor.
Professor Qiu’s research interests include system, control, optimization theory, and mathematics for information technology, as well as their applications in manufacturing industry and energy systems. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and an associate editor of Automatica. He was the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference 2009. He was a Distinguished Lecturer from 2007 to 2010 and was a member of the Board of Governors in 2012 and 2017 of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as a member of the steering committee and as a vice president of Asian Control Association (ACA). He is now a member of the steering committee of the International Symposiums of Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS). He is the founding chairperson of the Hong Kong Automatic Control Association. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IFAC.
Professor Qing-Guo Wang is a Chair Professor at Beijing Normal University & Hong Kong Baptist University (BNU-HKBU) United International College (UIC), and a Professor with BNU-UIC Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networks, China. He is a member of Academy of Science of South Africa, and A-rated Scientist of the National Research Foundation of South Africa. He studied at Zhejiang University from 1978 to 1987 with a PhD degree. He received the Young Scientist Award of Association of Science and Technology of China in 1990. He held AvH Research Fellowship of Germany from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 2015, he was with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National University of Singapore, where he became a Full Professor in 2004. He was a Distinguished Professor with Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2015–2020. Dr Wang’s research lies in the field of Automation and AI with focuses on modeling, estimation, prediction, control and optimization. He has published 400 technical papers in international journals and seven research monographs. He received 22,000 citations with H-index of 80. He was presented with the award of the most cited article of Automatica in 2006–2010 and was in the Thomson Reuters list of the highly cited researchers 2013 in Engineering. He received the prize of the most influential paper of the 30 years of Control Theory and Applications in 2014. He was on Stanford University list of World’s Top 2% Scientists each year (both career and year). He was ranked by research.com in 2023 within the top 500 scientists of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in the world. He is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the ISA Transactions.
Professor Xiaohua Xia is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of South African Academy of Engineering, and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, He was a Changjiang Chair professor at Wuhan University, China; a distinguished professor at Northeast University, China; the director of the Centre of New Energy Systems, the National Hub for the Postgraduate Program in Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management, and an A-rated professor by National Research Foundation of South Africa. His theoretical research interests are focused on nonlinear observers, and generally nonlinearity and complexity. He successfully designed a longitudinal control system of the heavy haul trains of Spoornet; effectively tackled the vaccine readiness and therapeutical effectiveness of HIV/AIDS by incorporating systems and control techniques, extensively consulted for the biggest South African industrial companies such as Eskom, Exxaro and AngloGold in their major energy optimisation, usage reduction, and measurement and verification projects, programs and implementations. He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Acta Automatica Sinica, an Editor of SAIEE Africa Research Journal, Associate Editors of Automatica, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems II, is currently sitting at the Editorial Boards of Applied Energy, Advances in Applied Energy and Annual Reviews in Control.
Professor Yun Zou is currently a professor in the School of Automation at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He received the BSc degree in mathematics from Northwestern University, China, in 1983, and the MEng and PhD degrees in automatic control engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Professor Zou is an honorary council member of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a life member of the American Mathematical Society. He serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of All About Systems and Control, Associate Editor of Control Theory and Applications and Electric Power Engineering Technology, and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). His current research interests include integrated design theory and methods of systems and control, control theory and technology of wind power generation systems, analysis and synthesis of multi-time scale systems, and systems man and cybernetics.
