Organization
General Chair
Ljiljana Trajkovic
Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Research field: Communication networks: Modeling and analysis of computer networks; Characterization and modeling of network traffic; Performance analysis of communication networks; Simulation of protocols and network control algorithms; Intelligent control of communication systems. Nonlinear circuits and systems: Analysis of complex systems and networks; Theory of nonlinear circuits and systems; Software tools for circuit simulation; Homotopy methods for finding dc, Steady-state, and Transient solutions of transistor circuits.
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director, President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Chun-Yi Su
Professor, Concordia University, Canada.
Research field: Control of systems involving non-smooth nonlinearities, Control of robotics and Nonholonomic mechanical systems, Mechatronics, Fuzzy control techniques for nonlinear systems, and Control of metal cutting.
Chun-Yi Su (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 1990. In 1998, after a seven-year stint with the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, he joined the Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he is currently a Professor of mechanical, industrial and aerospace engineering. He is the author or co-author of more than 500 publications, which have appeared in journals, as book chapters and in conference proceedings. His research interests include control theory and its applications to various mechanical systems, with a focus on control of systems involving non-smooth nonlinearities. Since 2019, he has been identified as Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate. Dr. Su was an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and several other journals. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE RA Society. He was with many conferences as an Organizing Committee Member, including the General Chairs and Program Chairs.
Technical Committee Chair
Jingsha He
Professor, Beijing University of Technology, China.
Research field: Information security; Wireless networks; Blockchain technology; Digital forensics.
Jingsha He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China in July 1982 and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in U.S. in December 1984 and December 1990, respectively. Prof. He has been with the Faculty of Information Technology of Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in Beijing, China since August 2003, starting therein as a distinguished professor of the Beijing municipality during the first three years. Prior to joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He had worked for several multi-national companies in the U.S., including IBM Corp. (as a senior computer scientist), MCI Communications Corp. (as a senior engineer) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. (as a senior member of research staff), and published more than 10 papers and received 12 U.S. patents. Since joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He has published over 300 papers in scholarly journals and major international conferences, received 90 Chinese patents and 53 software copyrights and authored or co-authored 9 books in software engineering and information security. Prof. He has been the principal investigator of more than 40 research projects, including grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. Prof. He’s research interests include information security, wireless networks, blockchain technology and digital forensics.
Mohammed Chadli
Professor, University Paris-Saclay, France.
Research field: Filtering and control problems (FDI, FTC); and Applications to vehicle systems; intelligence systems; network systems and cyber-physical systems.
Mohammed Chadli (Senior Member, IEEE) received his MScEng (DEA) from the Engineering School INSA-Lyon (France, 1999) and from “Ecole Normale Sup.” (Mohammedia, Morocco), the PhD thesis in Automatic Control from the University of Lorraine (UL), CRAN-Nancy in 2002 and his habilitation in 2011 at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) Amiens. He was Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the “Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine” (UL, 2000-2004). Since 2004, he was Associate Professor at the UPJV and currently Full Professor at the University Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, IBISC Lab., France. He was a visiting professorship at the TUO-Ostrava (Czech Rep.), UiA (Norway), SMU-Shanghai (2014-2017), NUAA-Nanjing (2018, 2019) and the University of Naples Federico II (Italy, 2019). Dr Chadli’s research interests include filtering and control problems (FDI, FTC) and applications to vehicle systems, intelligence systems, network systems and cyber-physical systems. He is author of books and book chapters (Wiley, Springer, Hermes), of numerous articles published in international referred journals and conference proceedings, and listed in “100 000 Leading Scientists in the World”. Dr. Chadli is a senior member of IEEE. He is in the editorial board (Editor, Associate Editor) of several international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Automatica, the IET Control Theory and Applications, the Franklin Institute Journal, Asian Journal of Control … and was a Guest Editor for Special Issues in international journals. He now serves as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies (Univ Evry), and Chair of the IEEE France Section Control Systems Society Chapter.
Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu
Professor, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania.
Research field: Advanced control of ac drives; Sensorless control; Observers; Sliding-mode control; Power electronics control; Mechatronic systems; Real-time implementations.
Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Caracal, Romania. He received the M.S. degree in applied electronics and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control systems from Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania, in 1977 and 1999, respectively., Since 1984, he has been with the Automation and Applied Informatics Department, Politehnica University Timisoara, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 80 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests include advanced control of ac drives, sensorless control, observers, sliding-mode control, power electronics control, mechatronic systems, and real-time implementations., Dr. Andreescu is a member of the Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronics Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and has been a member of the Engineering Sciences Commission of the National University Research Council.
Technical Committee Member
Adrian David Cheok, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Ali Zolfagharian, Deakin University, Australia
Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Bhekisipho Twala, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Chao Zeng, University of Hamburg, Germany
Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Dimitrios C. RAKOPOULOS, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) , Greece
Haoping Wang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Hasmat Malik, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj, Dayananda Sagar University, India
Kim-Phuc Tran, University of Lille, France
Kulvinder Singh, Chandigarh University, India
M Shamim Kaiser, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Mahdi Bodaghi, Nottingham Trent University, U.K.
Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy
Mehdi Bagheri, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Michele Fiorini, Leonardo S.p.A., Italy
Mohamed Arezki Mellal, M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria
Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, UK
Nianyin Zeng, Xiamen University, China
Omar Ahmed Al-Shebeeb, West Virginia University, USA
Pavlo Krot, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Riman Mandal, Annasaheb Dange College of Engineering and Technology, India
Ruggero Lanotte, University of Insubria, Italy
Ryspek Usubamatov, Kyrgyz State Technical University, Kyrgyzstan
Selçuk MISTIKOĞLU, Iskenderun Technical University, Turkey
Smain Femmam, UHA University, France
Sudan Jha, Kathmandu University, Nepal
Sudeep Tanwar, Nirma University, India
Sunan Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ting Zou, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Wei Xu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Wenlong Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Publication Chair
Babak Safaei, Nanotechnology and Multifunctional Structures Research Center (NMSRC), Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
Sponsor
Wuhan Institute of Technology
Nanotechnology and Multifunctional Structures Research Center (NMSRC)
University of Haute-Alsace – France
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
