Prof. Ruxandra Mihaela Botez,
ÉTS - Quebec Universitys, Canada

Dr Ruxandra Botez is Full Professor at ÉTS - Quebec University in Canada since 1998. She has obtained her Master in Engineering from the Faculty of Aircraft Design in Bucharest, Romania, Master in Applied Science from Ecole Polytechnique and PhD from McGill universities in Montreal, Canada. Ruxandra was also Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University in the USA and she has a 5 years industrial experience obtained from the Factory of Helicopters in Brasov, Romania and Bombardier in Dorval, Canada. Ruxandra is the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011, and she is the Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE since 2003. Ruxandra is Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute (CASI) and Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), Honorary Foreign Member of the Romanian Academy and many other organizations. Ruxandra is member of two technical committees of AIAA: Adaptive Structures and Modeling and Simulation technical committees and she is also the Technical Chair of the AIAA SciTech 2024 Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. Ruxandra is Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin and Associate Editor of different other journals including the Aeronautical Journal. Ruxandra graduated more than 400 students in her academic career, who worked on her research projects: 30 PhD students, 140 master’s students (projects and theses) and 300 Internship students. Ruxandra published more than 200 archival original journal articles, 340 conference papers and 7 invited book chapters. Ruxandra and her team have obtained more than 70 awards; she also gave more than 50 invited speaker presentations. Ruxandra’s projects were and are realized in collaboration with various universities, aerospace companies and research institutes in Canada, such as Bombardier Aerospace, CAE, CMC Electronics, Bell Helicopter Textron, Thales Aerospace, GlobVision, FLIR Systems and IAR-NRC, in the USA with Presagis and NASA, in Italy with Alenia and CIRA, in Mexico with Hydra Technologies, in Germany with DLR, in Romania with the National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”.

Assoc. Prof. Shaoke Wan
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Shaoke Wan, associate professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University in December 2019 with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. From September 2018 to September 2019, he underwent joint doctoral training at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada. In March 2020, he was selected into Xi'an Jiaotong University's inaugural "Young Excellent Talent Program". His primary research interests include high-speed milling chatter monitoring and active suppression, intelligent machine tool spindle technology, and robotic intelligent navigation. He has led over 10 national key research and development projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China general/youth projects, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects. He has published over 40 academic papers in major domestic and international academic journals and international conferences. He has obtained 24 patent grants, 4 software copyrights, and won a special award for outstanding achievements in scientific and technological research in higher education institutions in Shaanxi Province (ranked first) and a first prize in the China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award (ranked fourth).

Assoc. Prof. Tao Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Dr. Wang Tao is currently an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Intelligent Engineering, and Deputy Director of the Project Management Department of the Advanced Technology Research Institute, Sun Yat-Sen University. He is responsible for the Multi Domain Unmanned System Collaborative Cognitive Control Technology Laboratory, Sun Yat-Sen University's Hundred Talents Plan to introduce talents, the first batch of B class talents in the Shenzhen Peacock Special Recruitment Post, and also serves as a part-time unmanned equipment innovation team in the Guangdong Southern Ocean Science and Engineering Laboratory. I obtained Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beihang University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004, 2007, and 2011, respectively. He has served for a long time at the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and have won the Long March Contribution Award twice and multiple Technology Improvement Awards. He has been engaged in research on key technologies for navigation guidance and control, and cognitive intelligence in multiple unmanned systems for a long time. In the past three years, He has led more than 20 scientific research projects, including key funding projects, innovation special zone projects, and major special engineering projects in the field. His related scientific research achievements have been widely applied in 9 important equipment or projects, and He has been granted 14 national invention patents. He has published more than 30 academic journals and conference papers both domestically and internationally, with the highest citation count of a single article exceeding 160 times. He has served as a director of "Unmanned System Technology", a young editorial board member of "Biometric Intelligence and Robotics", a member of the Mixed Intelligence and System Simulation Committees of the Automation Society, a member of the Cluster Intelligence and Collaborative Control Committee of the Accusation Society, a member of the Intelligent Game and Wargame Simulation Committee, and a member of the Big Model and Decision Intelligence Committee.

Assoc. Prof. Junxing Zhang
Guizhou University, China

Junxing Zhang is currently a master supervisor at the Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology of the Ministry of Education, Guizhou University. He is a member of the CAA, a lifelong member of the Intelligent Manufacturing Professional Committee of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, and a peer review expert of international top journals such as IEEE TNNLSs, ISA Transactions, Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Journal of Vibration and Control.
His research interests include the application of industrial big data and computational intelligence in adaptive control of electromechanical systems, advanced control (adaptive control, optimal control, and active fault-tolerant control) and learning optimization of complex industrial intelligent manufacturing systems, and the development of intelligent complex equipment. In recent years, He has undertaken research on over 10 research projects supported by the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (key, general, and regional projects), the National Intelligent Manufacturing New Model Application Project, and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Guizhou University ESI Potential Discipline Enhancement Program key projects. He has published more than 10 papers in authoritative academic journals and authored more than 30 patents (including Chinese invention patents, USA invention patents).