Keynote Speaker

Professor Xinghuo Yu (FAA, HonFIEAust, FIEEE)

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Biography: Xinghuo Yu is an Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia. He served as the President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2018 and 2019. 
Professor Yu is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Fellow of the IEEE, Australian Computer Society and Australian Institute of Company Directors.
His research focuses on control systems engineering, intelligent and complex systems, and power and energy systems. He received numerous prestigious awards, including 2018 MA Sargent Medal from the Institution of Engineers Australia and 2013 Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award from IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Professor Yu’s work has garnered over 58,000 Google Scholar citations, with an H-index of 115. He has been recognized as a Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering for ten consecutive years from 2015 to 2024.

Professor Peng Shi (FIEEE, FIET, FIEAust)

The University of Adelaide, Australia

Biography: Peng Shi received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of South Australia. He was awarded the Doctor of Science degree from University of Glamorgan, Wales; and the Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is now a Distinguished Professor, Director of Laboratory of Advanced Unmanned Systems, and Laboratory of Cyber-Physical Human Systems at University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include systems and control theory and applications to autonomous and robotic systems, intelligence systems, and cyber-physical systems. He has published widely in those areas. He received many recognitions and awards, such as the IEEE Nobert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society in 2024, the Ramesh Agarwal Life-time Achievement Award from the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) in 2023, the Meritorious Service Award from IEEE SMC Society in 2023, the M. A. Sargent Medal Award from the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust) in 2022, the Highly-Cited Researcher from Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2014, and Field Leader from The Australian Research Review from 2019-2023, the Outstanding Research Achievement Award from University of Adelaide in 2020, the Chancellor’s Gold Medal Award for Outstanding Research Performance from Victoria University in 2018, the Runner-up of Scopus Researcher of the Year Award (Elsevier, 2017), and the Andrew Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE SMC Society in 2016. His professional service includes a member of Board of Governors, Vice President of IEEE SMC Society, the President of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Science (IASCYS), and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Romanian Scientists, and an Academician of IASCYS. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, IETI, IEAust, and CAA. He serves/served on the editorial board of journals such as Automatica, IEEE Transactions on (Automatic Control, Fuzzy Systems, Circuits and Systems, Artificial Intelligence). Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, a Senior Editor of IEEE Access, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.