Keynote Speaker
Ian R. Petersen, Professor
Fellow of IFAC, IEEE, Asian Control Association, Australian Academy of Science
The Australian National University, Australia
Biography: Ian R. Petersen was born in Victoria, Australia. He received a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Rochester. From 1983 to 1985 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. From 2017 he has been a Professor at the Australian National University in the School of Engineering. He was the Interim Director of the School of Engineering at the Australian National University from 2018-2019. From 1985 until 2016 he was with UNSW Canberra where he was a Scientia Professor and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. He has previously been ARC Executive Director for Mathematics Information and Communications, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research for UNSW and an Australian Federation Fellow. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He also served as an Editor for Automatica. He is a fellow of IFAC, the Asian Control Association, the IEEE and the Australian Academy of Science. His main research interests are in robust control theory, quantum control theory and stochastic control theory.g.
Qing-Long Han, Professor
FIEEE, FIFAC, FIEAust, FCAA
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality)
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Biography: Professor Han is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia.
Professor Han was awarded The 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in systems science and engineering, and cybernetics), The 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia), The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2022, 2020, and 2019, respectively, The IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2021, and The IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of The International Federation of Automatic Control (FIFAC), a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and a Fellow of The Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate Analytics). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee, and Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Zuqing Zhu, Professor
IEEE Fellow
Director of INFINITE LAB
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Biography: Zuqing Zhu is a Full Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Since Jan. 2011, he has been leading the Intelligent Networking system & Future InterNet InfrasTructurE (INFINITE) Lab in USTC. Dr. Zhu is currently the Chair of the Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He has been the Lead Series Editor of the Optical Communications and Networks Series in IEEE Communications Magazine, and is currently on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), etc. Dr. Zhu is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and has been a Member-at-Large of the GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2018-2021). He has published more than 360 papers in referred journals and conferences of IEEE and Optica. His h-index is 58 (from Google Scholar, 06/2024), his Google Scholar Profile is here, and his ResearchGate Profile can be found here. He has received the 2023 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee (CSR-TC) of ComSoc, and the 2023 Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award from the Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) of ComSoc. Dr. Zhu is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a Senior Member of Optica (formerly OSA).