Biography: Professor Shugong Xu （徐树公）is the Associate Vice President for Research and Impact at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and a full professor in the Department of Intelligent Science at XJTLU’s School of Advanced Technology. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and wireless communication systems.
Professor Xu pursued his undergraduate studies at Wuhan University from 1986 to 1990. He then obtained his master’s degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control and his PhD in Communication and Information Systems at Huazhong University of Science and Technology between 1990 and 1996.
Professor Xu has a distinguished R&D and academic career of more than 30 years. Half of his career time spans in top industrial research labs, including Sharp Labs of America, Huawei 2012 Labs and Intel Labs. Prof. Xu has led many national and international projects and is a recipient of numerous honours, including the National Innovation Leadership Talent Award (2013) and the First Prize in Shanghai’s Natural Science Award (2023). He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2016 and won the Award for Advances in Communication from the IEEE Communication Society in 2017. Before joining XJTLU, Prof. Xu was a full professor at Shanghai University since 2016. His research output includes over 80 patents issued in US/WO/CN, and more than 180 peer-reviewed research papers.
Biography: MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in intelligent robotics and automation, Petri nets, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent optimization. He has over 900 publications including 12 books, 600+ journal papers (500+ in IEEE transactions), 29 patents and 29 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He is a recipient of Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and Excellence in Research Prize and Medal from NJIT. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is a Fellow of IEEE, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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