Prof. Zhijun Fu

Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China

Henan Province Distinguished Professor, recipient of the Henan Provincial Outstanding Young Scholars Fund, and academic and technical leader recognized by the Henan Provincial Department of Education. He/she earned a Ph.D. through a joint training program between Concordia University in Canada and Beijing University of Science and Technology. His/her main research focuses on the interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence and intelligent driving, particularly intelligent decision-making and control for connected and autonomous vehicles. He/she has led three National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, three provincial science and technology research projects, and one industry-university cooperative education project funded by the Ministry of Education. As the principal organizer, he/she has received one Grand Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China General Chamber of Commerce, one First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, and several other provincial and ministerial-level awards. He/she serves as a member of the Vehicle Control and Intelligence Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, a member of the Automotive Electronics Industry Professional Committee of the China Computer Industry Association, a member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a senior member of the China Society of Automotive Engineers (CSAE), a member of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and a member of the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering (CSVE).

Prof. Xiuqing Hao

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Hao Xiuqing, female, Ph.D., is a professor and master’s supervisor at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the director of Tsinghua x-lab. Her research interests include surface texturing and tribology, advanced manufacturing technologies, superhydrophobic surface design and fabrication, and applications of functional microstructured surfaces.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Chongqing University in 2007 and her Ph.D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014, where she studied under Academician Lu Bingheng. During her doctoral studies, she participated in a jointly supervised program at Northwestern University in the United States. Since 2015, she has served as a lecturer at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was promoted to associate professor in 2016. She has led more than 10 research projects, including General and Young Scientist projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a national defense basic research program project, and the Jiangsu Outstanding Young Scholar Fund. She has published more than 90 papers in journals such as Small and JMCA (including five papers with an impact factor above 10), and has been granted more than 20 invention patents.

In 2017, she was awarded the title of Changkong Scholar at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and in 2018 she was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial “Six Talent Peaks” high-level talent program. She has supervised student teams that won the 2022 Provincial Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Design) Team Award. She has also delivered invited talks at international academic conferences on multiple occasions, such as the 39th International Micro/Nano Engineering Conference, and has participated in the review of National Natural Science Foundation of China projects.