Lei Guo

Lei Guo was born in Qufu, China, in 1966. He received the B.S. degree in fundamental mathematics and the M.S. degree in operational research and cybernetics from Qufu Normal University, Qufu, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1997. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Lecturer with Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Southeast University. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Research Fellow with IRCCyN, Nantes, Frances. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Fellow with the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK; and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK. In 2004, he joined the Institute of Automation, Southeast University, as a Professor. In 2006, he became a Professor with the School of Instrumentation and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, where he is currently with the School of Automation Science and Electronic Engineering. He is currently an Academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, an Awardee of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, and a Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education of China. He has authored or coauthored more than 420 articles. He has granted more than 120 invention patents and published six academic books. His research interests include anti-disturbance control theory and applications. Dr. Guo was a recipient of the National Natural Science Awards, the National Technology Invention Awards, the National Pioneer Innovation Award, and more than five provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards. He served as an editor for five journals.

Yongduan Song

Yongduan Song is a Fellow of IEEE, AAIA, CAA. He held a tenured full professor position with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA, from 1996 to 2008, and a Langley Distinguished Professor position with the National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, USA, from 2005 to 2008. He was one of the six Langley Distinguished Professors with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), and the Founding Director of the Center for Cooperative Systems with NIA. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. Dr. Song is a leading researcher in neural networks (NN) based adaptive control, significantly contributing to both NN theory methods and engineering applications. He is very active as associate editors for top IEEE journals, including IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Trans. on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. As a scientific leader in the field of systems and control, he has been serving on various national and international technical committees. Dr. Song has made original contributions in neural network adaptive control of nonlinear systems with real world applications, which can be assessed by his publications (over 300 papers) in prestigious international journals, including IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-FS, IEEE T-SMC, IEEE T-Cybernetics, IEEE T-AC, IEEE T-IE and Automatica. He authored/co-authored 11 books in the field of control and artificial intelligence. He also held over 80 patents, and has given numerous keynote speeches and invited talks, chaired several conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

Jin Xu

Jin Xu is a Professor at Peking University, holding dual doctoral degrees in both science and engineering. His research encompasses neural networks, bioinformatics, computer theory, and algorithms. With over 400 papers published, he has also authored five monographs and translated one. He has been recognized as the primary investigator, earning one second prize from the National Natural Science Award, two first prizes from the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, and one first prize from the Hubei Province Natural Science Award. Jin Xu has led numerous projects, including Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, major international cooperation projects, and national key research and development plans. He has chaired the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics and served as editor-in-chief of one journal, along with deputy editor-in-chief roles in two others. Currently, he holds positions as Deputy Director of the Circuits and Systems Society at the China Institute of Electronics and Vice Chair of the Cloud Computing and Big Data Applications Technical Committee at the China Institute of Communications. Invited as a keynote speaker at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Information Division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jin Xu has also contributed as a field expert in the Science and Technology Commission and held leadership roles in various professional societies, including President of the Operations Research Society of Hubei Province and Vice President of the Operations Research Society of Beijing. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Network Space Security Education for the Ministry of Education.

Zhang Yi

Zhang Yi received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics, The Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 1994. Currently, he is a Professor with the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He is the co-author of three books: Convergence Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks (Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004), Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Springer, 2007), and Subspace Learning of Neural Networks (CRC Press, 2010). He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is the Chair of IEEE Chengdu Section (2015 ~). He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2009 ~ 2012), and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2014 ~). He is also a Fellow of CAAI. His current research interests include Neural Networks and Big Data. He is the founding director of Machine Intelligence Laboratory. He is also the founder of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chengdu Chapter.