 | Prof.Graziano ChesiUniversity of Hong Kong, China Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" (Springer 2009), "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming" (Springer 2011), and "LMI-Based Robustness Analysis In Uncertain Systems" (Now Publishers 2024). He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for contributions to control of nonlinear and multi-dimensional systems. |
 | Prof. Youfu LiCity University of Hong Kong, China Professor Youfu Li is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong and an IEEE Fellow, internationally recognized as an expert in robotics vision and sensing. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1986, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, UK, in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth), before joining City University of Hong Kong in 1995. His research focuses primarily on robot vision, 3D vision, visual tracking, robotic sensing, and sensor-based control. He has published over 400 academic papers, including more than 180 in SCI-indexed journals, and has been repeatedly listed among the world’s top 2% most influential scientists by Stanford University's lifetime impact ranking. He has served as Associate Editor or Guest Editor for top-tier journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and has received numerous honors, including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Sensors Journal, the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award, and the First Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Award. |