Zhongsheng Hou

IEEE Fellow

Qingdao University, China

Biography: 

Zhongsheng Hou (IEEE Fellow, 2020) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Jilin University of Technology, Jilin, China, in 1983 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar with Yale University, CT, USA. From 1997 to 2018, he was with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, where he was a Distinguished Professor and the Founding Director of the Advanced Control Systems Laboratory, and the Head of the Department of Automatic Control. He is currently a Chair Professor and head of the Academy of Sciences Science and Control, Qingdao University, China.

Jinde Cao

IEEE Fellow

Southeast University, China

Biography: 

Jinde Cao is an Endowed Chair Professor, the Dean of Science Department at Southeast University (SEU). He is also the Director of National Center for Applied Mathematics at SEU-Jiangsu of China and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China. He is also Honorable Professor of Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling, Almaty, Kazakhstan.He was a recipient of the National Innovation Award of China, Jiangsu Province May 1 Labor Medal, IETI Annual Scientific Award, Obada Prize and the Highly Cited Researcher Award in Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics by Clarivate Analytics. He is elected as a fellow of IEEE, a member of Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academia Europaea, a member of Russian Academy of Engineering, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, a fellow of African Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

Pavel Loskot

IEEE Senior Member

Zhejiang University, China

Biography: 

Dr. Pavel Loskot joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute in January 2021 as the Associate Professor after being nearly 14 years with Swansea University in the UK as the Senior Lecturer in Engineering. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. He is the Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the Signal Processing and Life Sciences Societies, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, and the Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education. He received 3 Best Paper awards from international conferences, and delivered tutorials and keynotes in over 40 international conferences. He was a member of Organizing Committees and the Chair or Co-Chair in nearly 20 international conferences, and Technical Program Committee member in over 120 engineering and scientific conferences.

In the past 25 years, he participated in and led numerous industrial and academic collaborative projects with large and small institutions in the Czech Republic, Finland, Canada, the UK and China, and worked as a paid technology consultant for several SMEs and larger companies. In academic year 2014/2015, he was a visiting researcher in Computational Science Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing, China. In 2010-2012, he was the Digital Economy Adviser for the Welsh Government, and the Swansea University representative in Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile Communications in the UK. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Research Scientist in the Centre for Wireless Communications in Oulu, Finland where he received the Nokia Research Award for his innovative work on adaptive transmission systems. He was involved in design, implementation and standardization efforts of the 2G, 3G and 4G mobile cellular networks and the early versions of WiFi and Bluetooth systems. In the past 8 years, he diversified his research interests and got directly involved in projects concerning computational molecular biology, air transport management, and renewable energy systems. This experience allowed him to truly understand the underlying principles of interdisciplinary working, and crossing the disciplines boundaries. His current research focuses on the problems involving statistical signal processing and importing methods from Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Science to other disciplines in order to improve the efficiency and the information power of system modeling and analysis. Elected IARIA Fellow in December 2025.

Ata Jahangir Moshayedi

IEEE Senior Member

Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: 

Dr. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, an Associate Professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology in China, holds a PhD in Electronic Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University in India. He is a distinguished member of IEEE(Senior Member) and ACM, as well as a Life Member of the Instrument Society of India and a Lifetime Member of the Speed Society of India. Additionally, he contributes to the academic community as a valued member of various editorial teams for international conferences and journals.

Dr. Moshayedi's academic achievements are, marked by a portfolio of over 90 papers published,2 patent and 12 copyright , across esteemed national and international journals and conferences along with 3 books on robotics (VR and mobile olfaction) and embedded systems.

In addition to his scholarly publications, he has authored three books and is credited with two patents and nine copyrights, emblematic of his pioneering contributions to the field. His research interest includes Robotics and Automation/ Sensor modeling/Bio-inspired robot, Mobile Robot Olfaction/Plume Tracking, Embedded Systems / Machine vision-based Systems/Virtual reality, and Machine vision/Artificial Intelligence. Currently, Dr. Moshayedi is actively engaged in pioneering work at Jiangxi University, where he is developing a model for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and advancing the realm of Food Delivery Service Robots.