Technical Symposia 9

Intelligence of System Communication, Control and Reliability


1. Symposium Chairs:
Prof. Jun Liu, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Xi Chen, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Jingwen Yi, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Asst. Prof. Ran Duan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China


2. Topics:
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ Intelligent Robot
▪ Intelligent Control
▪ Embedded Vision
▪ Intelligent Electromechanical System
▪ Wireless Communications and Signal Processing
▪ Massive MIMO
▪ mmWave Communications
▪ OFDM/OFDMA
▪ Heterogeneous Network
▪ D2D Communications
▪ 5G Communications
▪ UAV Network
▪ Internet of Things
▪ Communications of Intelligent UAV Network
▪ Modeling of Intelligent UAV Network with Situation
▪ Interference and Confrontation of UAV Network
▪ System Performance of UAV Network Under Interference and Confrontation
▪ Reliability and Performance of Intelligent UAV Network
▪ Testing of Intelligent UAV Network
▪ Intelligent Analysis of System Reliability
▪ Intelligent Analysis of Software Reliability
▪ Software Testing and Reliability
▪ Intelligence Application in System and Software Reliability
▪ Control Theory and Application
▪ Reliability and Systems Engineering
▪ Signal and Information Processing
▪ Multi-agent systems and distributed control


3. Introduction of Symposium Chairs

Prof. Jun Liu, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Jun Liu received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2018. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation, Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT), Chengdu, China. In 2014, he worked with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA, USA, as a Visiting Scholar. From 2020 to 2021, he worked with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong SAR, China, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 articles in various journals and conference proceedings, and has won several provincial and ministerial awards. He has served as the Sichuan chairman in China of the 5th, 6th and 7th Asian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology (2021-2023ACAIT), member of the academic committee of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (IEEE DSS-2021), member of the technical procedure committee and co-chairman of the organization committee of the 14th, 15th and 16th International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (2022-2025ICSPS), member of the organization committee of the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Control (2023RAIIC), member of the procedure committee of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2023), etc. He has served as served as a special reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Information, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, ISA Transactions, Neurocomputing, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Journal of Engineering Science (CJE), Journal of Intelligent Systems and other journals, as well as editorial board members of some journals. He has served as a commentator of Mathematic Reviews in the United States. His research interests include coordinated control of multi-agent systems, machine learning, new computing and its applications, artificial intelligence and robots.



Assoc. Prof. Xi Chen, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Xi Chen received the B.S. degree in automation from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009 and the M.S. degree in information science and technology from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, in 2015. In 2015, he joined the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include coverage of sensor network, multiagent systems, and nonlinear system control. He has published more than 30 papers on IEEE TAC/TCYB/TMECH/TII/TIE/TIM/RAL and so on.



Assoc. Prof. Jingwen Yi, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Jing-Wen Yi received the B.E. degree in Automation from Yantai University, Yantai, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2016. She was a Visiting Student with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from September 2014 to May 2015. In April 2016, she joined the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, where she is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering. Her research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, distributed optimization, and graph signal processing. She has published more than 40 papers in international journals and conferences such as IEEE TAC, Automatica, IEEE TCYB, INS, etc. Dr Yi is a Member of IEEE, a Member of Youth Work Committee of Chinese Institute of Command and Control, a Member of Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control Committee of Chinese Institute of Command and Control. She was awarded "Chutian Young Scholar" in Hubei Province, and received the "Poster Award" from the 30th China Control Conference.



Asst. Prof. Ran Duan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Ran Duan received a B.S. degree in Communication Engineering from the School of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology in 2013 and a Master's degree in Computer Vision and Robotics from the University of Burgundy, France (European VIBOT program) in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a research associate at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In 2022, he earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His recent research interests mainly include visual positioning and navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), visual odometry, VSLAM, target Technical Symposiaing, etc. He has authored several top conference and journal papers in the field of intelligent robots and smart vision, including IROS, ICRA, EAAI, IEEE TMECH, IEEE TIM, IEEE JSTARS etc. He has supported or participated in a number of scientific research projects funded by the Dijon Agricultural Sciences Institute in France, Strasbourg University Hospital in France, Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited, and other institutions. Dr. Duan has long served as a reviewer for the conferences IROS and ICRA in the field of intelligent robots. He won the third place in the autonomous drone racing competition at the 2019 IROS conference and became one of the committee members of the Remote Sensing Surveying and Mapping for Deep Space Exploration, Chinese Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography in 2022.