Keynote Speakers
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture; Chief Expert of the National Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Intelligent Equipment; Director of the National Engineering Center for Traceability Technology and Application of Agricultural Product Quality and Safety; Chairman of the Expert Advisory Committee for Agricultural and Rural Informatization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Member of the Science and Technology Innovation Strategy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence; Vice President of the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies; Honorary President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering; Honorary President of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery; Executive Director of the Asian Conference on Precision Agriculture (ACPA), Japan; Chief Representative of China for the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), USA; Member of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Strategy Advisory Committee.
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He is primarily engaged in research on agricultural intelligent systems technology and equipment. He has served as a theme expert in digital agriculture and equipment technology under the National 863 Program in the field of modern agriculture, and as the head of the technical expert group for the major project "Intelligent Agricultural Information Technology Application Demonstration Project" in the information technology domain of the National 863 Program. He led the implementation of specialized research projects such as "Computer Agriculture," "Digital Agriculture," and "Precision Agriculture" under China's National 863 Program.
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He has been awarded five National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Class), the National 863 Program Outstanding Contribution Award, the National 973 Program Advanced Individual Award, the National May 1st Labor Medal, the National Advanced Worker Award, the National Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology Worker Award, the National Outstanding Professional Talent Award, the National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker Award, the China Agricultural Talent Award, the Outstanding Agricultural Research Talent Award, the Capital Hundred Leading Talents Award, and the Beijing Scholar Award, among others. He has also received the World Summit Award on the Information Society (WSA e-Science) and the Agricultural Science Award from the American Society of Agronomy (ASA).
Chengjiang Zhao
IEEE Life Fellow
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Seiichiro Katsura
IEEE Senior Member
Keio University, Japan
Seiichiro Katsura received his B.E. degree in system design engineering and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2001, 2002 and 2004, respectively.
From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2005 to 2008, he worked at Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Since 2008, he has been at Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. Currently, he is working as a Professor. In 2017, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. His research interests include applied abstraction, human support, data robotics, wave system, systems energy conversion, and electromechanical integration systems.
He has been active in the IEEE IES. He serves as Senior Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, and served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is a Chair of Technical Committees on Sensors and Actuators. He is an author or a co-author of more than 200 journal papers, 550 international conference papers with review and 35 patents.
He was the recipient of The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Distinguished Paper Awards in 2003 and 2017, The European Power Electronics and Drives-Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, (EPE-PEMC’08), Best Paper Award in 2008, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Best Conference Paper Award in 2012, JSPS Prize in 2016, and Istvan Nagy Award in 2024.
Prof. Zhongchang Wang
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Dean of the School of Materials and Energy
Southwest University, China
Zhongchang Wang is the Dean of the School of Materials and Energy at Southwest University; National Leading Talent; Member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea); Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Top Talent of Chongqing's "YY Action Plan"; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC); Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM); Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM).
He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Chongqing Materials Society and Council Member of the Micro-Nano Technology Branch of the Chinese Ceramic Society. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. He has held positions as Assistant, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor at Tohoku University, Japan (during which he was a Visiting Professor at University College London from 2016 to 2017), Lifetime Professor at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Europe, and Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Beihang University. He also formerly served as Director of the INL (Suzhou) European Open Innovation Center.
His research focuses on the atomic-scale design and performance control of key chip materials, low-dimensional materials, and energy materials. He conducts in-depth studies in strategic semiconductors, information storage, precision sensing, and integrated sensing-storage-computing, designing and developing atomic-scale semiconductor manufacturing and integrated devices. He has led more than 20 national and enterprise projects.
He has published over 300 SCI-indexed papers in internationally renowned journals, including Nature and its sister journals (over 10 papers in Nature and Nature sub-journals). He has contributed to two English monographs and delivered over 100 invited or keynote presentations at conferences and academic institutions worldwide.
His awards include the NEC Grand Award for Advanced Technology, the IAAM Scientist Medal, the European Advanced Materials Award, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize. He has been consistently listed in the global top 2% of most-cited scientists.
Prof. Huayan Pu
Director of the Robotics Research Institute
Chongqing University, China
Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; Rank-2 Professor at Chongqing University; Director of the Robotics Research Institute of Chongqing University; Chief Scientist of the National Major Science and Technology Program on Intelligent Systems; and Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China.
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Her research primarily focuses on transmission system dynamics, vibration and noise reduction, and intelligent unmanned systems—both individual and swarm intelligence. He/she originated the concept of electromagnetic negative stiffness, which has been successfully applied in major equipment for aerospace, terrestrial, and maritime applications.
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She led the development of the "Jinghai" unmanned surface vehicle, China’s first robotic detection system for polar scientific expeditions, which achieved high-precision detection in the marginal ice zone of Antarctica. This achievement was awarded the Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award.
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In the field of mobile robotics, he/she has participated in multiple national-level research projects. Three generations of multi-legged walking robot prototypes developed under his/her leadership have made breakthroughs in dynamic control technology for complex terrains. Related patents have been applied in industrial inspection robots.
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She has received numerous honors, including the National Youth Post Expert Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Youth Scientist Award of the Chinese Association of Automation, Outstanding Youth Science and Technology Contribution Award of Shanghai, and Shanghai Model Worker of March 8th Red Banner Holder.
Guangqiao Cao
Deputy Director of the Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China
Cao Guangqiao, Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, serves as the Deputy Director of the Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. He is primarily engaged in agricultural mechanization engineering and strategic studies. He has led over 40 research projects, including those under the National Key R&D Program, the National Public Welfare (Agricultural) Industry Research Special Project, and the Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Independent Innovation Fund. With more than 60 published papers and three academic monographs to his name, he has also presided over the formulation of two industry standards. Additionally, he contributed to the development of the national agricultural science and technology as well as agricultural mechanization development plans for the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plan periods.