Prof. Chao Deng

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Biography:  Chao Deng was born in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Northeastern University in 2018. From 2018 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Advanced Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has been selected for a national-level young talent program and is recognized as a high-level talent at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His main research interests include cooperative safety control of cyber-physical systems, reliable and secure control of smart grids, target detection and formation control of autonomous unmanned vehicles, cooperative formation control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms in medical information systems.

Pro. Yan Liu

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Biography:  Yan Liu is a Longshan Scholar and Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. Her research focuses on distributed learning, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems, as well as distributed secure state estimation. She has authored over 40 peer-reviewed academic papers and holds more than 10 authorized invention patents, several of which have been successfully commercialized. She has led five national and provincial-level research projects and was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Young Science and Technology Talent Support Program. In recognition of her contributions, she received the Second Prize in Scientific and Technological Progress from the Jiangsu Digital Economy Society and the Third Prize in Scientific and Technological Achievements from the Jiangsu Automation Society.