Prof. Thippa Reddy Gadekallu

IEEE Senior member

Zhejiang A&F University, China

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Thippa Reddy Gadekallu is currenty working as a professor at The College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China, as well as Chief Engineer at Zhongda Group, Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, China, 314312. He has obtained his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Nagarjuna University, India, in the year 2003, Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in the year 2011 and his Ph.D in Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India in the year 2017. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching. He has more than 300 international/national publications in reputed journals and conferences. Currently, his areas of research include Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Deep Neural Networks, Blockchain, Computer Vision. He is an editor in several publishers like Springer, Hindawi, Plosone, Scientific Reports (Nature), Wiley. He also acted as a guest editor in several reputed publishers like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Hindawi, MDPI. He is recently recognized as one among the top 2% scientists in the world as per the survey conducted by Elsevier in the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. He is also recognized as a highly cited researcher, young scientist category, by Clarivate (web of Science) for the period 2017-2022 in the year 2023. Algorithms.

Prof. Ning Wang

IEEE Senior member, IET Fellow, IMarEST Fellow

Dalian Maritime University

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Wang Ning is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Dalian Maritime University.He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the IMarEST, the IET, the ISCM, and the IIAV. Professor Wang completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Marine Engineering at Dalian Maritime University from September 2000 to July 2004. He then pursued his Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering at the same university from September 2004 to December 2009. During his doctoral studies, he participated in a joint Ph.D. program at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from August 2008 to August 2009.Following his Ph.D., he served as a Lecturer and Master's Supervisor at Dalian Maritime University from December 2009 to June 2011. During this period, he was also a Visiting Scholar at the World Maritime University from April to June 2011. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in July 2011 and held this position until June 2016. From August 2014 to August 2015, he conducted research as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas, USA. In July 2016, he was appointed as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Dalian Maritime University. His research focuses on Intelligent Marine Robotics, Green and Intelligent Ships, and Marine Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Qvanbo Ge

Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China

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Qvanbo Ge, male, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, a Postdoctoral Fellow of Zhejiang University; he is also a Young and Middle-aged Academic Leader of the "Qinglan Project" in Jiangsu Provincial Universities, a recipient of the 4th Youth Science Award of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA. He has published and been accepted nearly 100 high-quality academic papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (IEEE TIE), IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), and Acta Automatica Sinica, and presided over more than 30 scientific research projects including General and Key Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and major national defense special projects. Meanwhile, he holds multiple academic positions: Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, Deputy Director of the Professional Committee on Autonomous Unmanned Systems of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Deputy Director of the Professional Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education of the Chinese Association of Automation, and Executive Deputy Director of the Professional Committee on Autonomous Unmanned Systems of the Jiangsu Association of Automation; he also serves as Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science and Editorial Board Member of journals such as Acta Automatica Sinica, Journal of Command and Control, and Control Engineering. His main research areas include autonomous intelligent unmanned systems, low-altitude intelligent transportation systems, intelligent perception and learning control, and intelligentization of dynamic systems.