Prof. Graziano Chesi
The University of Hong Kong
BIO: Graziano Chesi is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. He received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna. He served as associate editor for various journals, including Automatica, the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Systems and Control Letters. He founded the Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He also served as chair of the Best Student Paper Award Committees of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He authored the books "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" and "Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming". He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA and AIIA.
Prof. Guoqiang Hu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
BIO: Dr. Guoqiang Hu is currently a Professor of Intelligent Systems and Robotics in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida. His research interests include optimization and control, game theory, and learning algorithms, with applications to robotics and smart city systems. He was a recipient of several awards, including the Best Paper in Automation Award in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, the Best Paper Award in the 36th Chinese Control Conference, and the Best Paper Award in the 4th Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.