Prof. Ning Wang

Dalian Maritime University, China

Ning Wang is a recipient of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program for Young Top-Notch Talents. He currently serves as a Leading Talent and Young Top-Notch Talent of Liaoning Province’s "Xingliao Talent Plan," and has been awarded the Dalian Distinguished Youth Science Fund. He is also recognized as a candidate at the hundred-tier level of Liaoning Province’s "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project." As a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher, Ning Wang enjoys a high reputation in the academic community. Additionally, he is a Fellow of three major international professional societies: IET, ISCM, and IIAV. His primary research areas include intelligent marine robotics (surface unmanned vessels, underwater robots, unmanned aerial vehicles), green intelligent ships (perception and decision-making, navigation control, marine machinery intelligence, new energy hybrid power control), and marine artificial intelligence (marine environmental perception, cross-domain marine swarms, complex ship systems), where he has established profound academic expertise and influence.

Prof. Weinan Gao

Northeastern University, China

Professor and doctoral supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation for Process Industry, Northeastern University; IEEE Senior Member; recipient of the National Youth Talent Program; high-level talent of Shenyang City; visiting professor at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory in Boston, USA. Previously served as Assistant Professor and doctoral supervisor at Florida Institute of Technology and as Assistant Professor at the University of South Georgia, USA. He has long been engaged in fundamental theoretical research in artificial intelligence, adaptive dynamic programming, optimal control, and output regulation, with applied research focusing on intelligent connected vehicles, autonomous driving, and power systems. He has published over 40 papers in international journals, including 3 ESI highly cited papers.

Prof. Simone Baldi

Southeast University, China

Professor Simone Baldi, PhD supervisor, has been selected for the National High-Level Young Talent Program and the Foreign Young Scholar Fund. His primary research interests include adaptive and learning systems and their applications in intelligent transportation, smart energy, smart grids, autonomous driving, UAV formations, and related areas. To date, he has published more than 200 papers, including over 140 SCI-indexed papers. Among them, he has published more than 100 long papers in top journals in automatic control, such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica, as well as in leading journals in transportation, smart energy, aerospace, and other application fields.

Prof. Suleman Mazhar

Harbin Engineering University, China

Title: Transfer Learning Based Adaptive End-to-End Underwater Acoustic OFDM Receiver

Professor Suleman Mazhar worked as a faculty member for about 10 years at GIK Institute and the University of Information Technology in Punjab, Pakistan, where he also served as Director of the Biologically Inspired Simulation and Modeling Lab (BiSMiL Lab). He is currently a professor at Harbin Engineering University, where he teaches courses related to deep/machine learning and signal processing. His research focuses on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for human development and environmental protection, and his laboratory projects are funded by China, Pakistan, and DAAD (Germany). His research expertise lies in machine learning and signal/image processing. He also advises research projects on monitoring aquatic pollution and the environment, as well as protecting marine mammals, using acoustic and image processing technologies.

Prof. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi

Dongguan University of Technology, China

Dr. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi is an Associate Professor at the DGUT-CNAM Institute, Dongguan University of Technology, China. He received his PhD in Electronic Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly the University of Pune), India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Professional Member of ACM, and a Life Member of the Indian Instrument Society. Dr. Moshayedi has published more than 100 research papers, independently authored four monographs, contributed to four book chapters, and holds three patents and 16 copyrights. He actively serves as a Technical Program Committee member and session chair for numerous international conferences. His current research focuses on robotics, particularly the development of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for applications in smart agriculture, food delivery, and elderly care.