Han YUAN, Professor
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Biography: Dr. Han YUAN, professor and PhD Supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong "Pearl River Scholar". He was a visiting scholar at the Soft Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK. His research focuses on cable-driven flexible robotics. He has led 7 national-level research projects, published over 70 academic papers, and been granted more than 40 national invention patents.
Yukang Cui, Associate Professor
Shenzhen University, China
Biography: Yukang Cui is an Associate Professor at the College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of the Shenzhen University Liyuan Excellent Young Scholar Program. He received his B.Eng. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong. He serves as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches MECH3418. His research interests include multi-source fusion perception and 3D Gaussian splatting, multi-UAV collaboration and VLA-based navigation, embodied intelligence and aerial manipulators, and planning and control of high-dynamic unmanned systems. He has led multiple research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China General and Young Scientists projects, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Young Scholar Enhancement and General projects, Guangdong Department of Education Key and Featured Innovation projects, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Program Category C, and strategic research projects of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. He has published more than 40 papers in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Journal of The Franklin Institute, and Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, and has served as Track Chair or Session Chair for international conferences including IEEE IECON and ICCA.
Peng Chen, Associate Professor
Shantou University, China
Biography: Dr. Peng Chen is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at Shantou University, recognized as a Shantou High-Level Talent and selected for the university’s “Outstanding Talents Program.” He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Ming J. Zuo — IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering — with joint doctoral training at KU Leuven (Belgium) and a visiting research appointment at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is an IEEE member, an external peer reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and serves on multiple technical committees of the Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering, including the Signal Processing Branch, Dynamic Testing Professional Committee, and Rotor Dynamics Branch. As a principal investigator, he has led over 10 research projects — including an NSFC Young Scientists Fund project rated “Excellent” upon completion and an AVIC Key R&D sub-project — while also contributing to six major national-level initiatives. He has published over 50 SCI-indexed journal articles as first or corresponding author in premier venues such as MECH SYST SIGNAL PR、 EXPERT SYST APPL 、KNOWL BASED SYST、 ENG APPL ARTIF INTELL 、IEEE INTERNET THINGS J、 IEEE T INSTRUM MEAS、 IEEE T RELIAB, among others (featuring two Highly Cited/Hot Papers), and holds six granted invention patents. He has served as session chair and delivered invited talks at international conferences including UNIfied-2026-SMMI, IMCC 2025, and TEPEN2024-IWFDP, and actively contributes to the academic community as a reviewer and guest editor for multiple prestigious international journals.