Prof. Haoping Wang

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Bio: Vice Dean of the School of Automation at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, PhD Advisor, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Lille in France. His current research focuses on hybrid systems theory and applications, data-driven model-free control, state observer design, networked visual servo control, optimal control of renewable energy systems, as well as the design and intelligent control of rehabilitation and power-assisted mechanical exoskeleton robots. He has led over 30 national and provincial-level projects, including key international scientific and technological innovation collaboration projects under the National Key R&D Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, and the Sino-French Government Cai Yuanpei Program. To date, he has published 277 papers in various international journals and conferences, including 147 high-quality SCI-indexed papers as first or corresponding author, authored two monographs, and filed 15 invention patents.

Prof. Mingbo Niu

Chang’an University, China

Bio: Mingbo Niu, Professor and PhD advisor, is the Director of the Shaanxi International Innovation Research Centre for Transportation-Energy-Information Fusion and Sustainability, and Heading the IVR Low Carbon Research Institute, Chang’an University, Shaanxi, China. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in British Columbia. He has coauthored more than 100 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Elsevier, and Optical Society of America (OSA) papers and supervised numerous projects. His research interests include the internet of vehicles (IoV), vehicle-to-road (V2R) infrastructure, cooperative microgrids, massive multiple input multiple outputs (M-MIMO), image signal processing, low-carbon smart cities, transportation-energy fusion, and renewable power theory. Dr. Niu is a specialized committee member of the Internet of Things (IoT) Committee at the China Institute of Communications (CIC). He contributes to the National Key R&D Projects on Renewable HWY Transportation Energy Systems. He served as the General Chair of the 3rd and 4th International Conference on Intelligent Traffic Systems and Smart City, and an Academic Editor for InTech Publishing, EU. He received numerous awards, including a Chinese Government Award (CGA), two University of British Columbia University Graduate Fellowships (UGFs), and a Huawei Tech Ltd., Special Fellowship. He has ever worked with the State Key Laboratory on Underwater Information and Signal Processing, China.

Title: Key coupling between transportation network and power grid - exploration and research on the feasibility of electric vehicle role transformation

Prof. Yang Sun

Hebei University of Engineering, China

Bio: Prof. Yang Sun,born in August 1979, doctor, professor, doctoral supervisor, vice president of the Science and Technology Research Institute of Hebei University of Engineering, director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vehicles in Handan City, member of CAA Parallel Intelligence Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, member of the National Teaching Guidance Committee for Automotive Service Engineering, member of the Engineering drawing Society of Hebei Province, and member of the Artificial Intelligence and Big data Professional Teaching Committee of the China Machinery Industry Education Association, Member of the Mechanical Engineering Expert Committee of the VE, member of the Chinese Society of Automation, member of the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering, young academic backbone of Hebei University of Engineering, member of the Academic Committee of the College of Mechanical and Equipment Engineering, Expert reviewers for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics，World Journal of Engineering, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Applications, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Zhejiang University, the Journal of Weapon Equipment Engineering. In June 2014, he received a doctor's degree in mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. In recent years, have led or participated in 4 national level scientific research projects and 12 provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects; Obtained 5 national patents; Published over 50 papers, including over 30 included in SCI and EI; Received 1 Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, and 2 Municipal Science and Technology Progress Awards.

Prof. Jialing Yao

Nanjing Forestry University, China

Bio: Professor, Ph.D., Doctoral/Master's Supervisor. Member of the Vehicle Dynamics Branch and Suspension Branch of the China Society of Automotive Engineers. Selected for Jiangsu Provincial Talent Program. Review Expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Postdoctoral Fellow at Jilin University School of Automotive Engineering. Visiting Scholar at Virginia Tech and Clemson University. He has led one National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program project and one Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation General Program project. He has led or participated in over 30 vertical and horizontal research projects and more than 10 educational reform projects. He received one Third Prize in Military Scientific and Technological Progress Award, holds over 20 authorized invention patents, and authored over 50 academic papers as first author, with more than 20 papers indexed by SCI and EI. He was invited by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group) to write a monograph and has edited one undergraduate textbook. Primary research areas: Vehicle system dynamics and control; Intelligent unmanned vehicles; Motor-based active suspension technology; Vehicle and component design and optimization.