Prof. Xiaobo Qu

Tsinghua University, China

IET Fellow

Biography:

Xiaobo Qu is a Changjiang Chair Professor with the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University since Dec 2021. His research is focused on intelligent transportation systems, ground-air cooperation and vertical transportation systems, and emerging transport mode informed mobility services. He has authored or co-authored over 180 journal articles published at top tier journals, including 14 ESI highly cited papers. To date, Prof Qu has secured research funding well above 30 million Euros from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology China,  Australian Research Council, Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, STINT, and European Union, Ministry of Education China, including one NSFC key project (3 million CNY), one MoST thematic project (120 million CNY = 40 million public funding + 80 million matchup, as the PI), Australian Research Council Discovery Project, four major grants from Swedish Innovation Agency, two projects from EU, and a number of projects from research foundations. He has been invited to serve as a panel/assessor for prestigious funding scheme such as the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (35 million AUD each), Future Fellowship (career grant, 1 million AUD each), Netherlands NWO VICI (career grant, 2.5 million Euros each), Hong Kong Research Council theme based scheme (30 million HKD each), Singapore Ministry of Education Thematic Research Program (5 million SD each), European Research Council, NSFC, Ministry of Education China etc. He is an elected Member of Academia Europaea–the Academy of Europe since Aug 2020, and an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences since Jan 2020.  He was a faculty member at two Australian Universities from 2012-2017, joined Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as a Professor in Feb 2018, promoted to Chair Professor rank in Feb 2020. From Dec 2021, Xiaobo is teaching at the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, China, at full time capacity, and will accept PhD students and postdocs from both China and overseas.

Prof. Xiaorui Zhang

Nanjing Tech University, China

Biography:

Xiaorui Zhang, female, Ph.D., professor, and master’s supervisor, holds a doctoral degree from Southeast University and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is an accreditation expert for engineering education and an undergraduate teaching evaluation expert for the Ministry of Education, as well as a reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is a member of ACM and IEEE. Xiaorui Zhang has served as the program committee chair for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS) in 2021 and 2022, the organizing committee chair for ICAIS 2020, and the publication chair for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR 2022). She holds editorial roles including editor-in-chief, associate editor, editorial board member, and guest editor for several domestic and international journals. Her current research focuses on image processing, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, digital forensics, and artificial intelligence. She has participated in subprojects of the National 973 Program and the National 863 High-Tech Program, and has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, three projects funded by the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, as well as multiple industry-sponsored projects. She has published over 50 high-quality SCI papers in major academic journals and international conferences, holds more than 60 authorized invention patents, with over 20 patents successfully commercialized, and has guided students to win over 80 awards in national and provincial-level academic competitions.

Assoc. Prof. Lin Li, Nanjing Tech University, China
Assoc. Prof. Nan Kang, Nanjing Tech University, China
Assoc. Prof. Yingshuai Li, Nanjing Tech University, China
Assoc. Prof. Jiang Bian, Nanjing Tech University, China
Assoc. Prof. Yu Sun, Nanjing Tech University, China

Lect. Yan Zhong, Nanjing Tech University, China
Lect. Min Zhang, Nanjing Tech University, China