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. Petros Ioannou

University of Southern California，USA

IEEE Fellow

Biography:

Petros A. Ioannou received his B.Sc. with First Class Honors from University College London in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1980 and 1982. He joined the University of Southern California (USC) in 1982, where he currently holds the A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Chair and directs the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies and the METRANS research program. He has held visiting positions at universities in Australia, Cyprus, and Greece. Dr. Ioannou is a leading researcher in robust adaptive control, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and vehicle dynamics. His accolades include the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Application and Research Awards, the IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award, the IET Heaviside Medal, and the 2022 induction to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has authored over 400 publications and nine books. Dr. Ioannou has held significant leadership roles, including Vice President for Membership of the IEEE ITS Society and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a co-founder of the Mediterranean Control Association and the METRANS University Transportation Center.

Prof. Zhiyuan Liu

Southeast University, China

Biography:

Dr. Zhiyuan (Terry) Liu is a Professor in the School of Transportation at Southeast University in Nanjing China. He attained his Ph.D degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) in Transportation Engineering in 2011. Prior to his studies in Singapore, he has obtained a Bachelor degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a postdoc research fellow in NUS. From 2012 to 2015, he was a lecturer in Monash University Australia, where he also served as the director of the Master of Transportation Systems Program. Any interested Ph.D applicants with a Master degree on Transportation Engineering or relevant areas are encouraged to apply for the international Ph.D program (with scholarship) in Southeast University at Nanjing China. If you have any queries, please email Dr. Liu for more information.

Researcher Prof. Yisheng Lv

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Biography:

Yisheng Lv is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He serves as the chair of the Comprehensive Intelligent Transportation Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation and is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. His main research areas include artificial intelligence and intelligent transportation, autonomous driving, and parallel traffic. He has received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Research Award (awarded to no more than one person annually) and the First Prize in Natural Sciences from the Chinese Association of Automation. He has also won the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award and multiple best paper/best student paper awards at the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, totaling 10 awards.

Prof. Feng Han

Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China

Biography:

Feng Han is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Lanzhou Jiaotong University. He currently serves as a member of the Survey and Design Committee of the China Railway Society, a member of the 7th Line Professional Committee of the Railway Engineering Branch of the China Railway Society, a council member of the National Transportation Engineering Survey Academic Committee, and a council member of the Gansu Province Society of Surveying and Geographic Information. His main research areas include integrated and intelligent railway route survey and design, existing track inspection technology, service performance evaluation and enhancement technology of railway tracks, and seamless track structure design. Han has led and completed one regional project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, two sub-projects under the major R&D plan of China Railway Group, and has actively participated in the renovation design of major railway trunk lines in western China and related scientific research projects in recent years. He has also led or participated in more than 20 other research projects and received two provincial- and ministerial-level awards. Han has published over 80 academic papers, including more than 20 high-level papers; applied for over 20 patents and software copyrights; published one monograph; and served as the chief editor of one nationally planned textbook and one recommended textbook for the Civil Engineering Excellence Program. He has completed multiple provincial- and ministerial-level teaching reform projects, including the Ministry of Education’s second batch of New Engineering Research and Practice projects. His teaching achievements have won one second prize at the national level and three special and first prizes at the provincial level. He has also supervised students who have won four national awards and more than ten provincial awards in competitions such as the National College Student Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the Chinese Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the China International “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the 13th National Zhou Peiyuan Mechanics Competition.

Prof. Pierluigi Siano

University of Salerno, Italy

Biography:

Pierluigi Siano (M’09–SM'14) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is a Full Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management & Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources into smart grids, and electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems.

Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Turoń

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Biography:

Katarzyna Turoń is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, Silesian University of Technology in Poland, where she combines research, international projects, and teaching in the Department of Road Transport. She lectures on Mobility Management, Project-Based Learning in Mobility, and Transport Regulation. Her expertise spans sustainable mobility management, open innovation, and the digital transformation of transport, with a strong focus on aligning policy, industry, and research. She has been recognized among the Top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists by Stanford University (2022–2025) and honored with awards such as Scientist of the Future and Top 100 Women in Engineering. Internationally, she has held prestigious fellowships at Oxford University and through the Visegrad Fund. She collaborates with leading universities worldwide (ie. Shanghai Jaio Tong Univeristy, China; Efrei Paris Panthéon-Assas Université, France) and serves as an editor for many journals, including, among others: Journal of Open Innovation, Technology, Market and Complexity, Green Technologies and Sustainability, Discover Cities, Journal of Transformative Technologies and Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Energies, and Future Transportation. She is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, invited to address international events on mobility, smart cities, and innovation policy.

Assoc. Prof. Norrima Mokhtar

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Biography:

Associate Professor Ir. Dr. Norrima Binti Mokhtar is a researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia. Her research expertise encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent sensors, computer vision, automation, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), human–computer interaction (HCI), and brain–computer interfaces (BCI). Her research focuses on developing intelligent engineering systems that integrate AI algorithms, sensor technologies and autonomous robotic platforms to address real-world challenges. A major area of her research is UAV-based environmental monitoring, particularly gas concentration mapping and source localisation using sensor arrays, autonomous navigation and reinforcement learning. She also investigates AI-driven computer vision for infrastructure inspection, structural crack detection, defect identification and precision agriculture, including crop health monitoring using aerial imagery and deep learning techniques. In addition, her research interests include biosensors, electrochemical sensing, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors, machine olfaction and intelligent measurement systems. She has also contributed to research involving EEG signal processing and human–computer interaction, demonstrating an interdisciplinary approach that connects electrical engineering, AI and human-centred technologies. Throughout her academic career, she has secured and contributed to research projects supported by national research funding schemes and industry collaborations. She has established international research collaborations with universities and research institutions in Japan, the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia. Her research aims to translate innovative technologies into practical applications in environmental sustainability, infrastructure safety, smart agriculture and autonomous systems. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, she seeks to advance AI-enabled sensing and robotics for sustainable development and next-generation engineering solutions.

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