Keynote Speakers
Prof. Minvydas Kazys Ragulskis, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Tentative speech title: Nonuniform embedding based feature extraction for bearing fault diagnosis
Minvydas Ragulskis is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical Modelling at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems, with particular interests in nonlinear time series analysis, nonlinear differential equations, chaotic and complex networks, and intelligent fault diagnosis. He has supervised 14 doctoral dissertations to completion. Prof. Ragulskis has been included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist List and is a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) and an invited expert at the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency. He has served as a plenary speaker at numerous national and international conferences.
Prof. Hang Su, Paris-Saclay University, France
Tentative speech title: Evolutionary Human–robot Interaction for Future Embodied Systems
Hang Su is currently a Professor at the IBISC Laboratory, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Évry Paris-Saclay, France. He received his Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2019. He currently serves as a Co-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems. He has been invited to deliver a talk at Nature Conferences Autonomous Robotics 2026. He is actively involved in the academic community through editorial services, including Associate Editor of the IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter and associate-editor roles for several IEEE Transactions journals, as well as leading international robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. Dr. Su has published over 150 papers in international journals and conferences. His research contributions have been recognized by multiple awards, including the Outstanding Interaction Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2022, the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2021), the Best Conference Paper Award in Advanced Robotics at ICARM 2020, and the ICRA Travel Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2019. His research interests include human–robot interaction, medical robotics, exoskeletons, sensor fusion, bilateral teleoperation, and embodied intelligence.
Prof. Changfu Zou, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Changfu Zou is Professor of Automatic Control. He has worked in battery management systems since 2012, with research focusing on fast charging/discharging optimization, AI-based diagnosis and prognosis, reconfigurable battery systems, thermal management, and scientific AI methods. Many of his works are conducted in collaboration with industry partners, such as Volvo, Scania, and ABB. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, from 2015 to 2016. As PI, he has secured competitive research funding, including the Swedish Research Council Starting Grant, Swedish Research Council Project Grant, seven EU-funded projects under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and four projects from the Swedish Energy Agency. His recognitions include IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award, the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification Prize Paper Award, and selection to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)’s 100 List. He has also been appointed as a review expert for research grants by the European Commission (e.g., Horizon Europe CL5), NSF USA, Academy of Finland, Cariplo Foundation in Italy, and NSERC, among others. He currently serves as an associate editor for three IEEE journals (IEEE TVT, TTE, and VTM).
Prof. Kai-Da Xu, University of Alcalá, Spain
Kai-Da Xu (IEEE Senior Member) received the B.E. and first Ph.D. degrees in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively, and the second Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2024. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor with Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From 2018 to 2019, he was an Honorary Fellow with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow with Tohoku University. Since 2020, he has been with Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, where he is currently a full Professor. From August 2023 to September 2023, he was a Visiting Professor at Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, under the financial support by JSPS. Since 2024, he has been a European Marie Curie Fellow with the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, supported by European Union’s Program Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). He has authored and co-authored over 130 articles in IEEE Transactions/Letters/Journals. He was in the list of “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” for 4 years announced by Elsevier in 2023~2026. He was listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists in both of the Career-Long and Single-Year impact rankings published by Elsevier and Stanford University. His current research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave/THz devices, integrated circuits, and antenna arrays. Dr. Xu received two fellowships from the JSPS. He was the winner of the Electronics 2023 Young Investigator Award. He has been serving as a Youth Editorial Board Member for the Nano-Micro Letters and InfoMat, an Editorial Board Member for the AEÜ-International Journal of Electronics and Communications,and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. Also, he has been serving as an Associate Editor for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, and Electronics Letters. As a Guest Editor, he has organized several special issues in some journals, such as Materials & Design, Frontiers in Physics, ACES Journal and so on. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE ACCESS from 2017 to 2025.