Speakers

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti

IEEE FELLOW

 Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Maria Pia Fanti is a full professor of System and Control Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari in Italy. She obtained her Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1983. In 1999, she served as a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Since 1983, she has been affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, where she held the position of Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1998 and Associate Professor from 1998 to April 2012. Maria Pia Fanti is recognized as an IEEE fellow for her contributions to the modeling and control of discrete event systems. Her research interests span a range of topics including discrete event systems, Petri nets, consensus algorithms, networked and control systems, management and modeling of logistic systems, automated manufacturing systems, automatic guided vehicle systems, traffic networks, and healthcare systems. Maria Pia Fanti is the author of two books and over 280 papers, including 85 journal articles, 11 book chapters, and numerous conference proceedings papers.

Prof. Qinmin Yang

IEEE SENIOR MEMBER

Zhejiang University, China

Qinmin Yang obtained his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China in Tianjin, China, in 2001. He subsequently earned his Master of Science Degree in Control Science and Engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Beijing, China, in 2004. Furthermore, he completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, MO, USA, in 2007. Between 2007 and 2008, he served as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Missouri-Rolla. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a system engineer with Caterpillar Inc. Following that, he held another Post-doctoral Research Associate position at the University of Connecticut from 2009 to 2010. Since 2010, Dr. Yang has been affiliated with the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, where he currently holds the rank of professor. Additionally, he has held visiting positions at the University of Toronto and Lehigh University.

Prof. Yifei Pu

Sichuan University, China

Yi-Fei Pu received the Ph.D. degree from the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, in 2006. He is currently a Full Professor and the Doctoral Supervisor with the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, and the Chief Technology Officer with Chengdu PU Chip Science and Technology Co., Ltd. He is elected into the Thousand Talents Program of Sichuan Province as the Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province. He focuses on the application of fractional calculus tothe latest signal processing,such as thefractional-order image processing, the fractional-order machine intelligence and thefractional-order circuits and systems. He has authored with the first author’s identity about30 papers indexed by SCI in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Design & Test, International Journal of Neural Systems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, and Science China Information Sciences. He holds20 China inventive patents as the first or single inventor. He held positions in12 research projects, such as the National Nature Science Foundation of China and the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars Project of Education Ministry of China.

Prof. Hassan Haes Alhelou

IEEE SENIOR MEMBER

Monash University, Australia

Dr. Hassan Haes Alhelou is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University in Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. Prior to his current position, he was associated with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin 4, Ireland, from 2020 to 2021. He has also held positions at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and Isfahan University of Technology in Iran. Additionally, he served as a faculty member at Tishreen University in Syria.

In 2022, Dr. Alhelou was recognized as belonging to the Top 2% of scientists worldwide by the Stanford University database. He has also been included in the 2018 and 2019 Publons and Web of Science (WoS) lists of the top 1% of best reviewers and researchers in engineering and cross-fields globally. He has received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from various journals, including Energy Conversion and Management (ECM), ISA Transactions, and Applied Energy.

In 2011, Dr. Alhelou was awarded the Best Young Researcher distinction at the Arab Student Forum Creative, where he was selected among 61 researchers from 16 countries at Alexandria University in Egypt. He has also been honored with the Excellent Paper Award 2021/2022 from the IEEE CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, which has an SCI Impact Factor of 3.938 and is ranked in the Q1 category.

Dr. Alhelou regularly contributes to top-tier journals, and his research papers have received over 4500 citations, with an H-index of 36 and an i10-index of 100. He has authored or edited seven books published by renowned publishers such as Springer, IET, Wiley, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis.

He serves as an editor for several prestigious journals, including the IEEE Systems Journal, Computers and Electrical Engineering (published by Elsevier), IET Journal of Engineering, and Smart Cities. Additionally, he has conducted over 800 reviews for highly respected journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Energy, and the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.