Keynote Speaker I

Keynote Speaker II

IEEE Fellow, Prof. Derong Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Fellow of the IEEE (since January 2005). (2) CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. (3) University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois for 2006–2009. (4) A total of $1,324,233 research grants and funding from the National Science Founda-tion and industry since 1997. (5) A total of ten Ph.D. students graduated and a total of sixM.S. students graduated. (6) Elected AdCom member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for 2006–2008. (7) Associate Editor and Past Letters Editor of IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Associate Editor of two IEEE Magazines and the IFAC’s Automatica, Editor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Electronic Letter, and past Associate Editor of two IEEE Transactions. (8) General Chair of two international conferences, and Program Chair of five IEEE international conferences. (9) Published four monographs and four edited books. (10) 61 refereed journal papers and 118 conference papers.

Keynote Speaker III

IEEE Fellow, Prof. Donald C. Wunsch,
Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA

Donald C. Wunsch is the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly known as University of Missouri - Rolla), where he has been since 1999. His prior positions were Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Texas Tech University, Senior Principal Scientist at Boeing, Consultant for Rockwell International, and Technician for International Laser Systems. He received the Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle, the M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the same institution, and the B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico. He has over 300 publications, and has attracted over $8 million in research funding. He has produced thirteen Ph.D.'s – seven in Electrical Engineering, five in Computer Engineering, and one in Computer Science. Among many awards, he was elected IEEE Fellow, International Neural Networks Society (INNS) Fellow, the INNS Senior Fellow, has received the Halliburton Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He served on the Information Technology and Computing Committee of his institution and has been Chair of that committee since 2006. This is a Standing Committee of the Faculty Senate and is the primary interface between faculty governance and the Chief Information Officer. He is also a Senior Investigator of the Intelligent Systems Center at his institution. He served as voting member of the IEEE Neural Networks Council, Program Chair for the IEEE Neural Networks Council Distinguished Lecturer Series, Technical Program Co-Chair for IJCNN 02, General Chair for IJCNN 03, INNS Board of Governors Member, and was the 2005 President of the INNS.

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Gang Feng
IEEE Fellow
City University of Hong Kong

Gang Feng received the B.Eng and M.Eng. degrees in Automatic Control from Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, China in 1982 and in 1984 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1992.
He has been with City University of Hong Kong since 2000 where he is a Chair Professor and the associate provost. He is a ChangJiang Chair professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, awarded by Ministry of Education, China. He was lecturer/senior lecturer at School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1992-1999. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1997-1998, and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2007. His current research interests include piecewise linear systems, modeling and control of energy systems, and intelligent systems & control.
Prof. Feng is an IEEE Fellow, an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, and Mechatronics, and was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control System Society.