Keynote Speakers

Prof.  Xiaohuan Li

Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Experience: Prof. Xiaohuan Li received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees  in information and communication engineering from the Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2015. From 2016 to 2019, he was a postdoctor with Beihang University, Beijing, China. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Université de Nantes, France, in 2014. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology and Research fellow with the National Engineering Laboratory of Application Technology of Integrated Transportation Big Data. He has published over 50journal articles and conference papers and has published one books and two book chapters. His current research interests include wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, UAV networks, and cognitive radios.

Prof.  Junzheng Jiang

Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Experience: Junzheng Jiang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in applied math from the Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China, in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2011. He is now with the Guilin University of Electronic Technology, where he is currently a full professor and an Advisor of a Ph.D. student. From February 2016 to February 2017, he was a visiting scholar with the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. His research interests include graph filter bank, distributed signal processing on graphs, and time-vertex signal processing on graphs.

Prof. Yaping Zhao

Northeastern University, China

Experience: 

Dr. Yaping Zhao is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Northeastern University China. He received his M.Sc. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2005, all in mechanical engineering. His research interests lie in Meshing Theory for Mechanical Transmissions, Research and development of novel types of gear drive, Engineering Differential Geometry and so on. His academic titles include: New Century Excellent Talent Awarded by Chinese Ministry of Education, Excellent Talent in Institutions of Higher Learning in Liaoning Province, Jianlong specially-appointed professor of Northeastern University China, Leading talent of Shenyang, Promising Young Person of Science and Technology of University, etc. As corresponding or first author, Dr. Zhao has published more than 30 papers in the international SCI journals, for example Mechanism and machine theory, ASME journal of Mechanical Design, Computer-Aided Design, Applied Mathematical Modelling, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Journal of Vibration and Control, Proc. IMechE C JMES, Forschung im Ingenieurwesen, Tribology Transactions, and Science China Technological Sciences. He was invited several times to contribute special chapter for the monograph in the book series of mechanisms and machine science published by Springer. He was repeatedly rewarded for best paper by the academic community and government agency. He won China Production-Study-Research Cooperation Innovation Prize. Dr. Zhao holds 4 China patents on the worm drive invention. Dr. Zhao made oral presentation on many international academic conferences on gearing, for instance PTG in the U.S., MPT of JMSE in Japan, IGC in France, ICG in Munich of Germany, EuCoMeS in European, MTM & Robotics in Romania, and IFToMM world congress. Moreover Dr. Zhao often served as session chair and contribution reviewer for these conferences. Dr. Zhao presided over a lot of scientific research projects on gearing, whose representative supporter is NSFC. Dr. Zhao is a senior member of CMES and a member of ASME. He serves as the deputy chairperson of the TC of gearing and transmissions in IFToMM and the research grant proposal assessor in the field of gear drive for many institutes who manage the scientific research fund. He also serves as the reviewer for a number of international SCI journals, and the editorial board member of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Advances in Computational Design.