Biography: Ruqiang Yan is a Full Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include data analytics, AI, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis of large-scale, complex, dynamical systems.
Dr. Yan is a Fellow of IEEE (2022) and ASME (2019). His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the New Century Excellent Talents in University Award from the Ministry of Education in China in 2009, and multiple best paper awards. Dr. Yan is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal, and Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering.
Biography: Before joining Northumbira University, Dr. Zhiwei Gao held research and academic positions respectively in Newcaslte University, University of Liverpool, University of Leicester, University of Manchester, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Tianjin University.
He was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Reserach Fellowship in 2004. He was elevated to the IEEE Fellow class in 2023. He is also Fellow of AAIA and Fellow of HEA.
Dr. Gao is currently the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industral Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISA Transactions (Elsevier), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer), and and the editorial board member of Renewable Energy (Elsevier). From 2023, he has been appointed as the Senior Editor of IEEE Access.
Biography: Peng (Paul) Wen is a leading professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests include control systems, biomedical engineering, signal processing, brain modelling and AI, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He received his B.E., M. E. and PhD degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and another PhD degree in biomedical engineering from Flinders University of SA, Adelaide, Australia.
