Keynote Speakers

Marc A. Rosen, P.Eng. is Professor and founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada. He is also President-elect of the Engineering Institute of Canada and has served as President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. With over 50 research grants and contracts and 400 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in thermodynamics, energy technology (including cogeneration, district energy, thermal storage and renewable energy), and the environmental impact of energy and industrial systems. Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and Dr. Rosen has also worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honours, and is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation. Dr. Rosen is a past chair of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, and is a founding associate editor for the International Journal of Exergy.

Ning Sun is currently a Professor with Nankai University and Shenzhen Research Institute of Nankai University, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include intelligent control for mechatronic/robotic systems with an emphasis on (industrial) applications.,Dr. Sun received the Machines 2021 Young Investigator Award, the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard) in 2018, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems Best Associate Editor Award in 2023, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems Outstanding Associate Editor in 2024, several journal/conference best/outstanding paper awards. He serves as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and IEEE Systems Journal.

Haoping Wang received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Lille University of Science and Technology (LUST), Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France, in 2008.,He is currently a Professor with Automation School, the Dean of Zhizhi Academy, and the Scientific and Executive Director of Sino-French Int. Joint Laboratory of Automatic Control and Signal Processing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He was Research Fellow with MIS Laboratory of Picardie University, Amiens, France and LAGIS of LUST. His research interests include the theory and applications of hybrid systems, visual servo control, observation design, exoskeleton robotics, friction modeling and compensation, modeling and control of diesel engines, biotechnological processes, and wind turbine systems.