 | Prof. Huiyu ZhouUniversity of Leicester Prof. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, supervised by Professors Patrick Green (Psychology) and Andrew Wallace (Computer Engineering). Prof. Zhou heads the AI and Machine Learning Group and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL) at University of Leicester. He was PGR Director of CMS (2022-2025), Director of MSc Programme (2018-2019) and Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning at Informatics (2018-2022), and currently is Deputy Director of Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM), Member of the Executive Group of Apollo-Leicester Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine (CDHPM). Prior to this appointment, he worked as Reader (2018-2020) at University of Leicester, and Lecturer (2012-2017) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast (QUB). He was a visiting scholar of QUB during 2018-2020. |
 | Prof. Feng DingJiangnan University Professor Feng Ding, a doctoral supervisor, mainly focuses on research in system identification, adaptive control, numerical methods, etc. He has undertaken and completed seven projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published 375 SCI papers in international journals, with over 15,000 SCI citations. Among them, 35 papers are ESI highly cited papers (as of September 1, 2022). Eight of his papers were selected as the "Top 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers of China" in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2020. He has published 45 papers in two authoritative journals in the field of control, namely "Automatica" and "IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control" (equivalent to "Nature" and "Science" in the field of control), as well as in the top journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, "SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization". |
 | Assoc. Prof. Hao FangWuhan Donghu University HaoFang, male, Han ethnicity, is from Wuhan, Hubei Province. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from South-Central Minzu University with a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Currently, he serves as the vice dean of the School of Electronic Information Engineering. His main courses include "Principles and Applications of Embedded Systems" and "Data Structures and Algorithms". Academic achievements: He has published 3 textbooks as the chief editor or co-editor; he has undertaken 1 provincial guiding fund project and participated in 2 horizontal scientific research projects as the principal investigator or co-investigator; he has published 6 research papers in SCI and EI conferences; and he has been granted 3 national utility model patents. |