Prof. Gexiang Zhang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Automation and Director of the Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Technology and Systems at Chengdu University of Information Technology. He is an expert receiving the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, an IET Fellow, an IEEE Senior Member, a recipient of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education, an Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province, a Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation under the Tianfu Qingcheng Plan, a recipient of the Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Young Academic Leader Training Fund, an "Airport Talent" of Shuangliu District, Chengdu, and President of the International Membrane Computing Society. He has been selected for the Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list and the World's Top 2% Scientists list for several consecutive years. In 2019, he received the Grigore Moisil Award from the Romanian Academy. According to a special report on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, he was the first Chinese scholar to receive an award from the Romanian Academy as the first author, and also the first Chinese scholar to receive the Grigore Moisil Award. He has received numerous scientific and technological awards, including the First Prize of the Science and Technology Award of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Achievement Promotion Award, the Second Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Award, the Second and Third Prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation and the Outstanding Contribution Award from the China Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology Industrialization, and the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the China Instrument and Control Society. He has led five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as dozens of other national, provincial, and ministerial-level research projects. He has published three English monographs and one Chinese monograph, authored more than 160 SCI-indexed papers, and obtained two authorized U.S. invention patents and more than 60 authorized Chinese invention patents. Prof. Zhang serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief of the international journal JMC, and as an editorial board member of Axioms, IJPEDS, PPL, and SNCS. He has also served as Guest Editor-in-Chief or editorial board member for several international SCI journals, including IJNS and IJUC. In addition, he has served as Chair, Program Committee Chair, or Technical Committee Chair for dozens of international conferences.

Huosheng Hu received his MSc degree in Industrial Automation from Central South University, China, and his PhD degree in Robotics from the University of Oxford, U.K. After conducting robotics research at Oxford for 9 years, he joined Essex University as a Senior Lecturer in 1998, and then Reader in 2001 and Professor in 2002. He is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, United Kingdom since May 2025. His research interests span artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, human–robot interaction, embedded systems, mechatronics, data fusion, learning algorithms, and industrial automation. He has published more than 600 papers in journals, books, and international conferences, earning several Best Paper Awards. His publications have been cited over 22,712 times, with an H-index of 71 (Google Scholar), and he has been recognized among the world's top 2% most cited scholars (2020–2025).

Prof. Hu is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement & Control, a Life Senior Member of IEEE, and a founding member of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Committee on Networked Robots. He has served as Program Chair and as a member of Advisory and Organizing Committees for numerous international conferences, including IEEE IROS, ICRA, ICMA, and ROBIO. He is currently Executive Editor of the International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation and has previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Computing and the MDPI Robotics Journal.