2026 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (ICOECAI 2026)

IEEE Life Fellow, IET Fellow and International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences Fellow

Professor Loi Lei Lai received his B.Sc. (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK, in 1980 and 1984 respectively. His D.Sc. is from City St George's, University of London, London, UK, in 2005. All degrees are in electrical and electronic engineering. Professor Lai is currently Chairman of DRPT International Incorporated, Australia. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Professor & Chair of Electrical Engineering with City, University of London, London, UK and University Distinguished Professor with Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.Professor Lai received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal; the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000; a special award from City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate; the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009 (Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion); the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013, 2014 and 2026; the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2015 and 2024; IEEE Standards Association Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions in 2020 & 2024 and Plaque in 2026. Professor Lai is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter; a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Board of Governor; Member-at-large, IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Committee on Standards & was Chair of the Seed Funding ad hoc Committee; Chair of IEEE/SMCS Standards Committee; IEEE/SMCS Fellow Committee Evaluator; IEEE/SMCS Distinguished Lecturer and was IEEE/PES Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Assessor. He was the Director of Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities of IEEE/SMCS; and a Fellow Committee Evaluator and Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. His current research and development interests are in smart cities, smart grid, clean energy and computational intelligence. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, IET Fellow and International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences Fellow.

speech title: Reliable Battery State of Charge Perception in Autonomous Unmanned Systems

Professor, Master's Supervisor, and Doctoral Supervisor. He received his Bachelor's degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Process Control from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2017. From August 2017 to August 2018, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, focusing on artificial intelligence methods for fault diagnosis in production processes. From September 2018 to September 2020, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, working on machine learning-based online intelligent detection and estimation of model mismatch in modern industrial processes and process industry systems, as well as research on intelligent manufacturing technology and industrial applications.

(1) Cooperative information perception, state estimation, fault detection and estimation for distributed parameter systems based on artificial intelligence learning;

(2) Advanced process control for industrial big data based on data-driven reinforcement learning;

(3) Adaptive learning modeling of industrial systems based on edge computing, cloud control, fuzzy logic systems, and deep neural networks;

(4) Model parameter mismatch estimation based on artificial neural networks, Autoencoders, and other models;

(5) Learning strategy-based intelligent inspection control and path optimization for intelligent vehicles, robots, etc.

In the past five years, he has published over 80 academic papers in journals such as *Automatica*, *IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control*, and IEEE Transactions. He also serves as a member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Management of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), a member of the Intelligent Manufacturing Professional Committee of the Hunan Nonferrous Metals Society, and a member of the Technical Committee on Autonomous Unmanned Systems of CAAI.

Prof. Chao Deng
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
National-Level Young Talent

speech title: Research on Cooperative Secure Control for Cyber-Physical Microgrid Systems

Chao Deng received his Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Northeastern University, China, in 2018. From 2018 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Professor and Doctoral/Master's Supervisor at the Institute of Carbon Neutrality Advanced Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is a recipient of the National-Level Young Talent Program and a High-Level Talent of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His main research interests include cooperative security control of cyber-physical systems, reliable and secure control of smart grids, target detection and formation control of autonomous unmanned vehicles, cooperative formation control of UAVs, and applications of artificial intelligence algorithms in medical informatics.

As first and corresponding author, he has published over 50 papers in SCI journals (including 12 papers in top control journals such as IEEE TAC and Automatica), 15 ESI Highly Cited Papers, and has received over 8,300 Google Scholar citations. One of his papers received the 2022 IEEE SMC Society Best Transactions Paper Award (2022 Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award). He also serves as an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the Chinese Association of Automation, and an editorial board member of the international journal Journal of Control and Decision.

Prof. Daowen Qiu is a professor at Sun Yat-sen University and holds a Ph.D. in Science. In August 2002, he completed his postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University and joined Sun Yat-sen University in the same year. Since 2004, he has been appointed as a full professor of computer science and a doctoral supervisor. He has been engaged in research on quantum computing and quantum information for over 20 years. His main research directions include quantum computing models, quantum query algorithms, distributed quantum algorithms, (fuzzy, probabilistic, and quantum) automata, and discrete event systems. His research integrates classical and quantum computing processing, aiming to achieve better physical realizability and intrinsically outperform classical computation. He has published more than 200 academic papers in academic journals and conferences, and has authored an academic monograph on quantum automata. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member for Theoretical Computer Science, an associate editor for Frontiers in Computer Science, and an editorial board member for Quantum Reports.

Prof. Wei Liu received the B.Eng. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2009, the M.Eng. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include cooperative control of multi-agent systems, nonlinear control, modeling and control of robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Prof. Liu was a recipient of the High-Level Young Talent Program, the TCL Young Scholar Endowed Position, the SCUT Elite Scholar of Xinghua Scholar Talent Program, and the Chinese Association of Automation Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award.

He has published more than 70 academic papers as the first or corresponding author, including 10 papers in the top automatic control journals IEEE-TAC and Automatica. He presided over more than 10 research projects including sub-projects of National Key R&D Program, NSFC General Program, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation General Program and Guangzhou Science and Technology Program. He has served as Technical Committee Chair, Program Chair, Organizing Committee Chair, Publications Chair, and other roles for multiple international conferences. He is currently a Member of the editorial board of Control Theory & Applications and Unmanned Systems. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and CAA, and a Member of CICC.