 | Prof. Jun ZhangChair of IEEE Wuhan Section Wuhan University, China Professor Zhang Jun is a tenured professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation and a “Wuhan University” Endowed Professor; he previously served as a tenured professor at the University of Denver in the United States. Professor Zhang currently serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Association of Automation, Associate Editor of the *Journal of Intelligent Science and Technology*, a member of the Editorial Board of the *Acta Automatica Sinica*, and a member of the Editorial Board of *IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems*. He has led more than 30 national, provincial, and ministerial-level research projects, including the major “New Generation Artificial Intelligence” project under the Science and Technology Innovation 2030 initiative. |
 | Prof. Wei YaoIET Fellow Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Professor and Ph.D. advisor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and Senior Member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and the Chinese Society for Electrical Technology. Deputy Director of the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Power Safety and Efficient Utilization, and member of the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering. He has led six projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including Young Scientist Grants, General Grants, Integrated Projects, Outstanding Young Scientist Grants, Joint Key Projects, and Key Projects) and two projects under the National Major Science and Technology Special Projects/National Key Research and Development Program. |
 | Prof. Om P. MalikIEEE Life Fellow The University of Calgary, Canada Dr. Malik graduated in electrical engineering in 1952 and obtained a Master’s degree in electrical machine design in 1962. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of London and a D.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London in 1965. Dr. Malik worked in electric utilities in India from 1952 to 1961 and spent one year, 1959-60, as a Confederation of British Industries Senior Scholar with manufacturing companies in the U.K. He taught at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from 1966-68 and joined the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1968. He was acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1981, Associate dean (Academic) from July 1979 to December 1990, and Associate Dean (Student Affairs) from July 1995 to December 1998. At present he is Professor Emeritus, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Calgary. |