Jiangping Hu
Professor with the School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. Supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and was selected as Worlds’Top 2% Scientists

Biography: Jiangping Hu received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics and the M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in modeling and control of complex systems from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2007.,He has held various positions with the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; and Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His current research interests include multi-agent control, social dynamics, and distributed optimization. He was supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and was selected as Worlds’Top 2% Scientists. He serves as editorial board member of Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Kybernetika, and PLOS Complex Systems.

Wenxue Wang
Professor of State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Member of International Electrotechnical Commission's Bio-Digital Fusion System Evaluation Group (IEC/SMB/SEG12), Member of Chinese Simulation Society's Robotics System Simulation Committee, Council Member of Micro-Nano Robotics Branch of Chinese Society of Micro-Nanotechnology

Biography: Wenxue Wang received the B.S. degree in automation from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1996, the M.S. degree from Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and systems engineering from Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, in 2006. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas Tech University and University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Since October 2012, he has been a researcher at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is a candidate of the second batch of Liaoning Province's ‘Ten Hundred Thousand Project’ at the ‘Hundred People’ level. His research interests include life-like robots, control theory, computational biology and neuroscience, and cellular tissue engineering.