Yuan Jing, Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor

Assistant Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University
Deputy Director, Institute of Robotics and Information Automation, Nankai University
Research Interests: Robot Control, Mobile Robot Navigation, SLAM, Object Detection and Tracking
Email: nkyuanjing@gmail.com
Received B.S. degree in Automation from Nankai University in July 2002, and Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Nankai University in July 2007. Recipient of Tianjin Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, selected for "Nankai University's Program for Training 100 Young Academic Leaders" and the second level of Tianjin "131" Innovation Talent Training Project, listed in Stanford University/Elsevier's Global Top 2% Scientists. Has led multiple projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China Joint Key/General/Youth Projects, National Key R&D Program Projects, Tianjin Natural Science Foundation General Projects, GF Projects, and enterprise collaboration projects. Received State Grid Corporation of China Science and Technology Progress First Prize, Best Paper in Automation Award of IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Finalist for Best Paper Award of IEEE Annual International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems, Finalist for Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, Best Paper Presentation Award at China Optics Valley AI Conference, and Outstanding Reviewer for Acta Automatica Sinica. Currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and Council Member of Tianjin Robotics Society.

Chen Fei, Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor

Assistant Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University
Research Interests: Multi-agent Systems, Complex Networks, Distributed Optimization, Cooperative Control
Email: fchen@nankai.edu.cn

Received Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Nankai University in 2009, conducted postdoctoral research at Utah State University from 2009 to 2010, visited University of California, Riverside from 2017 to 2018, and visited City University of Hong Kong in 2008, 2013, 2016, and 2024. Recipient of Hebei Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, selected for "Nankai University's Program for Training 100 Young Academic Leaders", New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of Hebei Higher Education Institutions, Hebei Province "333" Talent Project (Third Level), and listed in Stanford University/Elsevier's Global Top 2% Scientists (2023, 2024). Has led multiple projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China Major Cultivation/General/Youth Projects, Fujian Natural Science Foundation General Projects, Ministry of Education Returned Scholars Research Startup Fund, and enterprise collaboration projects. Published 1 monograph (Springer, first author), over 40 papers in IEEE/IFAC journals, and obtained over 30 patents. Published a long review paper in Foundations & Trends in Systems and Control (which publishes 2-3 papers annually). Received Hebei Province Natural Science First Prize (ranked second), Best Poster Paper Award at National Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, Nomination for Best Student Paper at National Complex Networks Conference (as supervisor), Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Outstanding Master's Thesis Supervisor of Fujian Province, Outstanding Master's Thesis Supervisor of Hebei Province, and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Nankai University. Currently serves as IEEE Senior Member, IFAC Technical Committee on Large Scale Complex Systems Member, Complex Networks and Complex Systems Committee Member of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Network Science and Engineering Committee Member of China Command and Control Society, and Council Member of Tianjin System Science and Industrial Control Society.

Liu Xiaobin

Research Interests: Object Re-identification, Metric Learning, Domain Adaptation Learning
Email: liuxb (AT) nankai (DOT) edu (DOT) cn
Website:https://www.xbliu.cn/
Received B.S. degree in Intelligent Science and Technology from Nankai University in 2016, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Application Technology from Peking University in January 2022. Joined Tencent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. as a Senior Researcher in February 2022, focusing on content processing and understanding research and algorithm framework development. Left Tencent in August 2024 and joined the Laboratory for Advanced Perception and Control at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, conducting research in embodied intelligence and multimodal content understanding. Has published 12 papers in international journals and conferences including TIP, PR, IJCAI, ACM MM, obtained 5 invention patents, and led one National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project and one National Postdoctoral Research Program. Participated in multiple National Key R&D Programs and National Natural Science Foundation projects. Received the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Transportation Engineering. Serves as reviewer for international prestigious journals and top conferences including TIP, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV.