Prof. Zongze Wu

RAE Foreign Full Member (Academician)

Shenzhen University, China  (click)

Zongze Wu, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean at the School of Electromechanical Engineering and Control at Shenzhen University. He is also a part-time professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and a leading talent in scientific and technological innovation for young and middle-aged scientists under the "National Innovation Talent Promotion Program." Wu is recognized as a leading talent in technological innovation under the Guangdong Province "Special Support Plan," and serves as the chief scientist for the 2030 National Major Project on New Generation Artificial Intelligence. He is the chair of the Industrial Vision Professional Committee (established) of the Chinese Association of Automation, the chief scientist for industrial vision applications at the National Engineering Laboratory for Visual Information Processing and Applications, and the technical leader of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Base. His research focuses on the new generation of artificial intelligence, industrial vision, and intelligent manufacturing.

Prof. Xianmin Zhang

South China University of Technology, China  (click)

He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a national-level candidate of the National "Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project", and a specially-appointed professor of the Pearl River Scholars Program. He is currently the dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at South China University of Technology and the academic leader of the discipline of Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation. Graduated from the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Beihang University in 1993 with a Doctor of Engineering degree. He/She has conducted postdoctoral research at Northwestern Polytechnical University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in the United States respectively. He was exceptionally promoted to professor in 1998. Obtained the qualification of doctoral supervisor in 2008. In 2012, he/she became the dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering. He has concurrently served as the Chairperson of the China Committee of the International Federation of Mechanical and Machine Sciences (IFToMM) (since 2016), the Deputy Director of the Mechanical Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society, and the Deputy Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, among other positions. Served as the associate editor of "ASME Journal of Mechanismand Robotics" (2013-2016) and "Chinese Journal of Mechanical" Editorial board member of Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Vibration Engineering, China Mechanical Engineering, Natural Science Edition of Journal of South China University of Technology, and Journal of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, etc. The research fields involve robot mechanisms, precision positioning and precision operating systems, precision electronic equipment and modern control technologies, etc. The large-scale environmental protection equipment automatic monitoring system developed by the research team led by the leader for the enterprise has been exported to Russia. The "Lead-free assembly Complete Equipment for Circuit Boards", "automatic optical Inspection Equipment" and "Complete Equipment for Photovoltaic Solar Cell Production" developed in cooperation with enterprises have been successfully industrialized, achieving remarkable economic and social benefits.