| Professor, Guangjie HanHohai University, China Profile: GuangjieHan, Ph.D., Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is the Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering at Hohai University, and a Fellow of IEEE, IET, and AAIA. His primary research areas include underwater acoustic communication and networking, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and network security. In recent years, he has published over 380 high-level SCI journal papers in international journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, and IEEE TON (including more than 130 papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions series). As of now, his work has been cited over 18,600 times according to Google Scholar, with an H-index of 73. He haschaired more than 30 provincial and ministerial-level projects, including major projects from the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has receivedten provincial- and ministerial-level awards and holds 144 authorized invention patents. He has been included in the list ofTop 2% Scientists globally for six consecutive years (2019-2024) and the list of highly-cited scholars in China by Elsevier for four consecutive years (2020-2023). Currently, Dr.Han isan associate editor for over ten international journals, including IEEE TII, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TVT, and IEEE Systems. He has been recognized as a member of the Jiangsu Provincial 333 High-level Talent (Level 2) Program, an expert with Outstanding Contributions in Jiangsu Province, and has received various honors such as the Wuyi Labor Medal in Changzhou. |
| Professor, Gerhard P. Hancke SrNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Profile: Gerhard P. Hancke (M’88–SM’00–F’16–LF’19) received the B.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees (1970), and the M.Eng. degree (1973) from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the D.Eng. degree (1983) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, all in Electronic Engineering. He is a Professor with the College for Automation and College for Artificial Intelligence at the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is recognized internationally as a pioneer and leading scholar in Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) research, and was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to wireless sensor networks”. He initiated and co-edited the first Special Section on Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS in 2009 and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (TII) in 2013. He co-edited a textbook, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols and Standards (2013), the first on the topic. Two of his papers in the IWSN field are listed by ESI (Web of Science) as Highly Cited papers in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (ranked 3rd and 7th respectively). He received the TII Best Paper Award for 2012 (within the area of Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks). He co-edited a textbook, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols and Standards (2013), the first on the topic. Currently, he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS and Senior Editor of IEEE ACCESS. |
| Professor, Liang GeSouthwest Petroleum University, China Profile: Liang Ge holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southwest Petroleum University. He currently serves as the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School and the Deputy Director of the Office for "Double First-Class" Construction. From October 2016 to October 2017, he was a nationally sponsored visiting scholar at Durham University in the UK. He has been recognized as a Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Talent and is included in the list of reserve candidates for academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province. In 2023, he received a nomination for the Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talent Award in the fields of mining, petroleum, and safety engineering. He currently holds several academic and administrative positions, including member of the Sichuan Federation of Young Science and Technology Workers, member of the Youth Committee of the Chengdu Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, leader of the Youth Research Innovation Team for Downhole Intelligent Measurement and Control at Southwest Petroleum University, and academic tutor at Linxi Academy of Southwest Petroleum University. He also serves as a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation, as well as a peer reviewer for more than ten EI and SCI journals. He is an expert at the National Engineering Laboratory for Oil and Gas Pipeline Transportation Safety, an evaluation consultant for the "Science and Technology Innovation Alliance of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle", Deputy Chairman of the Urban Infrastructure Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and a member of the University Committee of the China Gas Association. His research and teaching primarily focus on intelligent measurement and control technologies in the field of oil and gas safety, with particular emphasis on downhole safety monitoring, gas safety monitoring and control, and buried detection. |
