Prof. Paolo Mercorelli (IEEE member)

Leuphana University, Germany

Bio:Paolo Mercorelli (Member, IEEE) received a PhD degree in systems engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he was Postdoctoral Researcher with Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research, Heidelberg, Germany, and this research activity has brought him 3 patents. From 2002 to 2005 he was Senior Researcher with the Institute of Automation and Informatics, Wernigerode, Germany, where he was the leader of the control group. From 2005 to 2011 he was Associate Professor of Process Informatics with Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg, Germany. Since 2012, he has been Full Professor and Chair of control and drive systems with the Institute for Production Technology and Systems, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany. Since winter semester 2024/2025, he has been Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology of Lublin University of Technology, Poland, where he has been responsible for different courses in the field of control theory. His current research interests include applications of Kalman filters, robotics, wavelets, geometric control, and sliding mode control. Dr. Mercorelli was the recipient of a three-year scholarship from the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Program, which is one of the most competitive and prestigious European awards sponsored by the European Commission from 1998 to 2001. He received seven best international conferences paper awards: IECON 2013, IECON 2014, CoDIT 2014, ICCC 2017, FedCSIS 2019, ACD 2019, ICCC 2020, ICSTCC 2023. In the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, he has been on the list of the top 2% scientists by Elsevier Database and (METRICS) University of Stanford (USA) (Ioannidis, J.; Boyack, K. & Baas, J., 2020, Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, PLOS, October 16). Since 2019 he has been Editor-in-Chief for the „Transactions on Computer Research“ an Open Access Journal from WSEAS. Since 2022, he has been Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Engineering Mathematics” in “Mathematics”, an Open Access Journal from MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Speech Title: Kalman Filters as Virtual Sensors and their Applications

Prof. Xingong Tang

Yangtze University, China

Bio: Xingong Tang, PhD, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, graduated from Jianghan Petroleum Institute with B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in 1992 and 1999, respectively, and graduated from Peking University with a D.Sc. degree in 2006. He is currently the director of the Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Resources and Exploration Technology of the Ministry of Education (Changjiang University). He has been awarded the Special Prize of Teaching Research Achievement of Changjiang University, the Excellent Teaching Quality Award of Changjiang University, the Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award of Changjiang University, and the Fifth Famous Teaching Teacher of Changjiang University. He is in charge of the national first-class undergraduate program of “Geophysics”. He is the head of the national first-class undergraduate program of “Geophysics”, and the top talent of Yangtze River Talent Program of Cheung Kong University. He has presided over 4 top-level projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 sub-project of National Key Research and Development Program, and 1 innovation fund of PetroChina. He has published more than 130 academic papers in various academic journals and international conferences, of which 20 are SCI and EI. He is currently a member of the Chinese Geophysical Society (CGS), a member of the European Association of Geologists and Engineers (EAGE), and a member of the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU).

Speech Title: Two-Dimensional Magnetotelluric Inversion Based on Residual Neural Network

Assoc. Prof. Faming Huang

Nanchang University, China

Bio: Huang Faming, doctoral supervisor and associate professor, is recognized as a young talent of "Double Thousand" high-end innovation in Jiangxi Province and an outstanding young scholar in Jiangxi Province. In 2015, he was dispatched by the Ministry of Education for a one-year joint doctoral training program in Australia. He graduated with a PhD from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2017. His main research focuses include interpretable machine learning modeling, the causal mechanisms of landslides, and the quantitative assessment of landslide risks based on GIS and machine learning. Mr. Huang serves as the deputy editor-in-chief of the CSCD core journal "Geological Science and Technology Bulletin" and the SCI journal "Frontiers in Earth Science", as well as a member of the editorial boards of high-quality journals such as "International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science", "Natural Hazards Research", and "Discover Geoscience". As the primary contributor, he was awarded the "Second Prize of Natural Science of Jiangxi Province", was included in Stanford University's "Top 2% Global Highly Cited Researchers" list for 2022-2024, was recognized as one of the "National Hundred Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers" by the China Institute of Science and Technology Information in 2020, and received the "Highly-Cited Author Award" of the journal "Geoscience Frontiers" in 2023. Dr. Huang has presided over one general project and one youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as over ten provincial and ministerial-level projects such as the Special Funding for Postdoctoral Research. He has published over 80 high-quality papers as the first author or corresponding author and has been granted over 20 patents and software copyrights. As of December 2024, his works have received a total of 5,890 citations in the Google database, with an H-index of 39 and an I-10 index of 97. Among them, 18 SCI papers in the top percentile of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been selected as hot or highly cited papers. The relevant research achievements have been promoted and applied in institutions such as the Nanjing/Wuhan Geological Survey Institute.

Speech Title: A Study on the Fine Assessment of Landslide Susceptibility and Population Density Based on Remote Sensing and GIS