Prof. Hui Liu

Central South University, China

Biography：

Liu Hui, born in 1983, male, Professor, doctoral supervisor, and vice dean of Faculty of Traffic & Transportation Engineering, Central South University. He is a World 2% Top Scientist and Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar. He is awarded the top national young talents of China. He obtained double PhD degrees from Central South University in China and University of Rostock in Germany and Germany professorship certification. He leaded and completed the excellent youth fund of Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. He received one second prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of education and one national science and Technology Progress Award (innovation team). He authorized 3 international patents and authorized 89 national invention patents. He has been leading 1 national key R&D project and 3 national natural science Foundation of China. He published 7 English Monographs from Springer and Elsevier Press, 1 Chinese monograph of Science Press and 18 ESI Hot/Highly Cited papers as the first author.

Prof. Subhas Mukhopadhyay

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, IETE Fellow

Macquarie University, Australia

Biography:

Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold medallist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 34+ years of teaching, industrial and research experience. Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. He is Director of International Engagement of School of Engineering. His fields of interest include smart sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network, IoT etc. He has supervised over 60 postgraduate students and over 180 Honours students. He has examined over 80 postgraduate theses.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India), a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE Review of Biomedical Engineering, IoP Measurement Science and Technology. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He is the Founding chair of IEEE IMS NSW chapter and was the Founding chair of IEEE NSW Sensors Council Chapter.

Prof. Said Easa

Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Biography：

Dr. Said Easa earned his M.Eng. from McMaster University and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He has more than two decades of teaching, research, and professional practice, and he has authored and co-authored more than 350 technical work, including nearly 200 refereed journal articles and book contributions. Dr. Easa was Vice-President (Administration) of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and member of CSCE Board of Directors. In 1996, he has initiated and chaired the highly successful CSCE transportation conference series, held in Edmonton, Halifax, London, Montreal, Saskatoon, and Toronto.

Dr. Easa's international activities include serving as chair of the ASCE Intermodal Committee, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, and guest editor of several special issues of this journal. Dr. Easa was Chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE Urban Transportation Division (1997) and its CSCE counterpart (1994-98), and co-chair of the ASCE conference on "Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality: Making the Connection," Portland, Oregon, 1998. Dr. Easa has led a CSCE delegation to China in 1998 focusing on sustainable transportation systems.

His work received several national/international best-paper and lifetime achievement awards, including the 2005 Arthur M. Wellington Prize, from ASCE for the best paper on transportation on land, on water, in air, or on closely related fields such as structural, geotechnical, and environmental engineering, the 2003 Sandford Fleming Award from CSCE in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the development and practice of transportation engineering in Canada", and the 2001 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from ASCE in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to ASCE and the transportation profession throughout his career."

Prof. Lidong Zhang

Shandong Jiaotong University, China

Biography：

Lidong Zhang, born in 1979 in Mengyin, Shandong, holds a PhD in engineering and graduated from the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. His lectures include "Automatic Control of Station Signal", "Introduction to Railway", "Object Oriented Programming", and "Vehicle Networking Technology". 

His main study interests include traffic control, swarm intelligence, sustainable transportation. In recent five years, he has taken part in two NSFC projects and five other types of projects, and he has published about sixty academic papers, and half of them were indexed by SCI/EI database. And he was granted six invention patents and twenty software copyrights .