Prof. Xin Luo (IEEE Fellow), Southwest University, China

工学博士、博士后，西南大学二级教授、博士生导师，计算机与信息科学学院·软件学院院长，IEEE Fellow，国家高层次领军人才、中国科学院百人计划入选人。于2005年在电子科技大学计算机学院取得工学学士学位，2011年在北京航空航天大学计算机学院取得工学博士学位。研究聚焦数据科学领域，在IEEE T-PAMI、T-KDE、T-NNLS等国际期刊和WWW、ICDM等国际会议上发表学术论文350余篇（含中科院一区期刊论文120篇、IEEE Transactions/Journal论文151篇、ESI高引论文32篇），累计影响因子超过1000，Web of Science统计引用超过9000次，谷歌学术统计引用超过14,000次，H指数为74。先后主持国家级项目7项，省部级项目10余项，累积负责科研经费超过5000万元。获国家发明专利授权35项、实现27项授权专利的成果转化，累积产生经济效益超过2亿元。获重庆市自然科学一等奖（2019/第一完成人）、重庆市科技进步一等奖（2018/第二完成人）、中国人工智能学会吴文俊人工智能科技进步一等奖（2018/第三完成人）等科技奖励。现任神经网络领域国际著名期刊IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems和中国科技期刊卓越行动计划重点类期刊IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica的编委，获IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems的2022-2024年度优秀编委奖、IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica的2020年度优秀编委奖，自2022年起连续入选斯坦福与爱思唯尔全球前2%顶尖科学家“终身科学影响力”榜单和爱思唯尔“中国高被引学者”榜单。

Prof. Nikolaos M. Freris, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Nick Freris is Professor in the School of Computer Science at USTC and former Vice Dean of the InternaDonal College (2019-2024). He received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the NaDonal Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2005, and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the M.S. degree in MathemaDcs, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2007, 2008, and 2010, respectively.
His research lies in AIoT: distributed learning, opDmizaDon, data mining, networking, and control, with applicaDons in intelligent transportaDon, power systems, and roboDcs. His research has been sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Anhui Department of Science and Technology, Tencent, and the NaDonal Science FoundaDon (NSF), USA. He was recognized with the USTC Alumni FoundaDon InnovaDon Scholar Award (twice), the IBM High Value Patent Award, and the IBM InvenDon Achievement Award (twice).
Previously, he was with the faculty of New York University (Abu Dhabi and New York) and, before that, he held senior researcher and postdoctoral researcher posiDons at EPFL and IBM Research in Switzerland. Dr. Freris is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and CCF. Website: h8p://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~nfr/.

Speech Title: SpiRobs: Bioinspired So/ Spiral Robots

Abstract: SpiRobs morphologically replicate the spiral pa8ern that is ubiquitous in natural organisms (elephant, octopus, chameleon, etc.). They are easy and fast to build across arbitrary scale via 3D prinDng. Cable actuaDon allows for fast and life-like movements. Besides, a single robot can handle a wide variety of objects (in terms of size, shape, and weight). A key to this is a bioinspired grasping strategy from the octopus. Finally, I will also demonstrate a wide range of prototypes, including a miniaturized gripper, a manipulator mounted on a drone, and mulD-robot arrays that can grasp in a tendril-like fashion. A video descripDon is available at: h8ps://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CDCVYtEoW.