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CCRIS 2026 Speakers

Prof. Hesheng Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

 

Biography: Dr. Hesheng Wang is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, dean of the Global College, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and General Chair of the top robotics conference IROS 2025. Dr. Hesheng Wang received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Harbin, China, in 2002, the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Automation & Computer-Aided Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an Associate Professor in 2009. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He worked as a visiting professor at University of Zurich in Switzerland. His research interests include visual servoing, service robot, robot control and computer vision.

 

 

Prof. Yanan Sun

Sichuan University, China

 

Biography: He has published about 50 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and most are published in IEEE TEVC, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TNNLS, CEC, and GECCO. Among the publications, four have been ranked as ESI TOP 1% Highly Cited Paper, three have been ranked as ESI TOP 0.1% Hot Paper, and two have been selected as Research Frontier papers from IEEE CIS Newsletter. Dr. Sun has made contributions to the research field of neural architecture search. In particular, the indicator “GPU Day” measuring the algorithm complexity of neural architecture search algorithm was firstly proposed by Dr. Sun. The term “performance predictor” which is a new research direction to accelerate neural architecture search was also firstly proposed by Dr. Sun. In addition, Dr. Sun has also led the construction of the BenchENAS platform that provides neural architecture search as a benchmarking platform. In addition, Dr. Sun has also been selected as “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021”.

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Pavel Loskot

Zhejiang University, China

 

Biography: Pavel Loskot earned a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's degree in Radio Electronics from the Czech Technical University. He served as a Research Scientist and Project Manager at the Wireless Communications Center of the University of Oulu, Finland, before moving to Canada to obtain his Ph.D. in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta. Since 2007, he has served as a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and a recognized postgraduate supervisor by the UK's Postgraduate Education Council. His current research interests focus on applying statistical signal processing methods to problems in telecommunications engineering and computational molecular biology.