Biography: Qingsong Xu is a Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Macau, and Director of Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, the National University of Singapore, Singapore, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
His current research involves micro-/nanorobotics, flexible robotics, intelligent control, and their industrial and biomedical applications. He has published 6 books and over 500 papers in international journals and conferences, cited more than 17000 times in Google Scholar with an H-index of 71. Prof. Xu has received over a dozen best paper awards at international conferences and multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. He was selected into the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, released by Stanford University in 2019-2025.
He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Mechatronics. He was a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He is a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and Fellow of AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association). He is a Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI).

Biography: Makoto Iwasaki received his B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT), Japan, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. He is currently Vice President of NIT, responsible for international affairs, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
As an active contributor to the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), he has served in various leadership roles, including Chair of the IES Fellow Evaluation Committee (2022–2023), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2016–2022), and Vice President for Planning and Development (2018–2021), among others. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 for his "contributions to fast and precise positioning in motion controller design." He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) and a member of the Science Council of Japan.
Dr. Iwasaki has received numerous prestigious academic, foundation, and government awards, including the Best Paper and Technical Awards from IEEJ, the Nagamori Award, the Ichimura Prize, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education. He has also been recognized in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University and Elsevier.
His current research interests focus on the application of advanced control theories to linear and nonlinear modeling, precision positioning, and intelligent motion control, through extensive collaboration with industry.