Yu Xinghuo is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at RMIT University (Australia), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. He served as President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society from 2018 to 2019. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei) in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Southeast University (Nanjing) in 1988.

Matthias Mitterhofer, Professor of Building Digitalization Methods, TH Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences (Germany)