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Prof. Yu Zhao | NSFC Excellent Young Scholar

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Prof. Zhao Yu is a Tenured Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), where he serves as an NPU Soaring Scholar and core member of Prof. Huang Panfeng's Soaring Research Team. Professor Zhao has long been engaged in research on cooperative decision-making, planning and control for swarm intelligence systems. To date, he has published over 100 academic papers, including 18 works in top-tier control journals IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) and Automatica (7 of which are full papers). He has served as principal investigator for more than 10 research projects. He has received the Second Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award (1 time), the First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Graduate Education Achievement Award (1 time), the National Best Paper Award on Complex Networks (1 time), and the Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Academic Paper Award in Natural Science (2 times). He has been consecutively listed in the World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists.

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Prof. Liang Yu | IEEE Senior Member

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Liang Yu, Professor and PhD supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, is a permanent member of two National Key Laboratories and a IEEE Senior Member. His research focuses on wave/vibration/acoustic sensing and intelligent information processing for mechanical equipment. He has developed theories and methods including synthetic aperture array non-synchronous measurement, cyclostationary modeling of rotating machinery, time-varying subspace Bayesian learning, and optimal transport-based acoustic modeling. He also developed fiber Bragg grating sensors and demodulation systems for acoustic-elastic wave sensing. These contributions have been applied to source identification, impedance extraction, and fault diagnosis. He serves on professional committees in vibration and aeroacoustics. Yu has published over 200 papers, with more than 100 as first/corresponding author in prestigious journals like MSSP, JSV, and TIM. He has led 3 NSFC projects and over 20 provincial and industrial projects, receiving 2 provincial awards and 7 best paper awards. He has contributed to key NSFC projects and 973 sub-projects. Yu is a reviewer for 34 journals and guest editor for 4 special issues.