Keynote Speakers

Prof. Xiaohu Zhou serves as a Professor (Doctoral Supervisor) at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program, a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was selected for the first batch of the “Special Assistant Researcher Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has also been named a “Distinguished Research Fellow” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His main research areas include endovascular robots, tactile bionic perception, and intelligent image navigation. He has published over 60 academic papers in the field, including 16 in IEEE Transactions (11 as first/corresponding author), and 18 in top-tier conferences such as MICCAI, ICRA, IJCAI, and AAAI. He holds 3 authorized international PCT patents and 23 Chinese invention patents.

He has been funded by the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, Youth Fund, CIE-Tencent Robotics X Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program, Beijing Science and Technology Program, Regional Joint Key Fund, and sub-projects of the China National Key R&D Program. He has received honors including the “President’s Special Award” from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the “Best Paper Award” from IEEE RCAR 2022/2023 (for two consecutive years) and ICBIR 2023, “Best Paper Finalist” at IEEE ICRA 2020 and CME 2017, and the “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award” from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Association of Automation.