Professor Hong K. LO is Department Head and Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His expertise includes dynamic transportation system modeling, traffic control, network reliability, and public transportation analysis. He has published extensively in the transportation literature, with a dozen book chapters, and 180 refereed journal papers. He was selected as one of the Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering by Elsevier in 2016. Professor Lo is very active in the transportation community, for instance, elected as Convener of the International Scientific Committee of the conference series Advanced Systems for Public Transportation (CASPT), serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics (2015 SCI Impact Factor 2.56), Managing Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and on the editorial boards of many international journals, including Transportation Research Part B, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, among others.

Weijia Wen, Professor of Department of Physics in HKUST. Prof. Wen's main research interests focus on advanced functional materials, including soft condensed matter, electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) fluids, micro- and nano-fluidic controlling, microsphere and nanoparticle fabrications, thin film physics, band gap materials, metamaterials and nonlinear optical materials. Prof. Wen has obtained 18 US patents and more than 40 Chinese patents. He has published over 300 papers, most of them are published in famous journals include of Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, etc. Among them, the outstanding work on ER fluids has been awarded the second prize in China's State Natural Science Award.

Ming LIU has been deeply involved in the field of unmanned systems and mobile robots for 17 years. He received a PhD in ETH in 2013, and won the highest award in the field of AI in China - the Wu Wen Jun Science and Technology Award, and the IEEE IROS Outstanding Youth Award (the only Chinese winner of the award). He has published more than 160 papers in the field of robotics and won 15 international best paper awards. He was the program chair of IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, International Robotics Alliance Conference, and International Conference on Computer Vision Systems. His team developed the first unmanned vehicle system in Hong Kong.