Biography:
Shuang Du, a native of Sichuan, China, was born in 1983. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electronic Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2005. He then pursued graduate education at the University of Calgary, Canada, receiving his M.Sc. in 2010 and his Ph.D. in 2015, both in Geomatics Engineering. Dr. Du embarked on his professional career at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2015, and he is serving as an associate professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also recognized as an expert committee member of both the China BeiDou Open Laboratory and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology. His primary research and teaching activities focus on autonomous navigation and route planning for unmanned systems, as well as the field of embodied intelligent robots.
Dr. Du has presided over or led a series of research projects including the Key R&D Program of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Key R&D program of Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, achieving a series of innovative research outcomes. He was the recipient of the 2018 Second Prize of the Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award (China) and the 2024 Third Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in reputable journals and conferences, and granted more than 10 invention patents, five of which have been commercialized, generating significant economic benefits. Dr. Du pioneered the use of rotational modulation to suppress random error drift in inertial devices, effectively solving the key challenge of error divergence in long-term autonomous navigation. Building upon this foundational technology, he led his team in the development of an autonomous navigation system for ground wheeled vehicles, which has now entered the commercialization phase.
Biography: Lie Meng Pang received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. She is currently a Research Associate with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Her research interests include evolutionary multiobjective optimization and fuzzy systems. She received the Best Paper Award from EMO 2025. She is an IEEE Senior Member.