Dr. Gang Xiong, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Email:gang.xiong@ia.ac.cn
Research Field: Artificial Intelligence Theory, Technology, and Applications
1. Artificial Intelligence Theory: AI big models, Intelligent control and management of complex systems, Parallel intelligence theory and algorithms, Embodied intelligence theory and algorithms, AI for sciences
2. Artificial Intelligence Technology: Intelligent perception and control, Internet of Things and edge computing, Cloud computing and big data, Parallel intelligent system/Digital twin
3. Transportation Intelligent Systems: Autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, Drones and low altitude transportation, Intelligent unmanned systems, Smart railways
4. Other Intelligent Systems: Smart robots, Industrial software, Smart energy, Intelligent manufacturing like integrated circuits, 3D printing and social manufacturing
Has trained more than 40 Ph.D. and Master students. Has trained more than 80 other kinds of students.
Education
1994-1996: Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China.
1991-1994: M.S., Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China.
1987-1991: B.S., Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China.
Experience
2022-Present: Professor & Ph.D. Supervisor. The State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2011-Present: Deputy Director, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Technology, China.
2008-2022: Appointed Professor/ Postgraduate Supervisor/ Professor/ Ph.D. Supervisor. The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2011-2024: Deputy Director, Cloud Computing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2008: Informatization Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2007: Accenture Senior Consultant and Team Lead of Chevron. Accenture, Sriven Systems Inc., USA.
2001-2007: Specialist and Project Manager. Nokia Corporation, Finland.
1998-2001: Senior Research Fellow. Tampere University, Finland.
1999-2001: Research Fellow, Funded by Academy of Finland, work with Tampere University, Finland.
1996-1998: Post Doctor and Associate Professor, Zhejiang University, China.
Honors & Distinctions
Selected Professional Affiliations and Membership:
2000-Present: Member (-2002)/Senior Member (2002-Present), IEEE ITSS, IEEE SMCS, IEEE RFID, IEEE RASS, IEEE VTS. IEEE CS, Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
2011-Present: Member (-2017) / Senior Member (2017-2023) / Fellow (2023-), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
2016-Present: Member (-2021) / Senior Member (2021-2023) / Distinguished Member (2023-), China Computer Federation (CCF).
2023-Present: Member (2023) / Senior Member (2024) / Life Senior Member (2024-), China Artificial Intelligence Society.
2023-2028: Vice Chairman, the Labor and Technology Engineering Education Working Committee, China Intelligent Engineering Research Association.
2022-2027: Technical Committee Member, the National Railway Intelligent Transportation System Engineering Technology Research Center.
2021- Present: Committee Director (preparatory) of 3D Printing and Social Manufacturing Society, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
2022.9-2027.8: Committee Member, Smart Railway Committee, China Railway Society.
2016-Present: Committee Member, Big Data Society, China Computer Federation (CCF).
Selected Awards and Honors:
2025. Key Technology and Application of Intelligent Additive Manufacturing System, CAA Technological Invention Award. 2nd Prize. Chinese Automation Association.
2024. A Flexible Intelligent Manufacturing System for Clothing and Footwear Industry based on 3D Vision and Intelligent Control, CAA Science and Technology Progress Award. 3rd Prize. Chinese Automation Association.
2023. Research and Application of Key Technologies for Optimizing Scheduling and Priority Control of Urban Public Transportation based on ACP, CAA Science and Technology Progress Award. First Prize, Chinese Automation Association.
2023. The paper is selected as Capital Frontier Academic Achievements in 2013, Beijing Association for Science and Technology. Gang Xiong, Fei-Yue Wang, Timo R. Nyberg, Mengchu Zhou, Xiuqing Shang*, Zhen Shen, Shuangshuang Li, Chao Guo. From mind to product: towards social manufacturing and service. IEEE/CAA Journal of Autom. Sinica, 2018, 5(1): 47-57.
2022. Basalt New Materials 3D Printing and Intelligent Manufacturing, The 17th "Chunhui Cup" Chinese Overseas Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Competition, Innovation Excellence Award, International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education.
2020. Research on the Active Safety Prevention and Control System Technology for Transportation and the Coordinated Application of People, Vehicles, and Roads. Guangdong Intelligent Transportation Science and Technology Award, First Prize, Guangdong Intelligent Transportation Association.
2019. 3D Personalized Human Scanning Measurement and Intelligent Processing for Intelligent Manufacturing, Wenjun Wu, Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress Award, Second Prize, China Artificial Intelligence Society.
2019. China Industry University Research Cooperation Innovation Award, Rank 1/1, China Association for the Promotion of Industry University Research Cooperation.
2018. Key Technologies and Applications of Parallel Traffic Management and Control. CAA Science and Technology Progress Award. Grand Prize. Chinese Automation Association.
2018. 3D Human Body Intelligent Measurement and Big Data Application Service, China Industry University Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award, 2nd Prize, China Association for the Promotion of Industry University Research Cooperation.
Selected Professional Services:
2026. Chair, Special Session “AI Driven Automation for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems”. The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).
2024, 2025, 2026, etc. Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
2011-Present: Evaluation Expert of S&T Projects like General Program, NSFC Outstanding Young Scientist Fund and NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
2009-Present: Evaluation Expert of S&T Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology, China.
2025: Editor, Special Issue “Artificial intelligence in photovoltaic systems: advanced modeling, optimization, forecasting, and fault
diagnosis”, Energy.
2024-2025: Co-Editor, Special Issue “The future of 3D printing-in the aspect of machine learning Industry4.0 and Industry5.0”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology.
May, 2024: Keynote speech "Technology Education and Industrial Applications in the Era of Artificial Intelligence", The 2024 International Youth Innovation Design Competition (Asia Pacific Challenge) and Youth Technology Exchange Activities, Hongkong, China.
Nov. , 2024: Keynote speech "Basic theory of complex system parallel control and typical parallel transportation systems", "Special Report on the Development of Maritime Intelligent Transportation" and "Beidou Navigation and Intelligent Transportation Academic Forum" hosted by Fujian University of Technology, The 2024 World Maritime Equipment Conference, Fuzhou, China.
2023-2024. Co-Editor, Special Issue “Advanced Paradigms, Systems and Enabling technologies for product life cycle”. MDPI Journals including Electronics, Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, Machines, Robotics, Systems.
2023-2024. Corresponding Editor. Special issue on social manufacturing after ChatGPT. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2024.
2022. Co-Editor, Special Issue "Social manufacturing on industrial internet", MDPI Machine.
2022. Keynotes Speech “Parallel intelligence driven cyber-physical-social Systems (CPSS) for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City”. on Special Sessions “Blockchain-based ITS: The Human Use of Cyber-Physical-Social Transportation Systems”, The 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, Macau, China.
2022. Chair, Special Session “Learning and optimization for cyber-physical-social systems”, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins & Parallel Intelligence.
2022. Co-Chair of Special Session "3D printing and social manufacturing", Keynotes Speech "Personalized customization needs promoting the development of 3D printing and social manufacturing", 2022 China Automation Conference.
2022. Co-Chair of Special Session "Parallel manufacturing", Keynotes Speech "Parallel control theory technology and application practice of parallel manufacturing", The parallel Intelligence Conference 2022.
2021. Co-Chair of Special Session "3D printing and social manufacturing", Keynotes Speech "Intelligent 3D printing technology and system", 2021 China Automation Conference.
2021. Technical Program Committee Track Chair, and Chair of Special Session “Social manufacturing: theories and applications”, The 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2021). August 2021, Chengdu, China.
Publications
He has successfully finished more than 50 academic or technical projects funded by Chinese NSFC/MOST/MIIT, Finnish TEKES, Academy of Finland, CAS, SINOPEC, Guangdong S&T, etc.
He is the author or co-author of about 500 refereed journal and conference proceeding papers.
He is editor or co-editor of 2 academic books, and the author of 11 chapters.
Publications homepages:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4303-5559
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gang-Xiong-6
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F4ypDHIAAAAJ