Prof. Jun Li is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor at School of Vehicle and Mobility with Tsinghua University, president of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, director of the Expert Committee of China Industry Innovation Alliance for the Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. He has been chief engineer and director of technology center in China FAW Group. His research interests include internal combustion engine, electric drive systems, electric vehicles, and intelligent connected vehicles.

Research experience：

Prof. Jun Li has long presided over the product R&D and technological innovation for major automobile companies in China. He established a leading independent research system and completed a number of major product replacement projects, major national projects, and major equipment model development projects. In the field of automotive powertrain, he presided over the development of heavy-duty series diesel engines, series products of direct injection supercharged gasoline engines, heavy-duty equipped trucks, military vehicles, and HongQi luxury cars. He also presided over the R&D and mass produce of the diesel automated electronic control system products. Further, he invented dual-track electronically controlled variable fuel injection regular high-pressure systems and gas-driven urea injection system. For new energy vehicle, he invented a strong hybrid configuration with dual coupling of motor, engine, and gearbox, and presided over the development of the first full hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles as well as hybrid bus products. In the area of intelligent connected vehicles, he proposed a technology strategy, "Zhitu", and technical route for China FAW’s intelligent connected vehicles. In addition, he designed the HongQi L3 prototype vehicle and the forward-looking R&D of smart city intelligent automobiles.

Prof. Frank Zhao is the honorable lifetime president of FISTIA and a Professor and Director of Automotive Strategy Research Institute at Tsinghua University, China (since May 2013) where he leads a strategic research group on automotive industry policy, corporate management and technology strategies.

Prof. Zhao received a doctorate degree in Engineering from Hiroshima University in Japan in 1992 and has years of on-the-job experience in Japan, United Kingdom, United States, and China. Prior to joining Tsinghua University, Prof. Zhao had the experience of Vice President of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, President of Zhejiang Geely Automotive R&D Center, President of Zhejiang Automotive Engineering Institute, and Chairman of DSI company of Australia since November 2006; Vice President of Shenyang Brilliance JinBei Automobile Company Limited and General Manager of its R&D Centre since 2004; and Engineering Specialist and Research Executive of Technical Affairs at DaimlerChrysler since 1997.

At Daimler Chrysler, Prof. Zhao was responsible for providing technical guidance and advice to product team managers and engineers within the corporation, relating to engine development issues and advance Powertrain technologies. He represented the Chrysler Group in various consortium activities. Prof. Zhao led the development of nearly 20 passenger cars, SUVs and more than 10 powertrains at Brilliance and Geely since his return to China in 2004. Also, Prof. Zhao had extensive experience in international acquisitions and overseas operations, including Geely's acquisition of British Manganese Bronze Holdings, Australian DSI Holdings, and Volvo Car Corporation. In addition, he was also heavily engaged in the strategic collaboration with these companies.

Prof. Zhao has published five books and more than 300 technical papers in English, Japanese and Chinese, and owned more than 200 patents. Prof. Zhao received many recognizations in his career including but not limited to the 2001 SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, Fellow of SAE in 2006, China Automobile Industry Outstanding Person in 2008, CTO of the Year in 2008 and Executive of the Year for Product Planning in 2009 by China Automotive News, the Silver Medal of National Scientific and Technological Progress in 2009, the Gold Medal of China Automotive Science and Technology Progress in 2012, and the Gold Medal of China Enterprise Management in 2012.

Xiangmo Zhao received the B.S. degree from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chang'an University, Xi'an, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, and the President of Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an. He is a Vice President of the Joint Laboratory for Connected vehicles, Ministry of Education and China Mobile, and the Shaanxi Road Traffic Intelligent Detection and Equipment Engineering Technology Research Centre, and is also a Leader of the National Key Subjects-Traffic Information Engineering and Control, Chang'an University. His research interests include connected vehicles, automated vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, and computer science. He is the Director of the Information Professional Committee, a member of the Advisory Expert Group of the China Transportation Association, member of the National Motor Vehicle Operation Safety Testing Equipment Standardization Committee and the Leading Group of the National Traffic Computer Application Network, the Vice Chairperson of the Institute of Highway Association on Computer Professional Committee, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Computer in Shaanxi Province.

Raj received his BEng and PhD degrees from City University of London in 1994 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 he worked at City University of London as a Research Fellow. In August 2000 he moved to CMG as a Telecommunications Consultant. After a few years in the industry Raj is now a Professor of Security Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security at City University of London and carries out research in the areas of privacy preserving data management, Internet of Things privacy, network intrusion detection, cloud security and identity management using blockchain. Raj has received funding from EPSRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, European Commission, Innovate UK, British Council and industry to carry out research in cyber security. He has supervised several PhDs jointly with British Telecommunications, UK in the area if data analytics for cyber security and network intrusion detection. To date Raj has graduated more than 30 PhD students in the area of Cyber Security and continues to supervise a good number of students in the area of Cloud Security, Privacy and blockchain.

He is also the Programme Director for the MSc in Project Management, Finance and Risk.

He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IET and an associate member of the charted institute of information security and a member of Technical Programme Committees of several security and privacy conferences.

Raj is the CEO of CityDefend (www.citydefend.com) a start up in the area of secure search in the encrypted Cloud. He also sits on the Editorial boards of the Journal on Wireless Networks, Elsevier Journal of Health Policy and Technology and Emerald Journal of Information Management and Computer Security.

Siraj Shaikh is a Professor in Systems Security at Swansea University (UK). His research interests lie at the intersection of cybersecurity, systems engineering and computer science addressing cyber-physical systems security for automotive and transport systems. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at CyberOwl, which is dedicated to risk analytics and security monitoring for the maritime sector.

Siraj is also currently a Visiting Professor in the Research Group on Security, Risks Management and Conflict (SEGERICO) at Nebrija University (Spain).

Previously, he has also held Royal Academy of Engineering’s Industry Fellowship hosted at HORIBA MIRA (2015-2016). His research has been funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF), DSTL, British Council and Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).

Siraj has been involved in research, development and evaluation of large-scale distributed secure systems for over twenty-two years. His doctoral and post-doctoral research involved design and verification of security and safety-critical systems.

Siraj has recently co-authored a book on Formal Methods for Software Engineering Languages, Methods, Application Domains published by Springer (2022).

Born 1969, he studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology Graz, where he graduated 1995. He received a doctor’s degree in technical sciences in 1998 with distinction.

From 1998 to 2007 Arno Eichberger was employed at MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG&Co and dealt with different aspects of active and passive safety.

Since 2007, Arno Eichberger is employed at the Institute of Automotive Engineering (University of Technology Graz) as vice-director of the Institute and head of the research area Vehicle Dynamics. His researches include development and testing of automated driving, human-machine interaction, vehicle dynamics control and suspension development. 

Since 2012 he is Associate Professor holding a venia docendi in Automotive Engineering.