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Thursday, 6 August 2026

Time: 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Meeting Room: Main Hall
Speaker: Prof. Xie Lihua
Prof. Lihua Xie

Title: Future Embodied AI

Abstract: This plenary session introduces the conference theme through a keynote focused on future embodied AI, framing the relationship between embodied perception, decision-making, interaction, and deployable robotic systems.

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Prof. Lihua Xie

Lihua Xie is President's Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also affiliated with the university's robotics and control research activities.

His work spans adaptive control, estimation, signal processing, networked systems, machine learning, and autonomous and unmanned systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Academy of Engineering Singapore, and the Singapore National Academy of Science.

He has held multiple major editorial and leadership roles across control and systems journals and conferences, making him a strong fit for a plenary focused on future embodied AI and deployable intelligent systems.

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Time: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Meeting Room: Main Hall
Speaker: THU speaker to be announced
THU

Title: To be announced

Abstract: The second plenary session is reserved in the current agenda for a keynote speaker from THU. The final title, abstract, and speaker biography can be inserted here once they are confirmed.

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Speaker To Be Announced

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