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30 September 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Automation

Automation (ISSN: 2673-4052) is pleased to announce the following 15 researchers who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Automation community.

Name: Dr. Yunjie Yang
Affiliation: Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6830-3361  
Research interests: optimal control; model predictive control; dynamic inversion control; high-dynamic and high-precision control problems in electrical servos and drives; vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV

Name: Dr. Xiaoning Shen  
Affiliation: Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150000, China  
Homepage: http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/shenxiaoning  
Research interests:
sliding mode control; nonlinear control; observation methods and their applications in power electronic systems  

Name: Dr. Jie Hou
Affiliation: School of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
Homepage: https://faculty.cqupt.edu.cn/houjie/zh_CN/index.htm  
Research interests: control science and engineering; data-driven identification and modeling of complex systems; theory and application of state estimation

Name: Dr. Jianzhao Wu
Affiliation: College of Marine Equipment and Mechanical Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
Homepage: https://mee.jmu.edu.cn/info/1064/6152.htm   
Research interests: intelligent diagnosis; energy efficiency optimization; laser manufacturing systems; machine learning; deep learning

Name: Dr. Mingze Zhang
Affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Homepage: https://ee.hrbust.edu.cn/2024/0513/c1110a92949/page.htm
Research interests: dispatch automation of power systems; frequency security analysis and operation control for new power systems; artificial intelligence in power system scheduling and control

Name: Dr. Dengfeng Yang
Affiliation: School of Science, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China
Homepage: https://lxy.qut.edu.cn/info/1340/3846.htm
Research interests: space satellites and control; mechanism analysis and monitoring; stability control; early warning

Name: Dr. Xingru Qu
Affiliation: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian 116600, China
Research interests: autonomous marine vehicles (underwater and surface); guidance and control; coordination

Name: Dr. Changning Liu
Affiliation: School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Homepage: https://auto.ujs.edu.cn/info/1273/27297.htm
Research interests: vibration control; acoustics and vibration; energy harvesting; computational methods; vehicle engineering; structural design and dynamic analysis; nonlinear vibrations; mechanical impedance; inerters; acoustic metamaterial

Name: Dr. Hakki Erhan Sevil
Affiliation: Department of Intelligent Systems & Robotics, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/a/uwf.edu/hsevil/
Research interests: robotics; intelligent systems; autonomous navigation, path planning for mobile robots; computer vision; multi-agent systems; computational methods; data-driven detection and estimation

Name: Dr. Giovanni Battista Gaggero  
Affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture—DITEN, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 11A, 16145 Genoa, Italy  
Homepage: https://rubrica.unige.it/personale/VktGW1tt  
Research interests: cybersecurity; industrial control systems; smart grid

Name: Dr. Allahyar Montazeri
Affiliation: School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK  
Homepage: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/engineering/about/people/allahyar-montazeri
Research interests: robotics and autonomous systems; cyber-physical systems; robotics for environmental monitoring; robotics for extreme environments; unmanned aerial vehicles; cooperative navigation and control; multi-agent systems; active noise and vibration control systems; system identification; adaptive control and signal processing

Name: Dr. Sachin Kumar
Affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida 201310, India
Homepage: http://bit.ly/3DEA5uJ
Research interests: 5G; biomedicine; IoT; MIMO; wearable technology

Name: Dr. Anqing Duan
Affiliation: Robotics Department, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Homepage: https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/anqing-duan/
Research interests: learning by demonstration; imitation
learning; reinforcement learning; optimization/learning-based control; dynamics and motion control; motion and trajectory planning; medical and rehabilitation robotics; human–robot interaction and collaboration

Name: Dr. Alessandro Niccolai
Affiliation: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Homepage: https://onlineservices.polimi.it/manifesti/manifesti/controller/ricerche/RicercaPerDocentiPublic.do?evn_PRODOTTI=evento&lang=IT&k_doc=393954
Research interests: evolutionary optimization; artificial neural networks; forecasting; genetic algorithms; particle swarm optimization

Name: Dr. Yanyan Yin
Affiliation: School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Homepage: https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/yanyan-yin-2085ae1c/
Research interests: power system protection and automation; control engineering

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