Professor S. Joe Qin speaks at IFAC World Congress 2020 Germany

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Professor S. Joe Qin has been invited from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) to speak at IFAC 2020 Germany, the 21st IFAC World Congress, 11-17 July 2020.

Professor Qin is among the 11 plenary/semi-plenary speakers of renowned scholars worldwide, and he is the only speaker from Hong Kong as well as the Greater China. This triennial world congress goes virtual this year due to the COVID-19.

In the plenary session on 14 July 2020, Professor Qin will share his insights on the development of an integrated framework of systems, data and industrial intelligence towards Industry 4.0, with the assistance of dynamic data analytics, automated knowledge extraction and visualization tools. Abstract of Prof Qin’s presentation can be obtained here.

The International Federation of Automatic Control was founded in September 1957. The multinational federation is concerned with automatic control and its representation in the fields of engineering, science and the impact of control technology on society. Professor Qin is one of the few IFAC Fellows from CityU.