Dr. Youmin Zhang (IEEE Fellow, CSME Fellow)

 Concordia University, Canada

BIO: Dr. Youmin Zhang is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University, Canada. His research interests include monitoring, diagnosis, and physical fault/cyber-attack tolerant/resilient control, as well as the guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned systems (air, space, land, marine, and autonomous vehicles, etc.) and smart grids. These research areas have applications in solving safety and security issues of forest fires, smart grids, and smart cities within the framework of cyber-physical systems by combining remote sensing and image processing techniques. He has published 10 books and over 600 journal and conference papers, which have been cited up to 31,348 times on Google Scholar, with the h-index of 87, and i10-index of 431 currently. His publications have been ranked #1 worldwide in "Aircraft Systems" and "Fault Tolerance" (lifetime) and #2 worldwide in "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (lifetime), making him the only contributor from Canada in that category, according to the recent ranking by ScholarGPS. He has also been continuously recognized in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" by Stanford University's ranking since its launch in 2021.
Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and CSME (Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering), and served as the President of the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems from 2019 to 2022. He has held roles as (Deputy) Editor-in-Chief and (Advisory) Editorial Board Member for more than 20 journals. Additionally, he has served as (Honorary) General Chair and Program Chair for several conferences related to autonomous/unmanned systems, renewable energies, and smart cities. More detailed information can be found at http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ymzhang/.