From November 1st to 2nd, 2024, the IEEE/CAA JAS 10th Anniversary Symposium on "Crowdsensing and Autonomous Control" was held in Qingdao. Dozens of experts and scholars from home and abroad engaged in high-level academic exchanges focusing on the international theoretical frontiers and engineering applications in the field of artificial intelligence and autonomous control.

The symposium was hosted by the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS) and organized by Shandong University of Science and Technology. Renowned experts and scholars from around the world, including Professor Chai Tianyou of Northeastern University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor Brian Anderson of the Australian National University, academician of the Australian Academy of Science; Professor Fu Minyue of Southern University of Science and Technology, IFAC/IEEE Fellow; Professor Wang Long of Peking University; and Professor Zhou Donghua, head of the Control Science and Engineering discipline at Shandong University of Science and Technology, were invited to participate and deliver academic reports on the theme of "Crowdsensing and Autonomous Control."

Professor Zheng Nanning, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, president of the Chinese Association of Automation, and professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University; Professor Gui Weihua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, vice president of the Chinese Association of Automation, and professor at Central South University; Professor Han Qinglong, academician of the Academia Europaea, and editor-in-chief of IEEE/CAA JAS; and Dong Hairong, vice president of Shandong University of Science and Technology, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was hosted by Zhang Huanshui, dean of the School of Electrical and Automation Engineering.

In her speech at the opening ceremony, Dong Hairong congratulated the symposium on its successful hosting and welcomed all the experts who attended. She introduced the recent developments of Shandong University of Science and Technology and expressed her hope that the experts and scholars would engage in in-depth exchanges, reach consensus, and pool their efforts through the symposium to promote the development of the field of crowdsensing and autonomous control and jointly contribute their wisdom to the high-quality development of China's automation discipline.