Presenter

Taogang Hou is an associate professor at the School of Electronic Information Engineering of Beijing Jiaotong University and the deputy secretary of the Youth League Branch. He has been selected for the China Association for Science and Technology's Young Talent Support Program (funded by the Association for Science and Technology). His main research field is intelligent robots. He serves as a member of the Special Committee on Intelligent Robots of the Chinese Computer Society (CCF), a member of the Special Committee on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and a member of the Medical Engineering and Medical Culture Association (CHCA) of the Chinese Medical and Health Culture Association. He has been awarded several national and provincial-level research grants, including the Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the sub-project of the JKW Defense Science and Technology Innovation Special Zone, the General Project of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and the Face-to-Face Funding of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He was an exchange student at the University of Tsukuba with full scholarships. As a freshman, he was granted the qualification for direct enrollment to graduate school (winner of the First Prize of the Feng Ru Cup). During his doctoral studies, he was awarded the title of "Top Ten Outstanding Doctoral Students" (the highest honor for doctoral students), the "Innovation Role Model Star of the Year", the "May 4th Medal", the "Innovation Award of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology", the "Baosteel Education Award Outstanding Student Award", the First Prize of the Outstanding Academic Paper Award of the High-Berth Class, and the Outstanding Academic Award of the High-Level Institute of Science and Technology. He has published over twenty papers, and the research achievements have been published in top journals such as "Mechanical and Aerospace Systems Theory" and top conferences such as "ICRA". The achievements have been reported by media such as IEEE Spectrum, China Youth Daily, the homepage of the Graduate School, etc. He is the founder of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Robotics Association. He has applied for 11 patents for the robots he designed, and one of the robots has been permanently reserved and exhibited by Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His innovative achievements have entered the National Postdoctoral Innovation Competition and won the ninth "Dong Sheng Cup" International Entrepreneurship Competition - the Most Innovative Award. He guided students to win several awards, including the Gold Award of the National Challenge Cup Entrepreneurship Competition, the First Prize of the 17th "Challenge Cup" National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, and many others. He is the founder of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Robotics Association. He has applied for 11 patents for the robots he designed, and one of the robots has been permanently reserved and exhibited by Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His innovative achievements have entered the National Postdoctoral Innovation Competition and won the ninth "Dong Sheng Cup" International Entrepreneurship Competition - the Most Innovative Award. He guided students to win several awards, including the Gold Award of the National Challenge Cup Entrepreneurship Competition, the First Prize of the 17th "Challenge Cup" National College Students.