 | Prof. Zilong ZhaoBeihang University, China Prof.Zi-Long Zhao obtained his doctoral degree in 2016 from Tsinghua University (China). Since 2021, he has been a full Professor at Beihang University (China). He is elected as a high-level young talent of China (2020), an ARC DECRA fellow (2019), an innovative and entrepreneurial talent of Jiangsu Province (2024), and a young top talent of Beihang University (2022). He is an expert of the Chinese Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Australian Research Council, and the Jiangsu Association of Science and Technology. He is an editorial advisory board member of Engineering Fracture Mechanics. His research interests include solid mechanics, biomechanics, structural topology optimization, and aircraft design. By 2025, he has published more than 60 papers in internationally prestigious SCI journals. |
 | Prof. Gang ZhangHarbin Institute of Technology, China Gang Zhang has been a Full Professor at the Research Center of Satellite Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology since 2019. He received the B.S. degree from the School of Mathematics at Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2012. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University from 2009 to 2010.His research areas are orbit dynamics and control, trajectory optimization, and uncertainty analysis. He has published more than 50 journal papers as the first/corresponding author, including 15 papers in JGCD and IEEE TAES. He received the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in Aerospace Engineering, and several Science and Technology Awards in provincial and ministerial level. He won the Champion of the 10th China Trajectory Optimization Competition as the Team Leader. Now He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and the editorial board of several international journals. He participated in several satellite missions, including the world’s first microsatellite (Longjiang-2) to complete Earth-to-Moon transfer, near-moon braking, and circumlunar flight. |