2015年4月20日，加拿大学者Simon X.Yang应邀来到我院做学术交流。20日上午9点，杨教授与我院机械电子工程、机械设计及理论学科的部分专家和博士现场进行了座谈和交流，该专业的部分研究生也参加了学术交流会。杨教授首先介绍了加拿大奎尔夫大学的基本情况，并对他所在的实验室的科学研究情况、研究领域和主要成果进行了介绍，还现场回答了许多师生的提问，尤其是对目前加拿大的留学政策做了解读。下午4点，杨教授在学校四教报告厅举行了一场精彩的学术报告会，主题 是“Biologically Inspired Neural Network Framework”，报告会的内容学术性强，激发现场师生的强烈兴趣。

Abstract: Research on biologically inspired intelligent systems has made significant progress in both understanding the biological systems and developing bionic engineering applications to various robotic and control systems. In this talk, I will start with a very brief introduction to some biologically inspired intelligent systems approaches. Then several applications of intelligent systems to biological systems and bio-inspired systems will be briefly mentioned. After that, I will focus on our current research on bio-inspired intelligent systems with applications to various robotics systems and other engineering systems, including intelligent robotic e-noses for real-time monitoring and control of livestock odors, real-time path planning, tracking and control of autonomous mobile robots, surface and underwater robots; intelligent tomato-harvesting robotic systems, intelligent behavior-based mobile robotic systems for delivery, and intelligent cooperation and coordination of multi-robot systems.