The 2024 IEEE 13th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference (DDCLS’24), an annual conference jointly organized by technical committee on Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, Chinese Association of Automation, sponsored by IEEE Beijing Section and Beijing Information Science and Technology University, and locally organized by Henan University,will be held during May 17-19, 2024 in Kaifeng, Henan Province, China. The objectives of DDCLS’24 are to provide high quality research and professional interactions on the advancements of theory, technology and practical applications in the fields of data-driven control, learning, automation and optimization. The conference consists of keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, panel discussions, workshops, oral and poster sessions.

The DDCLS conference has been successfully held for 12 years. The wonderful invited presentations, fruitful research results, in-depth academic exchanges and various conference forums have forged the soaring wings of DDCLS conference. Even during the pandemic in the past several years, the organizing committee and the local organizers still had dedicated all their efforts to hold this high-quality academic event in-site with hundreds of participants. DDCLS has already been issued as the Top Academic Conferences by Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in 2022, and the DDCLS conference is also listed in the A-class conference catalog by CAA..

Kaifeng City, where this conference will be held, is located in the hinterland of North China Plain and the east of Henan Province. It is one of the well-known historical and cultural cities in China. With a history of more than 4,100 years, Kaifeng has successively experienced the Xia Dynasty, the State of Wei in the Warring States Period, the later Liang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou, Song and Jin Dynasties, so it is called “the ancient capital of the eight dynasties”, giving births to the influential "Song culture" and the China's ten famous paintings "Qingming River Map". Today, Kaifeng is not only an excellent tourist and cultural city, but also an emerging sub-central city in Henan Province, and an important wing of the integrated development of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng.