General Chair

Prof. Xipeng Qiu
Fudan University, China

Xipeng Qiu is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Fudan University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Fudan University. His research interests include natural language processing and deep learning. He has published more than 60 top journal/conference papers (e.g., TACL, TKDE, T-ALS, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI, ICCV). He also leads the development of [GitHub] [Google Code] and FastNLP [GitHub].

General Co-Chair

Prof. Wanli Ouyang
Shanghai AI Laboratory, China

Wanli Ouyang received the PhD degree in the Department of Electronic Engineering with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is now a professor with Shanghai AI Lab. His research interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, and AI for Science. Before that, he was an Associate Professor with The University of Sydney. He served as the associate editor of IJCV and PR, the senior area chair of CVPR, and the guest editor of TPAMI.

Program Committee Chair

Prof. Feng Zhao
University of Science and Technology of China, China

Feng Zhao is a professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, foundation model, autonomous driving, machine learning, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and brain-inspired vision. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 papers in referred international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions (e.g., TFS, TNNLS, TMM, TCSVT, TGRS, TCAS-I), Pattern Recognition, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, AAAI, ACM MM, and EMNLP. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award in ICIDM 2018, SenseTime Scholar 2019, Innovation Scholar 2019, Champion of IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 3D AI Challenge, Runner-up of CVPR 2021 Streaming Perception Challenge, and Champions of ICCV 2023 Continual Test-time Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation Challenge and Multitask Learning for Robustness Challenge. He was the Program Committee Chair of the International Conference on AI-Generated Content (AIGC) 2023, and the Area Chairs of ACM MM 2023 and 2024. As a key researcher, Co-PI, or PI, he has participated in and conducted research projects with a total funding of 100 million.

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Assoc. Prof. Ping Luo
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Ping Luo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong, an Associate Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU IDS), and a Deputy Director of the Joint Research Lab of HKU and Shanghai AI Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoou Tang (founder of SenseTime) and Prof. Xiaogang Wang. Before joining HKU in 2019, he was a Research Director in SenseTime. He has published 100+ papers in international conferences and journals such as TPAMI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and CVPR, with over 50,000 citations on Google Scholar. He was awarded the 2015 AAAI Easily Accessible Paper, nominated for the 2022 Computational Visual Media Journal's Best Paper of the Year, won the 2022 ACL Outstanding Paper, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Outstanding Papers, and was a candidate for the Best Paper at ICCV’23. He was recognized as one of the innovators under 35 in the Asia-Pacific region by the MIT Technology Review (MIT TR35) in 2020. He has mentored 30 Ph.D. students, many of whom have received significant awards such as the Nvidia Fellowship, Baidu Fellowship, WAIC Yunfan Award, etc.

Dr. Qibin Zhao
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan

Qibin Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2009.,He was a Research Scientist with RIKEN Brain Science Institute from 2009 to 2017. He joined RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project as a unit leader from 2017 to 2019, and is currently a Team Leader of tensor learning team. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include machine learning, tensor factorization and tensor networks, and brain signal processing. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific papers and coauthored two monographs on tensor networks. He serves as an Area Chair of top-tier ML Conferences of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and ACML, and an Action Editor for Neural Networks and Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Prof. Duoqian Miao
Tongji University, China

Duoqian Miao is currently a Professor and a Ph.D. Tutor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He serves as the Vice President of the International Rough Set Society, the Executive Manager for the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Chair of the CAAI Granular Computing Knowledge Discovery Technical Committee, a Distinguished Member of the Chinese Computer Federation (CCF), the Vice President for the Shanghai Computer Federation, and the Vice President for the Shanghai Association for Artificial Intelligence. He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and an Editor of the Journal of Computer Research and Development (in Chinese).

Prof. Junchi Yan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Junchi Yan (Senior Member, IEEE) was a Senior Research Staff Member at IBM Research, Beijing, China, where he started his career in April 2011. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include machine learning and computer vision.,Dr. Yan received the ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award and the China Computer Federation Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on graph matching. He regularly serves as a Senior PC/Area Chair for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) and an Associate Editor for the Pattern Recognition journal.

Prof. Noor Zaman Jhanjhi
Taylor's University, Malaysia

Professor Dr. Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, often referred to as N.Z. Jhanjhi, holds the esteemed position of Professor in Computer Science with specializations in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as the Program Director for Postgraduate Research Degree Programmes in Computer Science and Director of the Center for Smart Society (CSS5) at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% research scientists for consecutive years in 2022 and 2023, he is esteemed as one of Malaysia's top three computer science researchers. Notably, he was honoured as an Outstanding Faculty Member by MDEC Malaysia in 2022.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs

Asst. Prof. Jingjing Deng
Durham University, UK

Jingjing Deng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. His research interests are computational and mathematical intelligence, non-linear analysis and computing, and the applications in biomedical and physical sciences. He is actively seeking collaborative opportunities motivated by industrial practices and theoretical principles across disciplines.

Asst. Prof. Suhang Wang
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Suhang Wang is an assistant professor with College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University - University Park. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science from Arizona State University - Tempe in 2018. His research interests are trustworthy machine learning, deep generative models and graph mining. He has published 120+ papers in top-tier data mining and machine learning conferences and journals, which garnered 18,200+ Google Scholar citations with H-index 57. He is recognized as Global Top Chinese Young Scholars in Artificial Intelligence in 2022 by Baidu Talent Program, and AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining by Aminer in 2023 and 2024. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing and TKDD.

Publicity Chairs

Prof. Tahir Cetin Akinci
University of California Riverside & Istanbul Technical University

Prof. Tahir Cetin Akinci completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000. He earned his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2015 to 2024, Dr. Akıncı served as a professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He is currently a researcher at the University of California Riverside (UCR). His research interests include artificial neural networks, deep learning, machine learning, cognitive systems, signal processing, and data analysis. As an IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Akinci was honored with the International Young Scientist Excellence Award and the Best Researcher Award in 2022 for his outstanding contributions to research.

Prof. Zhiquan Liu
Jinan University, China

Zhiquan Liu received the BS degree from the School of Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2012, and the PhD degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2017. He is currently a professor with the College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. His current research focuses on trust management, privacy preservation, and artificial intelligence in vehicular networks and UAV networks.

Assoc. Prof. Seuk Wai Phoong
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Dr. Seuk Wai PHOONG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She is a member of the Malaysian Mathematical Science Society (PERSAMA). Her research interests include applied statistics, econometrics, time series analysis, bibliometric analysis, and education. She has led 6 research projects out of 18 research grants. She has published papers in various WoS and Scopus journals, such as Sage Open, Artificial Intelligence Review, Humanities and Social Science, Mathematics, International Journal of Mobile Communications, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energies, Symmetry, PLOS One, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, etc. She is also an academic editor for several journals, including PLOS One, Asian Journal of Business and Accounting, Computer Vision Studies, and Asian Journal of Managerial Science.

Dr. Hui Liu
University of Bremen, Germany

Hui Liu, Dr.-Ing. is co-responsible for three German multipartner projects. He developed the first smart knee bandage that recognizes users’ activities in real-time, proposed an interpretable underlying architecture for human activity recognition (Motion Units), and released two biomedical big datasets as well as two time-series processing code banks. He received the following third-party funding and awards: the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Award (2018), the CAMPUSiDEEN Public Choice Award (2022), the YERUN Research Mobility Award (2022/2023), and the Sensors Outstanding Reviewer (2023).

Local Chairs

Prof. Gang Wang
Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Gang Wang is currently a Professor in the School of Automation at Beijing Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang's research interests include data-driven control and world model reinforcement learning for quadrotors. He has authored 70 papers in top IEEE Transactions such as IEEE TIT/TAC/TSP, in addition to 60 conference papers at venues including NeurIPS, AISTATS, CDC, and ICRA. Dr. Wang has received several awards, including the IEEE SPS Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award in 2023, FITEE Best Paper Award in 2021, and EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Award in 2017. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, as well as the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems.

Assoc. Prof. Tianbo Wang
Beihang University, China

Tianbo Wang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beihang University. He is currently an associate professor with the School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University. He has participated in several National Natural Science Foundations and other research projects as a Contributor. His research interests include network and information security, intrusion detection technology, system security. and information countermeasure. He has published a number of papers, such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics (TIFS)，IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), lEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) and ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) . He also served as TPC member for some International Conferences, such as IJCNN 2024, ISPA 2023/2019, INFOCOM(AidTSP)2023, UIC 2023 and TrustCom 2023/2022.

Program Committees (Alphabetize by Last Name)
Dr. Joseph Arul, Saint Francis University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Asst. Prof. Muhammad Azhar, Hong kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Dr. Lu Bai, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Dr. Quentin Bammey, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France
Prof. Kamel Barkaoui, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
Dr. Eng. Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France
Dr. Sabine Bohlmann, TU Clausthal, Germany
Asst. Prof. Qi Cao, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Deruo Cheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Huaming Chen, The University of Sydney, Australia
Asst. Prof. Sinan Chen, Kobe University, Japan
Prof. Michal Choras, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology (PBS), Poland
Dr. Nisar Ahmed Dahri, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Haoyu Dong, Microsoft Research
Prof. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Assoc. Prof. A.M. Elsawah, Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China
Assoc. Prof. Bingwen Feng, Jinan University, China
Dr. Cristiano Hora de Oliveira Fontes, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Dr. Felix Fu, Cranfield University, UK
Prof. Longxiang Gao, Qilu University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Jingjing Guo, Xidian University, China
Dr. Kailash Hambarde, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dr. Yumeng Hou, EPFL, Switzerland
Dr. Tzung-Chien Hsieh, University of Bonn, Germany
Asst. Prof. Gang Huang, Zhejiang University
Asst. Prof. Zhen Hua, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Dr. Teo Tee Hui, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Prof. Xiyuan Hu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Mehrdad Jalali, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Prof. Mohammad Khishe, Imam Khomeini Marine Science University, Iran
Dr. Weibin Kou, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong SAR, China
Asst. Prof. Wai Kit Leong, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Dr. Daochang Liu, The University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Han Liu, Xi'an University of Technology, China
Dr. Haiyang Liu, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Meiling Lin, Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy ofSciences, China
Asst. Prof. Baiyang Li, Nanjing University, China
Prof. Hongjun Li , Beijing Forestry University, China
Asst. Prof. Jinfeng Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Research Asst. Prof. Tong Li, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Wenbin Li, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Dr. Dianxin Luan, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Jing-Jia Luo, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Xinchen Lyu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr. Abhilash Puthanveettil Madathil, The University of Strathclyde, UK
Asst. Prof. Yuyi Mao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Prof. Jian Ma, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Asst. Prof. Saef Ullah Miah, American International University Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Dr. Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China
Prof. Zhonghong Ou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Dr. Moritz Platt, King’s College London, UK
Assoc. Prof. Jean-Philippe Prost, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Dr. Farhad Rezazadeh, Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain
Dr. Tao Ruan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dr. Vinicius Luiz Santos Silva, Imperial College London, UK
Prof. Ts. Dr. Ong Thian Song, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Zhigang Song, Institute of Semiconductors , Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Lavanya Srinivasan, University of West London, UK
Dr. Chengzhe Sun, University at Buffalo, USA
Prof. Jinchuan Tang, Guizhou University, China
Assoc. Prof. Victor Telnov, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia
Prof. Dongping Tian, Kashi University, China
Dr. Chong Wang, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Prof. Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr. Qinyi Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Shuliang Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Robert Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Prof. Peng Wu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Liangxu Xie, Jiangsu University of Technology, China
Prof. Xiang Xie, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Yufei Xie, Wayve Technologies Ltd, USA
Dr. Akihiro Yamaguchi, System AI Lab., Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Jielong Yang, Jiangnan University, China
Assoc. Prof. Ziyi Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Yu Yao, Northeastern University, China
Asst. Prof. Irfan Yousuf, University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan
Dr. Zheng Yuan, King’s College London & University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Mohd Najwadi Yusoff, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Qiao Yu, Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany
Prof. Elena Zaitseva, University of Zilina, Slovensko
Assoc. Prof. Jie Zeng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Haoxi Zhang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
Dr. Jiaming Zhang, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr. Li Lyna Zhang, Microsoft Research Aisa
Dr. Lijun Zhang, University of Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Songyang Zhang, Shanghai AI Laboratory, China
Assoc. Prof. Wanqian Zhang, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Xiangtao Zheng, Fuzhou University, China
Prof. Xiaoping Zhou, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China