Speakers
kEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Xindong Wu
IEEE/AAAS Fellow
Hefei University of Technology, China
Bio-sketch: Xindong Wu is Director and Professor of the Key Laboratory
of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data (the Ministry of Education of
China), Hefei University of Technology, China. He is also a Senior
Research Scientist at Zhejiang Lab, China. His research interests
include big data analytics, data mining and knowledge engineering. He
received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from
the Hefei University of Technology, China, and his Ph.D. degree in
Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, Britain. He is
a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of
IEEE and the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Dr. Wu is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and the Editor in-Chief of Knowledge
and Information Systems (KAIS, by Springer). He was the Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
between 2005 and 2008 and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on
Knowledge Discovery from Data Engineering between 2017 and 2020. He
served as a program committee chair/co-chair for ICDM 2003 (the 3rd IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining), KDD 2007 (the 13th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), CIKM
2010 (the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management),
and ICBK 2017 (the 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge).
One of his completed projects is Knowledge Engineering With Big Data
(BigKE), which was a 54-month, 45-million RMB, 15-institution national
grand project, as described in detail at
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7948800 .
Prof.
chao shen
IEEE Fellow
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Bio-sketch: Prof. Chao Shen (IEEE Fellow) is a Chair Professor
at Xi'an Jiaotong University and a Distinguished Professor under
the Ministry of Education's Changjiang Scholars Program. He has
received honors such as the XPLORER Prize, Damo Academy Young
Fellow, and NSFC Excellent Young Scientist. He leads an NSFC
Innovation Research Group (Type B), a Ministry of Education
Innovation Team, and an MOE Engineering Research Center. He also
serves as Chief Scientist of National Key R&D and Basic
Strengthening Programs, and as a panel expert for the “Advanced
Computing and Emerging Software” program. He is also an IEEE
Fellow.
His research focuses on trustworthy AI, AI security, and
controllable intelligent systems. He has received 13 Best Paper
Awards and led teams to win 3 First Prizes in provincial and
ministerial science and technology (S&T) Awards. He has
contributed to six national/international standards and three
policy proposals adopted by top government agencies. Prof. Shen
serves on the editorial boards of Science China: Information
Sciences and the Journal of Software, as well as several IEEE
journals, and holds leadership roles in IEEE SMC&CS Xi'an, ACM
SIGSAC China, CAAI, and CICC.
Prof. Yingcai Wu
Dean, Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Tenured Professor
Zhejiang University, China
Bio-sketch: Yingcai Wu is a Professor at the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. He now serves as a deputy director of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010. Prior to his current role, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis (2010-2012), a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (2012-2015), and a ZJU100 Young Professor at Zhejiang University (2015-2020). His research delves into sports science, social media analysis, and urban computing. He has a publication record with over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and conferences such as IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG, and ACM SIGCHI. His research excellence is underscored by five Honorable Mention Awards from IEEE VIS and two from IEEE Pacific Visualization. He plays an active role in the academic community, currently serving on the Area Curation Committee for IEEE VIS and Editorial Board of IEEE Transactionns on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and has held significant positions such as area paper co-chair for IEEE VIS 2022-2023 and paper co-chair for IEEE Pacific Visualization 2017.
Prof. Mingbo Zhao
Donghua University, China
Bio-sketch: Mingbo Zhao received the Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in February 2013. He joined the School of Information Science and Technology at Donghua University in 2026, where he was appointed as a Full Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the Automation program. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for several SCI-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is also an Associate Editor of the SCI journal International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and a Domain Editorial Board Member of the Chinese core journal Computer Engineering. He has served as a Senior Program Committee Member of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022–2025) and as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia (2021–2023), and has also served on the program committees of multiple international conferences and as a reviewer for numerous leading journals. His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on multimodal information retrieval, fault diagnosis, and medical diagnosis. Over the past five years, he has published more than 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences in artificial intelligence, authored two book chapters, obtained one U.S. invention patent and five Chinese invention patents, and led three research projects, including a General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, while also participating as a key member in a National Major Science and Technology Project of China. His publications have received more than 4, 800 citations on Google Scholar, indicating significant academic impact both nationally and internationally.
Invited SPEAKERS
Assoc. Prof. Licheng Liu
Hunan University, China
Bio-sketch: Licheng Liu received his Ph.D. from the University of Macau
under the supervision of Professor C. L. Philip Chen, Fellow of the
European Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Russian Academy of
Engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor, Yuelu Scholar, and
Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,
Hunan University. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of the
Hunan Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. He also serves as a standing
director of the Hunan Digital Medicine Society, a committee member of
the Youth Working Committee of the Hunan Association for Artificial
Intelligence, and an expert of the Expert Committee of the National
New-Generation Autonomous Secure Computing System Industrial Cluster.
Dr. Liu has published more than 50 papers in top international journals
and conferences including IEEE TIP, TNNLS, TCYB, TCSVT, TCI, TSMC:
Systems, TGRS and TAI, among which 26 are IEEE/ACM Transactions papers.
As the first or corresponding author, he has authored 21 full-length
IEEE/ACM Transactions papers, 3 of which are ESI Highly Cited Papers.
His Google Scholar citations exceed 1350 with an H-index of 17. He acts
as an editorial board member for journals such as Machine Learning
Research and China Computer Science Review, as well as a Guest Editor
for Electronics.
He has presided over and completed two National Natural Science
Foundation of China projects (one General Program and one Youth
Program), two Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects (one
Outstanding Youth Fund and one Youth Fund), and one Fundamental Research
Funds for the Central Universities. He has participated in one National
Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology and one major
"Open Bidding for Key R&D Tasks" project of Changsha City.
His major awards include: the Macao Postgraduate Science and Technology
Research Award awarded by the Macao Science and Technology Development
Fund (2016); the title of Yuelu Scholar of Hunan University (2018); the
First-Class Prize of Hunan Provincial Higher Education Teaching
Achievement Award (2022); the Second-Class National Teaching Achievement
Award (2023); the Excellent Master’s Thesis Supervisor of Hunan Province
(2024); and the Third-Class Natural Science Award of the Chinese
Association of Automation (ranked first, 2024).