 | Prof. Jianqiang LiShenzhen University, ChinaProfessor, Doctoral Supervisor, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars recipient, IET Fellow, Executive Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology, Associate Dean of the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Shenzhen University, Director of the Institute of Network and Information Security, Chief Scientist of a National Key R&D Program of China, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Big Data Analysis, recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Head of the Guangdong Provincial Artificial Intelligence Teaching Team. In 2016, he was selected for Shenzhen University’s “Liyuan Outstanding Youth” cultivation program.He received his Bachelor of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from South China University of Technology in 2003 and 2008, respectively. In August 2008, he joined Shenzhen University as a faculty member. For many years, he has been engaged in research on artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, and mobile healthcare. He has completed and led five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including one Distinguished Young Scholars project, one Key Project, two General Projects, and one Young Scientists Project. He has published over 100 papers, including more than 72 papers in the past five years, with over 70 SCI-indexed papers and more than 50 papers in CAS Tier 1 journals. He has published over 50 papers in IEEE journals such as Science Advances, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TII, IEEE TASE, IEEE ToN, IEEE TMC, and IEEE TVT (including one paper in Science Advances and over 50 in IEEE Transactions). Among these, nine papers are ESI Highly Cited Papers, and two are ESI Hot Papers. He holds more than 50 national patents and eight software copyrights. Some of his patents have been licensed to companies such as ZTE Corporation. As the principal investigator, he received the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize) and the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize). He has also been honored with the National Teaching Achievement Award (Second Prize) and has received the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (First Prize) on four occasions. |
 | Prof. Min LiuHunan University, ChinaProf. Min Liu is a second-level professor at Hunan University and serves as the Party Secretary of the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is a recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar founded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education, and the chief scientist of National Key Research and Development Program. He is also a core member of an NSFC innovative research group. He received the bachelor’s degree from Peking university and the Ph.D. degree from the university of California, Riverside, USA. He currently is the vice president of Hunan Association of Automation, the director of China Machinery Industry Federation Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Visual Inspection and Control Technology, and the deputy director of the Youth Working Committee of China Society of Image and Graphics. He has led two National Key Research and Development Programs, one NFSC key project, and has received five national- or ministerial/provincial-level scientific and technological awards. |
| Prof. Xiaochun CaoSun Yat-sen University, ChinaDr. Xiaochun Cao is the Dean of School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests include: artificial intelligence especially computer vision, and content analysis in cyber space, etc. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees both in computer science from Beihang University (BUAA), China, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Central Florida, USA, with his dissertation nominated for the university level Outstanding Dissertation Award. After graduation, he spent about three years at ObjectVideo Inc. as a Research Scientist. Before joining SYSU, he was a professor at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has authored and coauthored over 300 journal and conference papers. In 2004 and 2010, he was the recipients of the Piero Zamperoni best student paper award at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Dr. Cao was the recipients of Outstanding Young Scientists Fund and Excellent Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China, in 2020 and 2014, respectively. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Acta Electronica Sinica. He was on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. |
| Prof. Biao LuoCentral South University, ChinaBiao Luo, IEEE Senior Member, received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2014. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China. Before joining CSU, he was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor with the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from 2014 to 2018. He published 100+ papers, including top journals and conferences IEEE TPAMI, Automatica, AAAI, etc. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the Artificial Intelligence Review, and the Neurocomputing. He is the Vice-Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning Technical Committee, Chinese Association of Automation. His current research interests include intelligent control, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and decision-making. |
