Prof. Tielin Shi

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Shi Tielin is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education. He has been awarded the First Prize of Natural Science by the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress (Theory) by the State Education Commission, the Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress (Application) by the State Education Commission, the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress by the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the Third Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress by the State, the China Youth Science and Technology Prize, and the first batch of national candidates for the "Project of Hundred Million Talents in the New Century", and so on. He has undertaken or presided over dozens of scientific research projects, including the National 973 Project, the National 863 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Research Program Cultivation Project, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Faceted Project. He co-authored the first monograph on intelligent diagnostic reasoning in China, “Knowledge-based Diagnostic Reasoning”, which won the second prize of National Excellent Science and Technology Book. He has published more than 300 academic papers, including more than 150 SCI-indexed papers, and has applied for and been authorized more than 90 national invention patents.

Prof. Ting-Chung Poon(IEEE/IOP/OSA/SPIE Fellow)

Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA

Ting-Chung Poon is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, USA. His current research interests include Information Optics and Optical Scanning Holography (OSH). He is Fellow of Optica, the SPIE, the IoP, and a life Fellow of the IEEE. In 2016, he received SPIE’s Dennis Gabor Award. He is the recipient of the 2024 Optica’s Emmett N. Leith Medal.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China

James Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is serving / served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and on the Editorial Board of Machine Learning. He is also serving as Senior Area Chairs of major machine learning / AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and as Area Chairs of conferences including AAAI and ECML. He is on the IJCAI Board of Trustees. He is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for "outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI between 2009 and 2019". Prof Kwok is the IJCAI-2025 Program Chair.

Prof. Anand Asundi

d'Optron Pte Ltd, Singapore

Anand Asundi (安顺泰) has over 40 years of experience in the field of Optical Engineering/Metrology, Photomechanics and Optical NDT. He got his PhD from Stony Brook University and was a research fellow at Virginia Tech. He was Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) (1983-1996) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (1996-2019). He has published over 450 SCI indexed papers with over 15,000 citations and H-Index of 55. He has also chaired and organized numerous international conferences held in Asia, USA and Europe, notably the icOPEN series which he initiated. He was Editor of Optics and Lasers in Engineering for over 20 years and is Fellow of SPIE and was on their board for two years. He is the recipient of the SPIE, Chandra Vikram award for Optical Metrology in 2024. He was founding Director of the Centre for Optical and Laser Engineering, NTU and founding Chairman of Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore. He is currently founding director and CEO of d’Optron Pte Ltd, one of three companies that he founded.

Prof. Bo Du

Wuhan University, China

Bo Du received the Ph.D. degree from State Key Lab of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 2010.
He is currently a Hongyi Chair Professor with the School of Computer Science and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University. He is also the director of the National Multimedia Software Engineering Technology Research Center, dean of the School of Computer Science at Wuhan University. His major research interests spread across subareas in artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, deep learning, image processing, medical AI and data science. His research results have expounded in 500+ publications at prestigious journals and proceedings in prominent conferences, such as IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, TMI, TNNLS, TCYB, TGRS, IJCV, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and KDD, etc. Fourty-five of them are ESI hot papers or highly cited papers.
He is currently a senior member of IEEE. He serves as associate editor for Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing and Neural Processing Letters. He also serves as a reviewer of 20 Science Citation Index (SCI) magazines including IEEE TPAMI, TCYB, TGRS, TIP, JSTARS, and GRSL. He regularly serves as senior PC member of IJCAI and AAAI. He served as area chair for ICPR.
His influence spans various IEEE domains. His citation record is impressive: 28773 citations, h-index: 86 (as of 03/11/2024). He won the Highly Cited Researcher (2019-2024) by the Web of Science Group. He won IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Transactions Prize Paper Award. He won the IJCAI (International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence) Distinguished Paper Prize, IEEE Data Fusion Contest Champion, and IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing Best Paper Award.

 

Prof. Hai-Tao Zhang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Prof. Hai-Tao Zhang is the Deputy Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), an Endowed Chair Professor at Huazhong, a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, a recipient of Natioinal Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Natioinal Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He is the Director of the Ministry of Education Engineering Center for Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, and the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program on New-Generation Artificial Intelligence under the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 initiative. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005, conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in 2007.
Zhang specializes in areas such as swarm intelligence, autonomous unmanned surface vehicle fleets coopeartion, and multi-robot collaborative manufacturing. He has led several major national-level projects, including the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Key Projects, two joint key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and GF Key Projects. He has published over 150 SCI-indexed papers, including more than 100 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, National Science Review, Automatica, and IEEE Trans/Journal/Magazine. He has authored three English monographs published by Springer. Zhang has received two First Prizes for Natural Science in Hubei Province and one First Prize for Technological Invention in Guangdong Province, all as the first awardees. He has been listed among Stanford University's top 2% of global scientists. His theoretical achievements in swarm intelligence have been highlighted by Nature Physics, and his applied research results have been reported by the State Council. He holds 40 authorized invention patents, 6 of which have been transferred to major enterprises, and has contributed to one national standard. His research achievements have been commercialized in organizations such as China State Shipbuilding Corporation and Guangzhou Shipyard International. He is a board member of the Chinese Association of Command and Control and has served as an editorial board member or associate editor for journals including IEEE Trans. SMC-Systems, IEEE Trans. CAS II, Engineering , Unmanned Systems, Control Theory and Applications, and Robot. Additionally, he has been on the program committees of important international conferences such as IEEE CDC, ACC, and IFAC.