Prof. Jun Wang

IEEE/IAPR Fellow, Member of Academia Europaea

City University of Hong Kong, China

Jun Wang is a Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. Prior, he held various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, University of North Dakota, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also held various short-term visiting positions at USAF Armstrong Laboratory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree from Dalian University of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, and HKAE Fellow, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. He is a recipient of the APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award, IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award, CAAI Wu Wenjun AI Achievement Award, and IEEE SMCS Norbert Wiener Award, among other distinctions.

Prof. Qing Li

IEEE&IET  Fellow

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Qing Li is a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management, conceptual data modeling, social media, Web services, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 500 publications in these areas, with over 53,000 citations and H-index of 93 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an Editor-in-Chief of Computer & Education: X Reality (CEXR) by Elsevier, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Data Science and Engineering (DSE), and World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat in the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, WISE and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Zuqing Zhu

IEEE Fellow

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Professor Zhu Zuoqing pursued his doctoral degree at the University of California, Davis, from September 2003 to July 2007. From July 2007 to January 2011, he served as a senior engineer in the Service Provider Technology Group at Cisco Systems headquarters in the United States. In 2011, he was selected for the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. From January 2011 to June 2014, he was an associate professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. In June 2014, he became a professor and doctoral supervisor in the same department. In November 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Prof. Liang Hu

Tongji University, China

Dr Liang Hu is a professor with Tongi University and also the Chief Al Scientist with DeepBlue Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include recommender systems, machine leaming, data science and general intelligence. He has published a number of papers in top rank interational conferences and journals, including WWW, IJCAI, AAAL, ICDM, TOIS, TKDE, TNNLS. He has been invited as the program commitee members of more than 30 top-rank Al interational conferences, including AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, CIKM, and KDD. He also serves as the reviewer of more than ten top-rank interational journals, including ACM CSUR, IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, IEEE TPAMl, etc. In addition,he has presented more than ten tutorials on recommender systems and machine leaing at top-rank Al conferences including IJCAl, AAAl, SIGIR, WWW and ICDM.