| Prof. David Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)IEEE Life Fellow and IAPR/AAIA Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellows of both Royal Societ of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Croucher Senior Research Fellow.David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 in both Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), respectively. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government since 2005. Currently, he is a Distinguished Presidential Chair Professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University and HIT, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founders, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG) and Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the first International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Transactions and so on. Over past 40 years, he have been working on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, where many research results have been awarded and some created directions, including palmprint recognition, computerized TCM and facial beauty analysis, are famous in the world. So far, he has published over 20 monographs, 500 international journal papers and 40 patents from USA/Japan/China. He has been continuously listed as a Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters) for consecutive 8 years (2014-2021) (http://highlycited.com). He is also ranked about 85 with H-Index 123 at Top 1000 Scientists for international Computer Science and Electronics in 2021. |
Prof. Hui Liu, Central South University, ChinaClarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, Highly cited scholar in China by Elsevier, H-index is 65Liu Hui is a professor at the level of Second-Class Professor at Central South University and a doctoral supervisor, with dual doctoral degrees from both China and Germany. He mainly engages in research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and data science and technology. He currently serves as the Deputy Dean of the School of Transportation Engineering at Central South University. Prof. Liu has been recognized as a National Top Youth Talents (2020), a "Leading Talent in Technological Innovation for Young and Middle-aged Individuals" by the Ministry of Transport of China (2023), a "Outstanding Young Scholar in Frontier Engineering" by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2023), and has received the "Outstanding International Engineer Award" from the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2022). He is also a participant in the "China-Europe Talent Program" by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the European Commission (2021), a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (2023; ResearcherID: B-1690-2013), and has been continuously listed as a highly cited scholar in China by Elsevier. He is included in the Stanford University list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide (ranked in the top 0.065%). He has published an English monograph titled "Smart Cities" as the first author, which won the China New Development Awards from Springer Nature (2023). He also published the monograph "Smart Metro Station Systems" as the first author, which was selected as a key publication by the National Press and Publication Administration of China for the "14th Five-Year Plan." Prof. Liu has led four National Natural Science Foundation projects, projects under the National Key Research and Development Program, the Excellent Young Researchers Fund from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany, and major funds from the UK Department for Transport. He is the leader of the "Train Operation Control and Intelligent Service Support" team at the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Central South University and the leader of the "Rail Transit Transport Robotics" innovation-driven youth team at the same institution. His H-index is 65. |
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| Prof. Nianyin Zeng, Xiamen University, ChinaHighly Cited Researcher for the year 2023， H-Index of 42Nianyin Zeng is currently a Professor in the Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering at Xiamen University. From September 2017 to August 2018, he held the prestigious position of ISEF Fellow sponsored by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, while also serving as a Visiting Professor at the esteemed Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Dr. Zeng currently holds or has held the position of Associate Editor for Neurocomputing Frontiers in Medical Technology and Evolutionary Intelligence, as well as serving on the Editorial Board for Computers in Biology and Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Online, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Journal of Image and Graphics. Additionally, he has acted as a Guest Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Medical Technology. Furthermore, he has served as a program committee member for several prestigious international conferences focused on intelligent data analysis such as EAI ICMTEL, ACAIT, ICCSE. His current research interests encompass intelligent data analysis, machine learning, computer vision, computational intelligence, system modeling, and their applications. He has authored over 100 research papers in reputable journals and conferences as well as obtained 18 patents. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 10,000 times with an H-Index of 42. |
Prof. Xiangjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, ChinaCCF Distinguished Member, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Member, American Honor Society for Scientific Research MemberHe was invited to serve as the chairman of the conference/program committee of more than 10 international conferences such as CCVPR, and did the conference/keynote at more than 10 international conferences such as IEEE CCCI. He has been a member of several international conference Program Committees (TPC), such as IJCAI, KDD, IEEE BigData, IJCNN, COMPLEX NETWORKS, IEEE UIC, IEEE ICC, etc. IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE NETW, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, Computer journal and other top domestic and foreign journal reviewers. Research fields: urban computing, social computing, knowledge management, etc Academic Overview: With a Google Academic H Index of 51, he has published/accepted more than 200 papers in international journals or conferences such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IJCAI, ACM Computing Surveys (more than 180 of which are SCI indexed papers), He edited "Computer Network" and wrote "Introduction to Big Data" and "Advanced Computer Network" textbooks as deputy editor, and was authorized more than 30 invention patents. |
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| Prof. Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University , ChinaDistinguished professor , Youth 1000 National Talent in ChinaProf. Philippe Fournier-Viger (Ph.D) is a Canadian researcher, distinguished professor at Shenzhen University (China). Five years after completing his Ph.D., he came to China in 2015 and became full professor after receiving a national talent title from the National Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 375 research papers related to data mining algorithms for complex data (sequences, graphs), intelligent systems and applications, which have received more than 12,000 citations (cf. Google Scholar). He is the founder of the popular SPMF data mining library, offering more than 250 algorithms to find patterns in data, cited in more than 1,000 research papers. He is former associate edito-in-chief of the Applied Intelligence journal and has been keynote speaker for over 25 international conferences and co-edited four books for Springer. He is a co-founder of the UDML, PMDB and MLiSE series of workshops held at the ICDM, PKDD, DASFAA, and KDD conferences. |
