Keynote Speakers&Invited Speakers

 

 

Prof. Jianshe Zhou, Vice president, Capital Normal University, China
PhD from Wuhan University, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and the University of Kansas, director of the Chinese Language Intelligence Research Center of the National Language Commission, director of the Linguistic Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, professor, doctoral supervisor, and postdoctoral co-mentor of the School of Liberal Arts of Capital Normal University, former teaching, Vice president of scientific research, chief expert of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, and chief key expert of major projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He was the first to propose the concept of "linguistic intelligence" in the field of AI and established the first doctoral program in linguistic intelligence in China. Won the second prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Beijing Excellent Teaching Achievements, the second prize of National Excellent Teaching Achievements, the Scientific Chinese Person of the Year Award, the China Industry-Academy-Research Cooperation Promotion Award, and the highest award of China’s Intelligent Technology - Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress.

 

Prof. Yanan Sun,

Sichuan University, China

Professor Sun Yanan,, doctoral supervisor, national-level young talent, Sichuan Province Tianfu Emei Plan Talent, winner of Chengdu May 1st Labor Medal. Deputy director of the Engineering Center for Machine Learning and Industrial Intelligence Applications of the Ministry of Education, deputy editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and deputy editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System, an authoritative journal in the field of artificial intelligence.
His research directions include machine learning, neural networks, evolutionary computation and their applications in neural architecture search (NAS). In the past 5 years, he has published 45 papers as the first/corresponding author in IEEE Transactions and CCF-A journals/conferences, 4 of which were selected as ESI hot papers and ESI highly cited papers, and 3 were selected as IEEE CIS research frontier papers ( Research Frontier), 2 papers were selected as Best/Spotlight papers at international conferences, 1 English academic monograph was published (Springer Press), and was continuously selected into Stanford University's "World's Top 2% Scientists" list; authorized by the United States and 23 Chinese invention patents; undertake national, provincial and ministerial level projects as well as Baidu and Huawei projects. Guided many undergraduates to publish papers at international conferences and gave invited oral reports; guided master's students to publish papers in CCF-A categories and IEEE Transactions as the first author many times; guided master's students to win many national scholarships, Sichuan University First-class postgraduate scholarship, top ten academic newcomers of Sichuan University and other honors, and won the first place in the world in the Neural Architecture Search Competition (CVPR23-NAS) organized by CVPR23.

 

Prof. M S S El Namaki
VU School of Management, Switzerland

Prof El Namaki is a graduate of the universities of Brussels (Ph. D, 1977), Erasmus (MA, 1967) and MIT (Executive Program, 1982). Prof El Namaki teaches and consults on strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and international business. He is past founder and Dean of the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Maastricht, The Netherlands (1984-2002). He is now Dean of the VU School of Management, Switzerland. Prof El Namaki has developed and introduced management degree programs (MBA, EMBA, DBA and Ph. D) at institutions in the Netherlands, China, Egypt, Brazil, Poland, Kazakhstan, Syria, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, among others. Prof El Namaki taught globally at as recognized institutions as MSM (Maastricht), Kellogg (Chicago), Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Beijing University (Beijing), AIT (Bangkok), Helsinki School of Economics (Helsinki), Sheffield University (Sheffield) and several others. Prof El Namaki assumed executive positions within Philips (Eindhoven), McKinsey (London and Dar es Salaam) and Time Inc. (Amsterdam). Prof El Namaki consulted and delivered executive seminars World-wide and his clients included key MNC’s as well as landmark national corporations as China Pacific Insurance Corporation CPIC (Shanghai), and Abraaj (United Arab Emirates). Prof El Namaki did long and short term consultancy missions for the European Union (EU), The World Bank and The Netherlands government. Countries covered by these missions included, among others China, Thailand and Kazakhstan.

 

Assoc.Prof. Shouxi Luo
Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Shouxi Luo is currently an Associate Professor with Southwest Jiaotong University. He received the bachelor’s degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively.  His research interests include datacenter networking, software-defined networking, and networked systems.

 

Assoc. Prof. Rui Han
Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Dr. Rui Han is an associate professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Before joining BIT in 2014, He received MSc with honor in 2010 from Tsinghua University, China, and obtained his PhD degree in 2014 from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are cloud and edge computing, big data systems, and system optimization for highly parallel workloads (in particular big data analytics and deep learning applications). He has over 50 publications in these areas, including papers at ACM MobiCom, TC, TPDS, TKDE, TDSC, INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICPP, CCGrid, and CLOUD and serves as TPC in internaitonal system conferences including EuroSys, Middleware, ICDCS, CCGrid, Cloud, UCC, and Edge.

 

 

Asst. Prof. Yu Li,

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yu Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, leading the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIH) group. He is also the Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT/Harvard, working with Prof. James Collins. He works at the intersection between machine learning, healthcare and bioinformatics, developing new machine learning methods to resolve the computational problems in biology and healthcare, which leads to over 60 papers in top venues, such as Nature Computational Science, Nature Communications, and PNAS. In 2022, he was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, Healthcare & Science. His team won the Championship in the CASP15-RNA 3D structure prediction competition in 2022. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from KAUST in 2020, after which he was nominated KAUST Alumni Change Makers Awards in 2022. Before that, he got the Bachelor degree in Biosciences with the First-class Honors from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

 

Dr. Wei Zhang
Oregon State University, USA

Wei Zhang, Ph.D., graduated from Oregon State University and obtained a doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009, advised by Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in HP Labs in Palo Alto California. From 2010 to 2015, he worked at Google in the US as a tech lead and AI researcher. Recent years he has been a technical leader in top internet companies in China. He published 20+ papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, big data and AI applications.