Keynote Speakers

Junwei Han is currentlythe Dean anda Professor in School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, remote sensing image analysis, and brainpattern recognition. He has published more than150 papers in top journals such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV and so on and more than30 papers in top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ACM Multimedia, MICCAI, IJCAI, etc. He is an Associate Editor forseveral international journals including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMM, and so on.He is a Fellow of IEEE and IAPR.

He Xiao is a tenured professor at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Director of the Centre for Safety Control Technology Research, and Head of the Key Area Innovation Team under the Ministry of Transport.His research interests include state estimation, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and real-time safety assessment of dynamic systems. He has published over 300 papers in domestic and international journals and conferences.  He has led National Natural Science Foundation projects including Young Scientist Fund A, Young Scientist Fund B, and Key Projects. In 2021, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Association for Automation. He is currentlythe deputy secretary-general ofChinese Association of Automation (CAA), deputydirector andsecretary-general of thefaultdiagnosiscommittee of the CAA,deputydirector of theprocesscontrolcommittee of the CAA,deputydirector of theintelligentcontrol andsystemscommittee of theChinese Institute of Command and Control. He serves as an editorial board member for several international journals, including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TASEand Control Engineering Practice. He has received the First Prize of the Jilin Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, the First Prize of theCAANatural Science Award in 2015 and 2020, the First Prize of the CAA Technical Invention Award in 2022, and the Second Prize of the Beijing Natural Science Award in 2023.Four doctoral students he has supervised (including co-supervised) have won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of theCAA in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2024.

Prof. Jiafu Wan, South China University of Technology, China

万加富，教授，华南理工大学

Prof. Tao Xiang, Chongqing University,China

向 涛，教授，重庆大学

Jiafu Wan, a professor at South China University of Technology and a doctoral supervisor, is an IEEE Fellow (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and an AAIA Fellow (Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association). He has been named a "Highly Cited Researcher" by Clarivate Analytics from 2019 to 2024. His research focuses on the deep integration of information and communication technologies (including artificial intelligence and industrial big data) with advanced manufacturing technologies, covering areas such as cyber-physical systems, digital twins, embodied intelligence, smart factories, intelligent production lines, industrial big data, fault diagnosis, and industrial robots. He has led over 30 research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong Province, and Guangdong Province Key Areas R & D Program. He has published over 150 SCI journal papers (including over 60 in IEEE journals), with over 30,000 citations on Google Scholar and over 12,000 SCI citations. He has been granted 18 invention patents. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He has been named an "Elsevier China Highly Cited Researcher" from 2020 to 2024 and is among the world's top 2% of scientists (2020-2024). He has received the First Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2018), the Second Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2023), and the Second Prize of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award (2016).

Professor Tao Xiang is the Dean of College of Computer Science at Chongqing University. He is the recipient of Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program, Ministry of Education, and the Chief Scientist of National Key R&D Programs. His primary research interests include AI security, blockchain, privacy protection, and related fields. He has led major national projects including National Key R&D Programs and Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 200 papers in CCF A journals/conferences and IEEE/ACM Transactions. He has received multiple prestigious awards, including First Prize for Natural Science and First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from Chongqing Municipality, Second Prize for Natural Science and Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and two Second Prizes for Natural Science from Chongqing Municipality.

Prof. Guan Gui, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

桂 冠，教授，南京邮电大学

Prof. Jinyi Long, Jinan University, China

龙锦益，教授，暨南大学

Guan Gui (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2012. From 2009 to 2014, he was a research assistant and postdoctoral research fellow at Tohoku University, Japan. From 2014 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at Akita Prefectural University in Japan. Since 2015, he has been a Professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research focuses on intelligent sensing and recognition, intelligent signal processing, and physical layer security. Dr. Gui has authored over 200 IEEE journal and conference papers and received several best paper awards, including at ICC 2017, ICC 2014, and VTC 2014-Spring. He is a fellow of IEEE, IET, and AAIA, and he is recognized for his contributions to intelligent signal analysis and wireless resource optimization. Among his accolades, he received the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award in 2021 and was named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2021 to 2024. Dr. Gui is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He is an editorial board member for several leading journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Additionally, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. He has also held prominent roles in international conferences, such as Executive Chair of IEEE ICCT 2023, Executive Chair of VTC 2021-Fall, and Vice Chair of WCNC 2021.

Jinyi Long is afullprofessor and currently serves as the Director of the Department of Computer Science at Jinan University. His research focuses on brain-computer interface and fusion, and medical artificial intelligence. To date, he has published over 90 papers in journals and conferences such as TKDE,TFS, TBME, TIM, Brain, and Cerebral Cortex. He has received funding from several research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and has received awards such as the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award.

Yan Qiao (Senior Member, IEEE)received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. From Sep. 2014 to Sep. 2015, he was a Visiting Student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.Since 2016,he has been working at Macau University of Science and Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests includesemiconductor manufacturing systems, scheduling and control, AI technologies and their applications. He has over130 publications, includingmore than 50 papers inIEEE Transactions, 17 patents (8 US patents). He was the recipient of Best Paper Award in Application ofIEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Best Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Paper in Application by Technical Committee on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation ofIEEE Robotics and Automation Society, andHsue-shen Tsien Paper award of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Heserves as an Associate Editor of theIEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

Weibo Liu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence in 2020 from the Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K. His research interests include intelligent data analysis, evolutionary computation, transfer learning, machine learning and deep learning. He was the recipient of the 2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing and the Journal of Cognitive Computation, an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Scientific Reports. He is a very active reviewer for many international journals and conferences.