General Chair
Prof. Junchi Yan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
IAPR/IET/AAIA Fellow
Junchi Yan (Senior Member, IEEE) was a Senior Research Staff Member at IBM Research, Beijing, China, where he started his career in April 2011. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include machine learning and computer vision.,Dr. Yan received the ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award and the China Computer Federation Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on graph matching. He regularly serves as a Senior PC/Area Chair for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) and an Associate Editor for the Pattern Recognition journal. Program Committee Chairs (Alphabetize by Last Name)
Prof. Duoqian Miao
Tongji University, China
IRSS/CAAI Fellow
Duoqian Miao is currently a Professor and a Ph.D. Tutor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He serves as the Vice President of the International Rough Set Society, the Executive Manager for the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Chair of the CAAI Granular Computing Knowledge Discovery Technical Committee, a Distinguished Member of the Chinese Computer Federation (CCF), the Vice President for the Shanghai Computer Federation, and the Vice President for the Shanghai Association for Artificial Intelligence. He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and an Editor of the Journal of Computer Research and Development (in Chinese).
Prof. Zhonghong Ou
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Zhonghong Ou (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, in 2010.,He has been a Professor with the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, since December 2015. From 2010 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. He has a wide spectrum of research interests, including big data analytics, image processing, and deep learning.
Prof. Feng Zhao
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Feng Zhao is a professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, foundation model, autonomous driving, machine learning, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and brain-inspired vision. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 papers in referred international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions (e.g., TFS, TNNLS, TMM, TCSVT, TGRS, TCAS-I), Pattern Recognition, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, AAAI, ACM MM, and EMNLP. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award in ICIDM 2018, SenseTime Scholar 2019, Innovation Scholar 2019, Champion of IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 3D AI Challenge, Runner-up of CVPR 2021 Streaming Perception Challenge, and Champions of ICCV 2023 Continual Test-time Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation Challenge and Multitask Learning for Robustness Challenge. He was the Program Committee Chair of the International Conference on AI-Generated Content (AIGC) 2023, and the Area Chairs of ACM MM 2023 and 2024. As a key researcher, Co-PI, or PI, he has participated in and conducted research projects with a total funding of 100 million.
Program Committee Co-Chairs(Alphabetize by Last Name)
Assoc. Prof. Ping Luo
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Ping Luo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong, an Associate Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU IDS), and a Deputy Director of the Joint Research Lab of HKU and Shanghai AI Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoou Tang (founder of SenseTime) and Prof. Xiaogang Wang. Before joining HKU in 2019, he was a Research Director in SenseTime. He has published 100+ papers in international conferences and journals such as TPAMI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and CVPR, with over 50,000 citations on Google Scholar. He was awarded the 2015 AAAI Easily Accessible Paper, nominated for the 2022 Computational Visual Media Journal's Best Paper of the Year, won the 2022 ACL Outstanding Paper, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Outstanding Papers, and was a candidate for the Best Paper at ICCV’23. He was recognized as one of the innovators under 35 in the Asia-Pacific region by the MIT Technology Review (MIT TR35) in 2020. He has mentored 30 Ph.D. students, many of whom have received significant awards such as the Nvidia Fellowship, Baidu Fellowship, WAIC Yunfan Award, etc.
Dr. Qibin Zhao
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan
Qibin Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2009.,He was a Research Scientist with RIKEN Brain Science Institute from 2009 to 2017. He joined RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project as a unit leader from 2017 to 2019, and is currently a Team Leader of tensor learning team. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include machine learning, tensor factorization and tensor networks, and brain signal processing. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific papers and coauthored two monographs on tensor networks. He serves as an Area Chair of top-tier ML Conferences of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and ACML, and an Action Editor for Neural Networks and Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Noor Zaman Jhanjhi
Taylor's University, Malaysia
Professor Dr. Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, often referred to as N.Z. Jhanjhi, holds the esteemed position of Professor in Computer Science with specializations in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as the Program Director for Postgraduate Research Degree Programmes in Computer Science and Director of the Center for Smart Society (CSS5) at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% research scientists for consecutive years in 2022 and 2023, he is esteemed as one of Malaysia's top three computer science researchers. Notably, he was honoured as an Outstanding Faculty Member by MDEC Malaysia in 2022.
Publicity Chair
Prof. Zhiquan Liu
Jinan University, China
Deputy Dean with the College of Cyber Security
Zhiquan Liu received the BS degree from the School of Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2012, and the PhD degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2017. He is currently a professor with the College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. His current research focuses on trust management, privacy preservation, and artificial intelligence in vehicular networks and UAV networks.
Publicity Co-Chair
Dr. Abhilash Puthanveettil Madathil
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), UK
Dr. Abhilash Puthanveettil Madathil is a researcher at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), specializing in AI-driven manufacturing innovations. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde, where he focused on developing explainable AI-based manufacturing digital twins. His research expertise spans smart manufacturing, AI in manufacturing, digital twin technologies, additive manufacturing, and ultra-precision manufacturing. He has published over 25 research articles in international journals and has edited a book titled Bioimplants Manufacturing.
Local Chair
Prof. Zhao Li
Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Zhao Li is an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University and the cofounder of Hangzhou Yugu Tech. He holds memberships in IEEE, IEEE CIS, the China Computer Federation (Distinguished Member), the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. Previously, he was a lab director of the Alibaba-ZJU Joint Research Center for Frontier Technologies. He published over 200 top-tier papers including TPAMI, earning several Best Paper recognitions (including IEEE-CCF) and Highly Cited Papers. His achievements include awards like the IEEE Open Source Science Award, CCF Distinguished Speaker, UN ITU Innovate for Impact, and selection for Stanford's "World's Top 2% Scientists" list.
Publication Chair
Asst. Prof. Ruidan Su
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dr. Ruidan Su received his MSc in Software Engineering from Northeastern University, China in 2010, and his Ph.D degree in Computer Application Technology from Northeastern University, China in 2014. He was an assistant professor of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2015–2020. He is currently a research assistant professor with Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Ruidan Su is an IEEE Senior Member. He was the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems published by American Scientific Publisher from 2012-2016. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Granular Computing Published by Springer, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems published by IOS Press, a Review Board Member for Applied Intelligence. His field of science is artificial intelligence, system optimization, AI applications in medical image and finance.

Program Committees (Alphabetize by Last Name) Asst. Prof. Furqan Alam, Sohar University, Oman
Dr. Ammar Alazab, Torrens University Australia, Australia
Dr. Mona Alhasani, Dalhousie University, Canada
Assoc. Prof. Abeer Alkhwaldi , Mutah University, Jordan
Dr. Joseph Arul, Saint Francis University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Asst. Prof. Nidal AlSaid, Ajman University, UAE
Dr. Heling Bao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China
Prof. Kamel Barkaoui, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
Dr. Sabine Bohlmann, Hochschule Harz, Germany
Prof. Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France
Prof. Chengtao Cai, Harbin Engineering University, China
Prof. Marco A. Casanova, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Assoc. Prof. Ke Chen, Pengcheng Laboratory, China
Asst. Prof. Sinan Chen, Kobe University, Japan
Dr. Xuhang Chen, Huizhou Univeristy, China
Dr. Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Assoc. Prof. Michael Dolinsky, Gomel State University, Belarus
Assoc. Prof. Mahmoud Gharaibeh, Al-Ain University, UAE
Dr. Mozhgan Ghassemiazghandi, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Tianlong Gu, Jinan University, China
Prof. Xiyuan Hu, Beijing University of Technology, China
Prof. Soonkyu Jang, Keimyung University, South Korea
Asst. Prof. Baiyang Li, Nanjing University, China
Dr. Bin Li, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Hongjun Li , Beijing Forestry University, China
Dr. Zichao Li, University of Waterloo, Canada
Assoc. Prof. Yu-Tao Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Han Liu, Xi'an University of Technology, China
Dr. Dianxin Luan, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Zhongqiang Luo, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China
Assoc. Prof. Patrick Goh Kuan Lye, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Asst. Prof. Yuyi Mao, Macau University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Zlatan Morić, Algebra University College, Croatia
Dr. Ahmadreza Mohebbi, University of Auckland, Auckland
Prof. S.M.F.D Syed Mustapha, Zayed University, UAE
Prof. George A. Papakostas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dr. Moritz Platt, King’s College London, UK
Assoc. Prof. Jean-Philippe Prost, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Assoc. Prof. Yousef Qawqzeh, University of Fujairah, UAE
Prof. Guoping Qiu, University of Nottingham, UK & University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Prof. Mohammed Riyadh ABDMEZIEM, ESI Algiers, Algeria
Prof. Igor Rižnar, University of Primorska, Slovenija
Dr. Tao Ruan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Prof. Maya Rumenova Lambovska, University of National & World Economics, Bulgaria
Asst. Prof. Nidal Mahmoud Al Said, Ajman University, UAE
Assoc. Prof. Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj, American International University Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Mr. Jiho Shin, York University, Canada
Dr. Vinicius Luiz Santos Silva, Petrobras, Brazil & Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Lavanya Srinivasan, University of West London, UK
Prof. Artur Strzelecki, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Dr. Chengzhe Sun, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Assoc. Prof. Min-Chang Sung, Gyeongin National University of Education, Republic of Korea
Prof. Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Assoc. Prof. Victor Telnov, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia
Prof. Wenhong Tian, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Mohammad Saleh Torkestani, University of Exeter, UK
Mr. Boheng Wang, Imperial College London, UK
Assoc. Prof. Yu Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Liew Tze Wei, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Asst. Prof. Haiyan Wu, University of Macau, China
Asst. Prof. Kejun Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Peng Wu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Robert Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Assoc. Prof. Liangxu Xie, Jiangsu University of Technology, China
Asst. Prof. Yijia Xu, Sichuan University, China
Assoc. Prof. Jiaolong Xue, Sichuan University, China
Prof. Akihiro Yamaguchi, Toshiba Corporation & Kyushu University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Ziyi Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Zhenjie Yao, Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Jerome YEN, The University of Macau, China
Asst. Prof. Irfan Yousuf, University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan
Asst. Prof. Wei-Han Yu, University of Macau, China
Prof. Wen Yu, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Asst. Prof. Imene Zenbout, Ferhat Abbas University Setif 1, Algeria
Assoc. Prof. Haoxi Zhang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Ningyu Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Qunzi Zhang, Shandong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Zequn Zhang, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr.Chris Zielinski, University of Winchester, UK