Speakers

Professor Weisheng Li

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,  China     

Li Weisheng, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice President of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT), and Executive Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology. He is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor (awarded by the Ministry of Education of China), New Century Excellent Talent (recognized by the Ministry of Education), Academic and Technical Leader of Chongqing, and Director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Image Cognition. He also serves as Vice Chair of the CCF (China Computer Federation) Chongqing Chapter and Vice Chair of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Chongqing Chapter.

He has led over 30 major research projects, including the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Joint Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and National Key R&D Program of China-Government International Cooperation Key Special Project. His primary research focuses on Big Data Intelligent Computing, Pattern Recognition, and Digital Image Processing. He has published over 100 papers in internationally renowned journals and top conferences. His notable accolades include: First Prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of the Chongqing Natural Science Award, First Prize of the Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Award.

Professor Jie Shao

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,  China

Professor Shao Jie (Australian citizen) currently serves as Executive Vice President of the Sichuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Yibin). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2009 and has conducted research and teaching at The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, and National University of Singapore. He has pioneered innovative research in multimedia, big data, and artificial intelligence, publishing over 100 high-impact academic papers in journals such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TMM, IEEE TGRS, IEEE THMS, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TOIS, and ACM TOMM, as well as top conferences including ACM MM, IEEE ICDE, VLDB, IJCAI, and AAAI. His accolades include the Best Paper Award at DASFAA 2012 and Best Paper Finalist at PCM 2017.

As the primary inventor, he holds 20 granted national invention patents (2 transferred). He has led 2 NSFC General Programs and 1 Sichuan Key R&D Project, co-directed 1 NSFC Key Program as a collaborative unit lead, and managed industry R&D projects commissioned by Tencent, Huawei, and China Academy of Railway Sciences.

He has served as a Guest Editor for journals including International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering, Pattern Recognition Letters, and World Wide Web Journal, and has long been a reviewer for CCF A/B-tier journals (e.g., IEEE TPAMI, TKDE, TNNLS, TMM, TCYB, TGRS, TCSVT, and ACM TOMM) and program committee member/senior member for major international conferences such as ACM KDD, MM, IEEE ICDE, CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, and ACL. In 2019, he chaired the Program Committee of APWeb-WAIM 2019, a CCF-recommended international conference in big data.

Professor Zhiwei Huang

Southwest Medical University, China     

Huang Zhiwei, Male, Professor, Ph.D., Master's Supervisor, currently serves as Vice Dean of the School of Medical Information and Engineering at Southwest Medical University. He is the Academic Leader of the Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Central Nervous System Drugs (Co-established by Provincial and Municipal Departments) and an Academic Committee Member of the Luzhou Municipal Key Laboratory for Medical-Engineering-Informatics Integration and Translational Medicine. He is also a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Biomedical Engineering Programs and the Emerging Engineering Education Teaching Guidance Committee under the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education. With long-term expertise in teaching and research in biomedical engineering, his research focuses on biomedical signals and instruments and medical image processing. He has participated in 2 national-level research projects, led 3 provincial/ministerial-level projects, and directed 3 departmental/municipal-level projects. Over the past five years, he has published 15 SCI-indexed papers as the first author or corresponding author. His notable honors include: Second Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, Third Prize of the Science and Technology Innovation Progress Award (China Association of Medicine Education).

Associate Professor Shudong Huang

Sichuan University, China

Huang Shudong, Associate Professor/Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Computer Science (School of Software, School of Intelligent Science and Technology), Sichuan University. His primary research focuses on multimodal learning, multimodal large models, and related fields. He has led multiple National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and Sichuan Key R&D Projects. He has published over 60 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, including Nature-family journals, IEEE Trans series, and CCF-A ranked venues, with several recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers and awarded the Sichuan Computer Society Annual Outstanding Paper Award. His research outcomes have been applied in collaboration with organizations such as the Nuclear Power Institute of China, Huawei, Tencent, and New Hope Group. He serves as Area Chair/Senior Technical Program Committee Member for leading AI conferences including NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, IJCAI, and AAAI, and holds the position of Associate Editor of the Specialized Columns for the journal Engineering Science and Technology.