Prof. Ruqiang Yan

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Ruqiang Yan received the B.S. degree in electro-mechanical engineering and M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1997 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007.

He was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2006-2008 and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China from 2019 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in 2018. His research interests include energy-efficient sensing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence for the condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis of large-scale, complex, dynamical systems.

Dr. Yan is a Fellow of IEEE (2022) and ASME (2019). His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award in 2022 and Technical Award in 2019, and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2023. Dr. Yan is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

Prof. Junwei Han

Northwestern Polytechnical University, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

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.

Prof. Bingkun Bao

Hefei University of Technology, China

Dean of the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology; President of the Anhui Association for Artificial Intelligence; Second-Class Professor; Doctoral Supervisor; Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; Young Top-Notch Talent of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" (organized by the Central Organization Department); Distinguished Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province; Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent. Research interests include multimedia computing, social multimedia, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. He has led multiple national and provincial/ministerial projects, including the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030—Artificial Intelligence Major Project, Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program.

Prof. Lianli Gao

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Dr. Lianli Gao is a Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Dr. Gao received her Ph.D in School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (ITEE) at University of Queensland in 2014 (under the supervision of Prof. Jane Hunter, Prof. Michael Bruenig and A/Prof. Yuan-Fang Li and her B.CS. in School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2009, respectively.

Her research interests include multimedia understanding, computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and AI for Robotics, and published over 160 publications at prestigious journals and proceedings in prominent conferences (including 70+ IEEE/ACM Transactions and 70+ CCF-A papers (Chinese Computing Federation A ranked (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR)). Her publications have been cited in Google Scholar more than 10,000+ times, and her H-Index in Google Scholar is 54. She has received Best Student Paper Award from Australasian Database Conference 2017, Rising Star Award from IEEE Technical Community on Multimedia Computing 2020, Sichuan Provincial Academic/Technical Leader (Reserve Candidate) 2021, UESTC Research Excellence Award (2018, 2020,2023), Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow Award 2019, Rising Star of Science Award 2023, and also has been selected as one of the 2023 Chinese Young Female Scholars in Artificial Intelligence for her outstanding academic performance in AI. In terms of international challenges she received ICCV Deeper Action 3rd Place Award in Kinetics-TPS Challenge on Part-level Action Parsing 2021, CVPR Security AI Challenger Phrase VI Track 1st Place award in White-box Adversarial Attacks on ML Defense Models 2021, ICCV COCO DensePose Challenge 2nd place award 2019, OPPO Security Challenge 2nd Place 2021, and ECCV DeeperAction Track4 3nd Place 2022, etc.