Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yuhui Shi

IEEE Fellow

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Dr. Yuhui Shi is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SouthernUniversity of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Before joining SUSTech, he was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU),Suzhou, China, from January 2008 to August 2016, and was with the Electronic Data Systems Corporation(EDS), Indiana, USA, from October 1998 to December 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research. Dr. Shi co-authored a book on Swarm Intelligence together with Dr. James Kennedy and Dr. Russell C. Eberhart, and another book on ComputationalIntelligence: Concept to Implementation together with Dr. Russell C. Eberhart.

Prof. Min Chen

IEEE Fellow，IET Fellow

H-index=94

South China University Of Technology, China

Min Chen is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and AAIA Fellow. He is the founding Chair of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities on Big Data. He was General Co-Chair for IEEE CIT-2012, Tridentcom 2014, Mobimedia 2015, Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2012-Communications Theory Symposium, and Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2013-Wireless Networks Symposium and Symposium Chair of IEEE Globecom 2022 eHealth, etc. He has 300+ publications, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE TNNLS, AAAI, Advanced Materials、Science, Nature Communications, etc. His Google Scholar Citations reached 44,000+ with an h-index of 97. His top paper was cited 4,500+ times. He was selected as ESI Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2023. He got IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2012, IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2017, the IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2019, and IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Award in 2022. His research focuses on cognitive computing, 5G Networks, wearable computing, big data analytics, robotics, fabric computing, deep learning, emotion detection, and mobile edge computing, etc.

Prof. Tao Lei

Vice Dean

IEEE/CCF/CSIG Senior Member

Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China

Lei Tao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. He is alos the vice dean of the School of Electronic Information and Artificial Intelligence, and Senior Member of IEEE/CCF/CSIG. He is selected from the Shaanxi Provincial High level Talent Program, Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Youth, Stanford Top 2% Global Scientists List, etc. He is a deputy editor, editorial board member, guest editor, etc. for 7 journals, and serves as conference chairman, technical committee chairman, publicity chairman, reward committee chairman, branch chairman, etc. in more than 30 international conferences. His main research areas are computer vision, machine learning, etc. At present, He has published 4 collections of specialized/authored and conference papers, and have published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences such as IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE TFS, IEEE TGRS, and IJCAI. Among them, 9 papers are ESI highly cited papers. His Google Academic Citation has exceeded 4600. He hosted many projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (5 projects), Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, and Shaanxi Provincial Key Research and Development Program. He won the second prize of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Award and the first prize of Gansu Province Higher Education Research Excellent Achievement Award as the first complete person.

Prof. Zhi Li

Vice Dean 

CCF Distinguished Member

IEEE/ACM Senior member

Guangxi Normal University, China

Prof. Zhi Li is a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF), standing committee member of its Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE), and a member of its Technical Council on Systems Software and Formal Methods. He graduated with a BSc degree from Fudan University in 1991, an MScdegree from the University of York in 2004, and a PhD degree from The Open University in 2008. Prof. Li had spent over 10 years doing professional and technical work before he entered academia in 2001, withsubsequent 9 years in the UK. His research interests are modeling, verifying, testing and validating Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) or Internet of Things (IoT) systems based on Problem Frames, andHuman-Computer Interaction. His research has been sponsored by 2 grants from the National NaturalScience Foundation of China, and 4 grants from Ministry of Education of China, Guangxi Natural ScienceFoundation, and Guangxi Scientific Research & Technological Development. He has published over 50research papers (including 3 CCF-A papers and 3 best papers). He has given over 10 invited talks atacademic conferences.

Prof. Xiangjie Kong

IEEE Senior Member

Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Dr. Xiangjie Kong is currently a Full Professor in the College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang.

University of Technology (ZJUT), China. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in School of Software,Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, where he was the Head of the Department of CyberEngineering. He is the Founding Director of City Science of Social Computing Lab (The CSSC Lab)(http://www.cssclab.cn). He is/was on the Editorial Boards of 6 International journals. He has served as the General Co-Chair, Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair or Program Committee Member of over 30 conferences.Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored over 140 scientific papers in international journals and conferencesincluding IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE NETW, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOJ, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TASE, IEEE TCSS, WWWJ, etc.. 5 of his papers is selected asESI- Hot Paper (Top 1‰), and 16 papers are ESI-Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%).  His research has beenreported by Nature Index and other medias. He has been invited as Reviewers for numerous prestigiousjournals including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE NETW, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, etc.. Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored three books (in Chinese).Hehas contributed to the development of 14 copyrighted software systems and 20 filed patents. He has anh-index of 39 and i10-index of 97, and a total of more than 5200 citations to his work according to GoogleScholar. He is named in the 2019 and 2020 world’s top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University. r. Kong received IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, and TheNatural Science Fund of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at 2 international conferences, and delivered a number of Invited Talks at international conferences and many universities worldwide.  His research interests include big data, network science, and computational social science. He is a Distinguished Member of CCF, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Full Member of Sigma Xi, and a Member of ACM.