Prof. Shui Yu
IEEE Fellow
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Shui Yu (IEEE F’23) obtained his PhD from Deakin University, Australia, in 2004. He is a Professor of School of Computer Science, Deputy Chair of University Research Committee, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interest includes Cybersecurity, Network Science, Big Data, and Mathematical Modelling. He has published five monographs and edited two books, more than 500 technical papers at different venues, such as IEEE TDSC, TPDS, TC, TIFS, TMC, TKDE, TETC, ToN, and INFOCOM. His current h-index is 71. Professor Yu promoted the research field of networking for big data since 2013, and his research outputs have been widely adopted by industrial systems, such as Amazon cloud security. He is currently serving the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Area Editor) and IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Editor). He served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2018-2021). He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society, and an elected member of Board of Governors of IEEE VTS and ComSoc, respectively. He is a member of ACM and AAAS, and a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Qing Li
IEEE Fellow
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Qing Li is a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management, conceptual data modeling, social media, Web services, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 500 publications in these areas, with over 36000 citations and H-index of 76 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an associate editor of a number of major technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Data Science and Engineering (DSE), and World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat on the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ER, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Sam Kwong
IEEE Fellow
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, and concurrently as Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research) of Lingnan University. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong was listed as one of the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists, according to the Stanford University report. He was listed as one of the top 1% of the world’s most cited scientists by Clarivate in 2022. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in 2022, and the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-23. Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record with over 350 journal articles, and 160 conference paperswith an h-index of 76 based on Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of a number of leading IEEE transaction journals.

Prof. Wenhong Tian
University of Electronic and Science Technology of China, China

Tian Wenhong, a professor and doctoral supervisor, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in the United States. The current director of the Advanced Computing Laboratory at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, director of the Sichuan Intelligent Home Information Technology Engineering Research Center, member of the Academic Committee of the School of Software, and leader of the Cloud Computing discipline.
His research focuses on optimizing and scheduling computing resources in cloud computing, big data, and AI platforms, as well as deep learning based image recognition and its applications. He is a Senior Member of the Chinese Computer Society (CCF) and IEEE Senior Member. He has been selected as one of the first batch of "Western Light" talent programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates in Sichuan Province, Chengdu Special Experts (Rong Piao Plan), and the "Spark Plan" of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
He has successively led one general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and four international regional cooperation projects, as well as one of the first batch of national key research and development projects for artificial intelligence by the Ministry of Science and Technology of 2030, and more than 20 other projects; In recent years, more than 50 invention patents have been applied for, and more than 20 invention patents have been granted in China and 1 patent has been granted in the United States; Published over 100 high-level papers as the first or corresponding author, and edited 7 Chinese and English monographs. After nearly 20 years of deep cultivation in the field of industry university research cooperation, it has produced good social and economic benefits. In 2023, it was awarded the "Spark Award" by Huawei and was one of the nine winners of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.