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Yi-Hsuan Tsai

Yi-Hsuan Tsai is the Director of AI at Phiar, leading the AI team to conduct cutting-edge research for real-world AR navigation. He was a senior researcher at NEC Laboratories America, working on fundamental computer vision/deep learning research. He received his PhD at University of California, Merced, honored with the Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. Prior to that, he received his MS at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and BS at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Honorable Mention award for ACCV'18. He has various research interests in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on scene understanding, video analysis, fairness of AI, and representation learning.

Ivor W Tsang

Ivor W Tsang is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is also the Research Director of the UTS Flagship Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) with more than 30 faculty members and 180 PhD students. His research focuses on transfer learning, feature selection, crowd intelligence, big data analytics for data with extremely high dimensions in features, samples and labels. He has more than 180 research papers published in top-tier journal and conference papers. According to Google Scholar, he has more than 13,000 citations and his H-index is 54. In 2009, Prof Tsang was conferred the 2008 Natural Science Award (Class II) by Ministry of Education, China, which recognized his contributions to kernel methods. In 2013, Prof Tsang received his prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for his research regarding Machine Learning on Big Data. In addition, he had received the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2004 Paper Award in 2007, the 2014 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award, and a number of best paper awards and honors from reputable international conferences, including the Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2010. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and Neurocomputing. He serves as an Area Chair/Senior PC for NeurIPS, AISTATS, AAAI and IJCAI.

Shibiao Wan

Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core at UNMC.

With more than 13 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >40 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.

Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >50 prestigious journals including Nature Computational Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Cancer Research, Genome Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the global peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is also an Outstanding Young Alumni Awardee in 2021-2022. Dr. Wan is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM.

Meng Wang

Dr. Meng Wang is a professor at the Hefei University of Technology, China. His current research interests include multimedia content analysis, search, mining, recommendation, and large-scale computing. He received the best paper awards successively from the 17th and 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2014.

Lexing Xie

Lexing Xie is Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She leads the ANU Computational Media lab (http://cm.cecs.anu.edu.au/). Her current research interests are in machine learning on graphs and time series, especially on understanding individual and aggregate behaviour in online social networks, at the intersection of media, language and behaviour. She was research staff member at IBM T J Watson Research Center 2005-2010. She is Associate editor for ACM TOIS, ACM TiiS and PeerJ CS.

Jianchao Yang

Research scientist at Adobe Research. Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Focuses on computer vision, deep learning, and image processing.

Jiachen Yang

Prof. Dr. Jiachen Yang is an Associate Editor for “Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing”, “Alexandria Engineering Journal”, “IEEE Access”, “IET Image Processing”, “Sensors”, etc. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Electronical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer Science, School of Science, Loughborough University, U.K. In 2019, He was a visiting scholar with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His recent research interests include image processing, artificial intelligence, and information security. He has published more than 150 technical articles in highly ranked journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning System, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, etc. His Google Scholar H-index is 28.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Birmingham. She is currently a Reader in Royal Holloway, University of London. She has expertise in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and evolutionary computation. She is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Yu-Dong Zhang

From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Yudong (Eugene) Zhang worked at Columbia University as a postdoc. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as an assistant research scientist at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. From 2013 to 2017, he is a full professor and doctoral advisor at School of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University. He also serves as the academic leader of the“Jiangsu key laboratory of 3D printing equipment and manufacturing”. At present, he is a Professor in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, in Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interests focus on computer-aided medical diagnosis and biomedical image processing.

Wenbing Zhao

My primary expertise is in the field of dependable distributed system where I have published extensively on blockchain, Byzantine fault tolerance, intrusion tolerance, replication, and distributed consensus. My secondary expertise, which is also what I find extremely exciting currently, is in the field of smart and connected healthcare with particular interest in human motion recognition, human computer interface, computer vision, machine learning, and fuzzy Inference.

Huiyu Zhou

Prof. Huiyu (Joe) Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Prof. Zhou currently heads the Applied Algorithms and AI (AAAI) Theme and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab at University of Leicester. He was the Director of MSc Programme (2018-19), and currently is the Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning and a Member of Research Committee at School of Informatics. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Lecturer (2012-17) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast.

Prof. Zhou has published widely in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", "MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award", "ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award in the Area of Applications" and was shortlisted for "ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award" and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize".