Speakers

Prof. Yuanyan Tang

IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, AAIA Fellow

University of Macau, China

BIO: Yuanyan Tang  is a Chair Professor in Faculty of Science and Technology at University of Macau and Professor/Adjunct Professor/Honorary Professor at several institutes in China, USA, Canada, France, and Hong Kong.  His  current interests include wavelets, pattern recognition, image processing, and artificial intelligence. He has published more than 400 academic papers and is the author/coauthor of over 25 monographs/books/bookchapters. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on Wavelets, Multiresolution, and Information Processing (IJWMIP), and Associate Editors of several international journals. He is the Founder and Chair of pattern recognition committee in IEEE SMC. He has serviced as general chair, program chair, and committee member for many international conferences. Dr. Tang is the Founder and General Chair of the series International Conferences on Wavelets Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPRs). He is the Founder and Chair of the Macau Branch of International Associate of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Dr. Y. Y. Tang is a Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of IAPR.

Speech Title: My Experience with Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years and has been widely used. This is the result of the hard work of countless scientists and engineers for more than 70 years. The author has been engaged in the research of artificial intelligence for more than 40 years since the 1980s (1982), and has experienced several stages of development of artificial intelligence. In this report, the author uses popular language to introduce the basic principles of artificial intelligence, the main fields of artificial intelligence, and the work of artificial intelligence that the author has participated in for more than 40 years. This report also introduces some examples of artificial intelligence applications. Finally, the bottlenecks and directions of the development of artificial intelligence are discussed.

Prof. Weijia Jia

IEEE Fellow

Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai) and VP for Research of BNU- HKBU  United International College (UIC), China

BIO: BNU-UIC Institute of Aritificial Intelligence and Futuer Networks, Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai) and VP for Research of BNU- HKBU  United International College (UIC) and has been the Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He was the Chair Professor and the Deputy Director of State Kay Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau. He received BSc/MSc from Center South University, China in 82/84 and Master of Applied Sci./PhD from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium in 92/93, respectively, all in computer science. For 93-95, he joined German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine) as a research fellow. From 95-13, he worked in City University of Hong Kong as a professor.  His  contributions have been reconganized as optimal network routing and deployment; anycast and QoS routing, sensors networking, AI (knowledge relation extractions; NLP etc.) and edge computing. He has over 500 publications in the prestige international journals/conferences and research books and book chapters. He has received the best product awards from the Internatonal Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen) in 2011/2012 and the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 (list 2). He has served as area editor for various prestige international journals, chair and PC member/keynote speaker for many top international conferences. He is the Fellow of IEEE and the Distinguished Member of CCF.

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Prof. Xin Luo, IEEE Fellow

Southwest University, China

BIO: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Southwest University of China, Dean of School of Computer and Information Science and School of Software, IEEE Fellow, National High-level Leading Talents. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the School of Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology (UEST) in 2005, and his PhD degree from the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) in 2011. He has published more than 350 papers in international journals such as IEEE T-PAMI, T-KDE, T-NNLS, and international conferences such as WWW and ICDM (including 120 papers in Area I journals, 151 papers in IEEE Transactions/Journal, and 32 highly cited papers in ESI). With a cumulative impact factor of more than 1,000, Web of Science citations of more than 9,000, Google Scholar citations of more than 14,000, and an H-index of 74, he has presided over 7 national projects, more than 10 provincial and ministerial projects, and has been responsible for more than 50 million yuan of research funds. He has been granted 35 national invention patents, and has achieved the transformation of 27 authorised patents, generating economic benefits of more than RMB 200 million. He was awarded the first prize of Chongqing Natural Science (2019/first completer), the first prize of Chongqing Scientific and Technological Progress (2018/second completer), and the first prize of Wu Wenjun Scientific and Technological Progress in Artificial Intelligence of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society (2018/third completer), and other scientific and technological awards. He is currently an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, an internationally renowned journal in the field of neural networks, and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, a journal in the focus category of China's Action Plan for Excellence in Scientific and Technological Journals, and was awarded the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and was awarded the 2022-2024 Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the 2020 Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. From 2022, he will be selected as one of the top 2% scientists in the world by Stanford and Elsevier for ‘Lifetime Scientific Impact’ and Elsevier for ‘Highly Cited Scholars in China’.

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Prof. Pietro S. Oliveto

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

BIO: Pietro Oliveto received the Laurea degree and PhD degree in computer science respectively from the University of Catania, Italy in 2005 and from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2009. He has been EPSRC PhD+ Fellow (2009-2010) and EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2013) at the University of Birmingham, UK and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow (2013-2016) and EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2015-2020) at the University of Sheffield, UK. Before moving to SUSTech he was Chair in Algorithms at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK.His main research interest is the performance analysis, in particular the time complexity, of bio-inspired computation techniques including evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, artificial immune systems, hyper-heuristics and algorithm configuration. He is currently building a Theory of Artificial Intelligence Lab at SUSTech.

He has guest-edited journal special issues of Computer Science and Technology, Evolutionary Computation, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Algorithmica. He has co-Chaired the IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI) from 2015 to 2021 and has been co-program Chair of the ACM Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2021) and Theory Track co-chair at GECCO 2022 and GECCO 2023. He is part of the Steering Committee of the annual workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH), was Leader of the Benchmarking Working Group of the COST Action ImAppNIO, is member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

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