| Prof. Yaochu JinIEEE Fellow Member of Academia Europaea Westlake University, China Yaochu Jin is presently Chair Professor of AI, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, and Director of the Trustworthy and General AI Laboratory, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. Prior to that, he was the “Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence” at the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany from 2021 to 2023, and Surrey Distinguished Chair and Professor in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. from 2010 to 2021. His current main research interests include trustworthy industrial AI, brain-like embodied intelligence, and AI for arts and sciences. Prof. Jin was the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. He has been named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate every year since 2019. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of IEEE. |
| Prof. Yugang JiangIEEE/IAPR/CCF Fellow Fudan University, China Yugang Jiang is Vice President of Fudan University, concurrently Dean of the School of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing and Dean of the Institute of Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence. He is a Changjiang Distinguished Professor and an IEEE/IAPR/CCF Fellow. He has long been engaged in research on multimodal artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence. He serves as the leader of an Innovative Research Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multimodal Embodied Intelligence. He has led the National Science and Technology Major Project on New-Generation Artificial Intelligence and the National Major Scientific Research Instrument Development Project. He has published more than 300 papers and authored three books in Chinese and English, includingArtificial Intelligence: Data and Model Security. Multiple invented technologies have been transferred to well-known enterprises with remarkable results. The open-source datasets and toolkits he developed are widely adopted, and the application systems he built have repeatedly supported key national missions. As the first-ranked contributor, he received the Second Prize of the 2023 National Natural Science Award and four provincial and ministerial first prizes. His honors include the National Innovation and Excellence Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award, the Xplorer Prize, and the inaugural Shanghai Outstanding Talent Award. |
| Prof. Xinwang LiuIEEE Senior Member、CCF Member National University of Defense Technology, China Xinwang Liu is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). He is a recipient of national-level talent programs. His research interests include machine learning and data mining. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Major Project of Science and Technology Innovation 2030, and is a core member of an NSFC Innovation Research Group (Class A). He has published over 150 papers in CCF A-class journals and conferences, including 20 ESI Highly Cited Papers. His Google Scholar citations exceed 27,000, and he has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists for four consecutive years (2022–2025). He serves as an Associate Editor (AE) for international journals such as IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-NNLS, and IEEE T-CYB, as well as an Area Chair for international conferences including ICML and NeurIPS. His research has received numerous awards, including the First Prize in Natural Science from the China Computer Federation (CCF, 2025), the First Prize in Natural Science (Wu Wenjun Award) from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, 2024), the First Prize in Science and Technology Progress from Beijing Municipality (2024), the First Prize in Natural Science from Hunan Province (2014, 2021), and the Second Prize in Natural Science from the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG, 2024, 2025), among others. |
