Prof. Ji Zhang

University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Professor Ji Zhang is a full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia. He is an IET Fellow, BCS Fellow, RSA Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, Australian Endeavour Fellow, Queensland International Fellow (Australia), and Izaak Walton Killam Scholar (Canada). He has extensive working experience in Singapore, Canada, Australia, the USA, and China over the past twenty years. He has published over 290 papers in major peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, including TKDE, TKDD, TIST, AAAI, IJCAI, VLDB, CIKM, SIGKDD, ICDE, ICDM, and WWW. Professor Zhang has received three best paper awards in WWW workshop 2021, DIKW 2021, and WISE 2019, as well as the student travel award of ICDM 2006. Professor Zhang has previously held visiting professor positions at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore (2022), Michigan State University, USA (2010), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2011).

Prof. Xiao Wu

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Currently, I am the Assistant Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. I am an Associate Professor from 2009. Now, I am a Visiting Associate Professor at School of Information and Computer Science atUniversity of California, Irvine (UCI) under the supervision of Prof. Ramesh Jain. I received my Ph.D at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo and Prof. Qing Li. I was a Senior Research Associate in the Video Retrieval Group (VIREO), City University of Hong Kong. I was a visiting scholar at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, under advisor Alexander G. Hauptmann between April 2006 and April 2007. I received my B.E. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Yunnan University, China. I was with Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, between January 2001 and July 2002. From 2003 to 2004, I was with the Department of Computer Science of the City University of Hong Kong, as a Research Assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Victor C. S. Lee.

Prof. Xin Yang

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China

Professor Xin Yang serves as a Doctoral Supervisor and Associate Dean of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China, and Director of the Sichuan Collaborative Innovation Center for Internet Finance Innovation and Regulation. He has been selected for the "World's Top 2% Most Cited Scientists" list and is a recipient of the Guanghua Talent Program (Category A). He serves as Vice Chairman of the Chengdu Association of Science and Technology Youth Federation. He is a Distinguished Member and Distinguished Communicator of the China Computer Federation (CCF), Secretary General of the CCF Chengdu Chapter, and served as Chair of the YOCSEF Chengdu Academic Committee (2022–2023). He is a Standing Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Digital Finance, an Executive Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Big Data, an Executive Committee Member of the CCF Large Model Forum, and a Member of the CCF Communication Working Committee as well as a CCF Communication Ambassador. He is a Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and a Standing Committee Member of the CAAI Technical Committee on Granular Computing and Knowledge Discovery, and also serves as a Standing Director of the Sichuan Artificial Intelligence Society.

Prof. Xiaolin Qin

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Xiaolin Qin is a Professor and Deputy Chief Engineer at the Chengdu Institute of Computer Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also a Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Doctoral Supervisor. He is a Senior Member of CCF, CICC, and IEEE. His research focuses on automated reasoning, spatial intelligence, and domain-specific large language models for industrial sectors.Prof. Qin has been recognized as a recipient of the National Talent Program, the Sichuan Tianfu Qingcheng Program for Scientific and Technological Innovation Leaders, a Provincial Academic and Technical Leader, and a recipient of both the Provincial Top Young Talent and Distinguished Young Scholar awards, as well as the CAS Western Young Scholar Award. He has received a provincial/ministerial first-class award, the Second Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the CAS President's Award. He has led over 10 major research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program, the CAS STS Program, and the Sichuan Provincial Major Special Project on Artificial Intelligence. He has published more than 30 high-quality papers in top journals and conferences such as IEEE TIP, ACL, CVPR, and ICCV.

Title: Large Models Cross-domain Deep Perception: Spatial Intelligence to Embodied Intelligence

Abstract: TBD

Prof. Jidong Zhai (To-be-confirmed Speaker)

Tsinghua University, China

Jidong Zhai is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Professor of Stanford University (2015-2016) and a Visiting Scholar of MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia) in 2013. He is the general secretary of ACM SIGHPC China. His current research interests include parallel computing, compiler, programming language, and performance evaluation. He has published in prestigious conferences (such as SC, ICS, PPOPP, ASPLOS, MICRO, OSDI, ATC, and PACT) and top-tier journals (such as IEEE TC and IEEE TPDS). His research received 2021 Best Paper Award for IEEE TPDS, Best Paper Award at CLUSTER'21, Best Student Paper Award at ICS’21, Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ICDCS’20, and Best Paper Finalist at SC’14. He has served as a PC member for a number of international conferences including SC, ICS, PPoPP, IPDPS, ICPP, Cluster, and PACT. He was a program co-chair of NPC 2018. He is currently on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO). He is the advisor of Tsinghua Student Cluster Team. The team led by him has achieved 13 international champions in student supercomputing challenges at SC, ISC, and ASC. In 2015 and 2018, the team led by him swept all three champions. He has got a number of awards including NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar (2022), First Prize of CCF Natural Science Award (2021), CCF-IEEE CS Young Computer Scientist Award (2020), IEEE TPDS Award for Editorial Excellence (2019), NSFC Young Career Award (2017), and CCF outstanding doctoral dissertation Award (2010).