| Prof. Wei GaoInstitute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wei Gao is a professor at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as a member of multiple national standardization working groups and professional committees of academic societies. He has long been engaged in research on robot visual positioning and navigation technology. He has published more than 50 high-level papers in relevant fields and obtained over 20 authorized invention patents, boasting extensive research experience and technological achievements in intelligent perception, precise positioning, autonomous navigation and other related directions. Speech Title: Monocular Vision Navigation for Mobile Robots in Unknown Environments |
| Prof. Lei YangZhengzhou University, China Lei Yang is a Research Fellow and Ph.D. Supervisor at Zhengzhou University and an IEEE Senior Member. He has been selected as a Scientific and Technological Innovation Talent of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province and a recipient of the Young Scientists Program of the Henan Joint Fund for Technological Research and Development, and has been honored as the Excellent Master’s Thesis Advisor of Henan Province. He has also been consecutively listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists Annual Science Influence Ranking in 2024 and 2025.His research focuses on robot vision perception and intelligent detection. He has published over 50 high-quality SCI-indexed papers as first or corresponding author in top-tier journals such as IEEE TITS, IEEE TIM, and IEEE TMRB, including two ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has received three First Prizes of the Excellent Scientific and Technological Paper Award from the Henan Provincial Department of Education. In addition, he has led six national and provincial-level projects, including the General Program and Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as a member of the CCF Technical Committee on Intelligent Robotics, the CSIG Technical Committee on Visual Inspection, and the Youth Working Committee of the CAA. Speech Title: Research and Progress on Recognition Methods for Mixed Wafer Map Defects |
| Prof. Xiuli ChaiHenan University, China Prof. Xiuli Chai is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Henan University, and a member of the IEEE. Her research primarily focuses on multimedia information security and AI security, with particular emphasis on image content privacy protection, multimedia tampering detection, and adversarial examples. She has served as Principal Investigator of one project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one project under the China Postdoctoral Special Funding Program, and has led multiple provincial-level research projects.Prof. Chai has published over 50 SCI/EI-indexed papers as first author or corresponding author in prestigious domestic and international journals, includingIEEE Signal Processing Letters,Information Sciences, andSignal Processing. Her work has garnered over 3,000 citations on Google Scholar, and she has been recognized with 11 ESI Highly Cited Papers. She is a recipient of the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of Henan Province.She serves as a Communications Peer Reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and a Communications Peer Reviewer for the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education. She is a member of the Technical Committee on Digital Media Forensics and Security of the China Society of Image and Graphics, a member of the Health Data and Digital Medicine Division of the China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care, a researcher at the Zhishan Comprehensive Research Institute of the Henan University Alumni Association (USA), and a member of the IEEE. Speech Title: VisualContentPrivacyProtectionPreservingAvailability |
| Prof. Zhang FenghuiWest Anhui University, China Ph.D., Professor, member of the Strategic Advisory Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of Anhui Province, and Leading Talent of Lu'an City. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Ireland in 2013, and at the University of Alberta, Canada from 2016 to 2017. He is an IEEE member, an Editorial Board Member of theInternational Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and a Technical Program Committee member of the International Conference on Information Technology and Biomedicine Engineering (ICITBE). He serves as a reviewer for numerous journals, including IEEE IoT-J, TVT, TCCN, TNSE, TComm, TNSM, WCL, CL, as well as for IEEE GLOBECOM, VTC, and other international conferences. He has led 12 research projects, including those at the provincial and ministerial level. He has authored or co-authored over 40 academic papers in journals such as IEEE IoT-J, TVT, TCCN, TNSE, TComm, TNSM, WCL, and CL, accumulating over 400 citations. He has filed or been granted over 20 patents. He has led six provincial/ministerial-level teaching projects, published six teaching papers, and led his team to numerous awards in competitions such as the International College Student Innovation Competition and the "Challenge Cup." |
| Assoc. Prof. Lei ChenShandong University, China Lei Chen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include signal processing and computer vision, visual quality assessment and pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the principal investigator of projects granted from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He has published more than 50 papers on top international journals and conferences in recent years including IEEE TIP, Signal Process., ICME, etc. He was awarded the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University. He served for many international conferences including the ICIGP 2021, IoTCIT 2022, MLCCIM 2022, ICCEE 2023 as Program Chair, Technical Chair or Publicity Chair. Speech Title: Multi-Modal Spatio-Temporal Modeling Methods for Video Anomaly Detection |
