 | Prof. Junchi YanShanghai Jiao Tong University, China Junchi Yan is a Professor and Assistant Director with School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Before that, he was a full-time Senior Research Staff Member with IBM Research and later an affiliated consultant Senior Researcher with AWS AI Lab in total for 10 years. His research interests include machine learning and AI4Science. He is the Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI, Pattern Recognition etc. He is a Fellow of IAPR, AAIA, NAAI, IET. He received the IEEE CS AI'10 to Watch Award, IEEE CIS Early Career Award, and CVPR 2024 Best Paper Candidate Award. Six of his graduated PhDs now are faculties of top universities in China i.e. Fudan, SJTU and USTC. |
| Prof. Ben NiuDalian University of Technology, China Ben Niu was born in Shandong Province, China, on 2 May 1982. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Northeastern University in 2013. He is currently a professor at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests are switched systems, stochastic systems, adaptive control, intelligent control, and their applications. |
| Prof. Weihua XuSouthwest University, China Weihua Xu is the doctoral supervisor and postdoctoral co-supervisor of Southwest University. He was a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Macau University of Science and Technology. He has been recognized as a Chongqing Academic and Technical Leader, a Chongqing Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teacher, and a nominee for the Chongqing Top Ten Youth in Science and Technology Award. He concurrently serves as a Senior Member of the International Rough Set Society and a Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). Within CAAI, he holds several positions, including Vice Chair of the Knowledge Engineering and Distributed Intelligence Committee, Secretary-General of the Granular Computing and Knowledge Discovery Committee, and Standing Committee Member of the Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals Committee. He is also a Standing Council Member of the Intelligent Decision and Game Theory Branch of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics. Furthermore, he is an Associate Editor for the international SCI journals International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. He has been consecutively listed in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" ranking from 2022 to 2024. |
