Speakers

Qing Li

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor and Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management, conceptual data modeling, social media, Web services, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 500 publications in these areas, with over 64,400 citations and H-index of 103 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Computer & Education: X Realitty (CEXR) by Elsevier, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Data Science and Engineering (DSE), and World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat in the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ER, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE.

Qun Jin

Waseda University, Japan

Qun Jin is a professor in the Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. He has been extensively engaged in research works in the fields of computer science, information systems, and human informatics, with a focus on understanding and supporting humans through convergent research. His recent research interests cover behavior and cognitive informatics, health informatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, LLM and generative AI, AI agents, big data, blockchain, trustworthy platforms for data federation, sharing, and utilization, cyber-physical-social systems, and applications in healthcare and learning support. He authored or co-authored several monographs and more than 460 refereed papers published in academic journals and international conference proceedings. He is a foreign fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) and a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). More information can be found at https://researchmap.jp/jinqun/?lang=en .

Qin Zhang

Communication University of China, China

Prof. Qin Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, in 1990. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Image Processing Laboratory of the University of British Columbia, Chief Technology Officer for Signal Processing at Wavetek Corporation, Senior Technical Advisor in the Communications Division of Motorola Inc. in the United States (where he received the Motorola Invention Award), the first Director of the Sino-German Software Technology Institute, and the Founding Dean of the TCL Industrial Research Institute. He is currently the Director of the Key Laboratory of Media Audio & Video, Ministry of Education, Communication University of China, and a member of the Academic Committee of the National Key Laboratory of Converged Media. His academic appointments include: Expert Reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chairman of the AVS Industry Alliance, Chairman of the TD-SCDMA Forum, and Adjunct Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, among others. He has led and completed three Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as more than 20 major projects under the National Science and Technology Support Program and other ministerial-level programs. In 1987, he was awarded the UBC Fellowship. In 1997, he received the U.S. "Outstanding Research and Scholar" award under the talent program.

Sang-Woon Jeon

Hanyang University ERICA, South Korea

Sang-Woon Jeon received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2011. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Andong National University, Andong, South Korea. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include wireless communication, evolutionary computation, and machine learning. Dr. Jeon received the Haedong Young Scholar Award in 2017, sponsored by the Haedong Foundation and presented by the Korea Institute of Communications and Information Science (KICS), the Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2015, and the Best Thesis Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in 2012.