 | Prof. Jianping Gou, Southwest University, China Jianping Gou received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2012. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with The University of Sydney. Now, he is currently a professor and doctoral Supervisor in College of Computer and Information Science, College of Software, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. His current research interests are artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dr. Gou has been intensively working on developing novel machine learning theories and efficient deep learning algorithms for more than ten years. His research has resulted in more than 150 publications on top-tier journals and conferences. He served as a Section Editor of Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, a Guest Editor of Mathematics, a Guest Editor of Frontiers in Physics, Editorial Board of Mathematics, and Associate Editor of Cognitive Robotics. He served as a reviewer of many international journals such as IJCV, TPAMI, TNNLS, TIP, TKDE, TMM, TKDD, and TCYB, and a program committee member for several international conferences such as IJCAI, ECCV, and ICME. He is also a Senior member of IEEE, a Senior member of both CCF (China Computer Federation), and a Senior member of CSIG (China Society of Image and Graphics). |
 | Prof. Shiqian Wu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China Dr. Shiqian Wu is a Professor at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Deputy Director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), and Director of the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial Systems. Dr. Wu received his Bachelor's (1985) and Master's (1988) degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, and his Ph.D. (2001) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Before joining WUST, he served as an Assistant Professor, Lecturer, and Associate Professor at HUST from 1988 to 1997. From 2000 to 2014, he worked as a Researcher or Research Scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Prof. Wu has co-authored two books and over 280 scientific publications (including book chapters and journal/conference papers). He has been recognized as one of China's Most Cited Researchers (2015–2022, Elsevier) and received the 2015 ICIP Best 10% Paper Award and the 2020 ICIEA Best Paper Finalist Award. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, robotics, and artificial intelligence. |
 | Prof. Mingguang Shan, Harbin Engineering University, China Mingguang Shan, Ph.D., Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor, is the leader of the Optoelectronic Information Intelligent Processing Technology Team and the director of the provincial "Advanced Intelligent Perception Technology Collaborative Innovation Center." He is a council member of the Mechanical Measurement Instruments Branch of the China Instrument and Control Society, a member of the Holography and Optical Information Processing Committee of the Chinese Optical Society, a member of the Optical Testing Professional Committee of the Chinese Optical Society, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the China Instrument and Control Society, and a member of the First Young Experts Committee on Advanced Optical Manufacturing of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering. His main research areas include optoelectronic detection and instrumentation, computational imaging technology, and high-speed image/video processing technology. He has received two second-class provincial natural science awards (ranked 1st and 4th in contribution), holds over 40 authorized invention patents, and has published more than 110 academic papers in SCI-indexed journals. |
 | Prof. Yang Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China Dr. Yang Zhao is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, currently serving as the Director of the Weihai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Photoacoustic Detection and Sensing Technology. His primary research focuses on cross-medium (air-sea) detection and communication technology, as well as ultrasonic testing and signal processing technology. He has led or participated in numerous significant research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Science Fund, NSFC General Program, International Science & Technology Cooperation Program (Ministry of Science and Technology), Key Technology Project for Major Accident Prevention in National Work Safety, Shandong Provincial Natural Science Youth Fund, Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation General Program, Shandong Outstanding Young Scientist Award Fund, Shandong Key R&D Program, Shandong Innovation Industrial Cluster Special Project, and Shandong Major Innovation Engineering Project. |