 | Prof. Shibin ZhangChengdu University of Information Technology, China ShibinZhang , Doctor of Engineering, Second-Class Professor and PhD Supervisor, currently serves as Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Chengdu University of Information Technology, and Director of Sichuan Key Laboratory of Advanced Cryptography Technology and System Security. His main teaching and research work focuses on the fields of network and information security, artificial intelligence and its security, quantum computing and secure communication. In the past five years, he has presided over or participated in more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program and major special projects of Sichuan Province. He has published over 150 academic papers, edited 2 monographs, obtained more than 60 authorized invention patents, participated in the formulation of 5 industrial or local standards, and won 8 provincial and ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards as well as 5 Teaching Achievement Awards. Title: Quantum Fuzzy Metric Learning |
| Assoc. Prof. Mustafa MisirDuke Kunshan University, China His research focus is automated algorithm design (machine learning and algorithm design), data science and operations research. His teaching interest is computer science while being involved with a variety of interdisciplinary courses, and he is concerned with industrial engineering and operations research besides computer engineering. He is particularly keen to teach courses on algorithms, data structures, programming, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. He has received prestigious academic awards and published more than 40 papers in well-known international conferences/journals such as Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He is an active participant of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society as a technical committee member while contributing to academia in the program committee of a diverse group of conferences such as AAAI and GECCO. In the meantime, he is carrying out reviewing duties for about 30 international journals along with editorial responsibilities. Title: Automated Algorithm Design: Data-Driven Algorithms |
 | Assoc. Prof. Yuanyuan Huang Chengdu University of Information Technology, China Yuanyuan Huang received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2004, 2007, and 2013, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He had been a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu. His main research interests include multimedia, big data and artificial intelligence. Title: Deep Learning-Driven Intelligent Video Coding |
| Assoc. Prof. Tao Wang University of Lyon, France WANG Tao, Associate Professor at Université Jean Monnet (France) and researcher at INSA Lyon; formerly Chair Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Tsinghua University, and KU Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on etiological diagnosis, healthcare system optimisation, operations research and applications of machine learning. He is currently the French principal investigator of HarmonicAI, a large-scale international healthcare collaboration funded under the Horizon Europe programme with a budget of over one million euros. He also leads a project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR, 2026–2030) and co-leads a French clinical research project (2025–2032). He has published more than 70 papers in leading international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the EJOR, the IJPR, and Eye (Nature). He has led or co-led more than 20 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the French National Research Agency, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, and other bodies. He has also provided decision support and training for the Hospices Civils de Lyon, China's National Health Commission, and several provincial and municipal health commissions. Title: Etiological diagnosis and prediction of uveitis relapses |
