Professor Qiang Yang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

IEEE Fellow

Bio:Professor Qiang Yang received his BSc. degree in Astrophysics from Peking University, MSc degree in Astrophysics, MSc in Computer Science and PhD in Computer Science at University of Maryland, USA.

Since joining PolyU on 1 April 2025, Professor Yang holds multiple roles, including Director of PolyU Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of the University, and half-time Chair Professor of AI in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

He is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and a fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IAPR and CAAI. He was the Founding Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) and of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IEEE TBD).

Professor  Badong Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

National level talents 

BIO:Badong Chen is a professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi 'an Jiaotong University and a Yangtze River scholar of the Ministry of Education. In 2008, he graduated from Tsinghua University with a doctorate in computer science. The research fields include machine learning, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, and robotics. He has published more than 300 academic papers in internationally renowned journals and conferences, and the papers have been cited more than 15,000 times. More than 30 national invention patents were authorized and 6 academic monographs were published. He was included in the list of top 2 % scientists in the world and Elsevier 's list of China 's highly cited scholars. It won the first prize of natural science of the Ministry of Education, the first prize of natural science of the Chinese Society of Automation, and the young scientist award of the Chinese Society of Automation. He is the director of Chinese Cognitive Science Association and the editorial board member of IEEE TNNLS / TCDS / TCSVT. He presided over the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the key support projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the key projects of the joint fund, the 973 plan project, the national key research and development plan project and other scientific research projects.