Professor Qiang Yang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

IEEE Fellow, ACM 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 Ning Ding, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

National High-level talents

BIO:Professor Ding Ning is a Tier-2 Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is recognized as a National High-Level Talent and serves as the Chief Scientist for the National Key Project on New Generation Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Ding received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. from Keio University, Japan, in 2012. Following his graduation, he joined Toshiba Corporation in Japan as a Researcher. He returned to China in 2020 to join Alibaba Group as an Algorithm Director, before joining the School of Artificial Intelligence at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2023. His research primarily focuses on Large Language Models (LLMs), Embodied AI, and Human-Computer Interaction. He has published one English monograph and one textbook, and holds over 10 international patents. Prof. Ding has presided over major research initiatives, including the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence" project under the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Program, as well as key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has pioneered a new paradigm for the scaling laws of large models, developed technologies for the rapid integration of large models with domain-specific knowledge, and created the industry's first low-computation custom wake-word technology. These innovations have been widely adopted by renowned global companies across China, the United States, and Japan.

Professor  Jiahu Qin, University of Science and Technology of China, China

National High-level talents

BIO:Jiahu Qin, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Deputy Dean at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He has served as a Professor at USTC since 2015. His research focuses on distributed decision-making and control of multi-agent systems, as well as security and control of cyber-physical systems. He has chaired the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and a key subject under the Science and Technology Innovation 2030 – "New Generation Artificial Intelligence" Major Project.

He was awarded the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2019, the First Prize of CAA Natural Science Award and the First Prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Award in 2021, and the First Prize of CAA Technical Invention Award in 2023. He also received the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Best Conference Paper Award. He has published more than 80 papers in leading international journals including Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has published 2 English monographs with Springer. He currently serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the CAA, and is on the editorial board of Acta Automatica Sinica and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Professor  Han Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

National High-level talents

BIO:  Hu Han is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and 2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2018, he carried out post-doctoral research at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.

His main research interests include video communications and on-device artificial intelligence. He has published more than 100 papers in IEEE transactions and CCF-A-ranked journals/conferences, such as Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, ICML and NeurIPS.He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, Young Beijing Scholar, the Second-class Prize of Beijing Natural Science Award (1st contributor), and the First-class Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (2nd contributor). He has also won over ten best-paper awards from international journals and conferences, including IEEE TCSVT 2019, IEEE TMM 2023, and IEEE Multimedia Magazine 2015.He has presided over multiple national-level projects, such as the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Category A) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (formerly the Distinguished Young Scientists Fund), the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the Key Project of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.He serves as a member of the overall expert group for the 14th Five-Year Key Special Project “Multimodal Networks and Communications” under the Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as a member of several expert groups in the national defense field. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, and an Editorial Board Member of journals including IEEE TMC, IEEE TMM, and Ad Hoc Networks.