 | Prof. Jungong Han
Tsinghua University, China
Jungong Han is the Xinghua Chair Professor (tenured) at Tsinghua University, a national high-level overseas talent, and head of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Group on "Brain-inspired Intelligent Technologies" at the National Information Research Center. He returned to China in September 2024, and prior to that, he served as Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield (QS World Rank No. 82), UK. His research covers multimodal perception, brain-inspired machine learning and embodied intelligence. He has promoted the industrialization of 3 artificial intelligence technologies; his work on audio-visual retrieval won the CSI Innovation Award and contributed to an Emmy Award for an enterprise. His publications have received over 46,000 citations, with the highest single first-author paper exceeding 2,100 citations. He has been continuously selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists and Top 0.05% Highly Cited Researchers, and ranked 6th among UK scholars (1st at the University of Sheffield) in artificial intelligence by CSRankings. He received the 2024 Best Hot Paper Award fromScience China Information Sciences. He currently serves as an associate editor for multiple IEEE Transactions journals, leads 2 key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, serves as General Chair of BMVC 2025, and is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). TITLE: Paradigm Evolution of Multimodal Intelligence: From Disembodied Perception to Embodied Cognition |
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 | Prof. Xi Li
Zhejiang University, China
Jungong Han is the Xinghua Chair Professor (tenured) at Tsinghua University, a national high-level overseas talent, and head of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Group on "Brain-inspired Intelligent Technologies" at the National Information Research Center. He returned to China in September 2024, and prior to that, he served as Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield (QS World Rank No. 82), UK. His research covers multimodal perception, brain-inspired machine learning and embodied intelligence. He has promoted the industrialization of 3 artificial intelligence technologies; his work on audio-visual retrieval won the CSI Innovation Award and contributed to an Emmy Award for an enterprise. His publications have received over 46,000 citations, with the highest single first-author paper exceeding 2,100 citations. He has been continuously selected as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists and Top 0.05% Highly Cited Researchers, and ranked 6th among UK scholars (1st at the University of Sheffield) in artificial intelligence by CSRankings. He received the 2024 Best Hot Paper Award from Science China Information Sciences. He currently serves as an associate editor for multiple IEEE Transactions journals, leads 2 key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, serves as General Chair of BMVC 2025, and is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). TITLE: Image and Video World Model Generation Based on Multimodal Representations |
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 | Prof. Weiwei Xu
Zhejiang University, China
Weiwei Xu is a tenured professor at the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, and a MOE Changjiang Scholar. His research focuses on intelligent 3D perception, reconstruction and simulation. He has published over 80 CCF Class-A papers including *ACM TOG*, IEEE TVCG and CVPR, with 30 authorized Chinese-US patents. His technologies are applied in autonomous driving simulation, digital clothing and other fields. He leads more than 20 projects including key NSFC programs and MOST key R&D specials. TITLE: Efficient Reconstruction and Simulation Technologies for Embodied Intelligence |
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 | Prof. Zhendong Mao
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Zhendong Mao is a professor at USTC. He leads the NSFC Youth A Project and the major national sci-tech project on New Generation AI (2030). His research focuses on multimodal understanding & generation and cyberspace content security. He serves on the editorial boards of TMM and TCSVT. As a key completer, he has received the First Prize of Natural Science from CSIG, First Prize of Technological Invention from MOE, and Second Prize of National Technological Invention Award. TITLE: Secure and Controllable Intelligent Communication |
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 | Prof. Caifeng Shan
Nanjing University, China
Caifeng Shan is a professor at Nanjing University, a national high-level overseas talent and Changjiang Chair Professor, and Vice Dean of the School of Intelligence Science and Technology. His research covers computer vision, pattern recognition and medical AI. She has published over 200 papers and holds more than 100 global patents. He serves on the editorial boards ofnpj Digital Medicine,Pattern Recognition andIEEE J-BHI, and has received the Philips Invention Award. TITLE: Generative AI: Current State and Trends |
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 | Researcher. Changsheng XuInstitute of Automation, CAS, China
Changsheng Xu is a research professor at IA, CAS, a recipient of NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars and National Ten Thousand Talents Program leading talent. He is Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, CCF and CSIG, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He has published over 250 IEEE/ACM transaction papers and 150+ CCF Class-A conference papers, with 10+ best paper awards. As first completer, he won the CIE First Prize for Natural Science and Technological Invention, and the Wu Wenjun AI Technological Invention First Prize. TITLE: Research and Applications of Open-World Multimodal Large Models |
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| Prof. Yanjun Huang
Tongji University, China
Yanjun Huang is a tenured distinguished professor at Tongji University, Vice Dean of the School of Automotive and Energy Studies, and 2024 Changjiang Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on autonomous driving control and vehicle dynamics. He leads NSFC Excellent Youth Fund and joint key projects, and has received best paper awards from IEEE TIV, IEEE TVT and IFAC CEP. He serves as associate editor ofIEEE Trans. ITS, and won first place in the China Intelligent Connected Vehicle Algorithm Challenge. TITLE: Driving-Skill-Driven End-to-End Autonomous Driving |
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 | Researcher. Guoqi LiInstitute of Automation, CAS, China
Guoqi Li is a research professor at IA, CAS, Deputy Director of the National Key Lab of Brain Cognition and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, and NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar. He researches brain-inspired computing and brain-inspired large models, with 200+ papers inNature, its sub-journals and top AI conferences, and 25,000+ citations. He serves as Associate Editor for 7 journals including IEEE TNNLS, and has received the CAA First Prize of Natural Science. TITLE: Brain-Inspired Intelligence: Intersection and Reflections on Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence |
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| Prof. Zhuohong You
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Zhuhong You is a tenured second-level professor at NWPU, and recipient of NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars and National Distinguished Expert title. He researches pattern recognition and bioinformatics, with 280+ SCI papers including works inNature Communications,Advanced Science,TNNLS,TKDE andPLOS Computational Biology, an H-index of 76, and continuous inclusion in Elsevier Highly Cited Researchers and Stanford Top 2% Scientists. He has won the Provincial First Prize of Natural Science and MOE Second Prize of Natural Science. TITLE: AI for Science: New Paradigm and Cross-Domain Application Exploration of Biomedical Big Data Analysis |
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 | Prof. Xiangrong Zhang
Xidian University, China
Xiangrong Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of AI, Xidian University, and a national talent selectee. She focuses on intelligent remote sensing image interpretation, with 300+ academic papers, 3 monographs, and 50+ authorized invention patents. She has received the MOE First Prize of Natural Science and 3 Shaanxi Provincial First Prizes of Natural Science. She serves as associate editor ofIEEE TGRSand IEEE GRSL, and editorial board member ofRemote SensingandActa Automatica Sinica. She was a visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL in 2015–2016. TITLE: Intelligent Interpretation of Remote Sensing Images in Dynamic Open Environments |
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 | Assoc. Prof. Yukai Zhu
Beihang University, China
Yukai Zhu is an associate professor at Beihang University and a national young talent. He researches anti-disturbance control for aircraft, with multiple software-hardware platforms applied in aerospace engineering. He has published 40+ SCI papers, 30+ authorized patents, and leads 10+ projects including NSFC programs. He received the 2025 First Prize of Technological Invention from CSIT and the Gold Award of 2024 Nuremberg International Invention Exhibition. TITLE: Highly Disturbance-Rejection Intelligent Maneuver Control for Spacecraft |
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 | Researcher. Lin GaoInstitute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Lin Gao is a research professor at ICT, CAS, Director of the Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Center, and a position professor at UCAS. He researches 3D computer vision and computer graphics, with 100+ papers in SIGGRAPH,TPAMI andTVCG. He serves asIEEE TVCG editorial board member and CVPR Area Chair. He leads the NSFC Excellent Youth Fund and national key R&D programs, and has won the CCF First Prize of Technological Invention. TITLE: Digital Space Modeling Method Driven by Both Explicit Geometric Representation and Implicit Generative Models |
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 | Prof. Xiaofeng Liu
Hohai University
Xiaofeng Liu is a professor and Dean of the School of AI and Automation, Hohai University, and Deputy Director of Jiangsu Key Lab of Special Robot Technology. He researches human-robot interaction and intelligent robots, and leads major national AI 2030 projects and other key programs. He has published 100+ papers includingIEEE TRO,Science China andIEEE SMC Magazine, and received the Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Award and Shandong Provincial Technological Invention Award. TITLE: Emotional Intelligent Interaction and Applications of Embodied Companion Robots |
