Prof. Ardhendu Behera
Edge Hill University, UK

Bio: Prof. Ardhendu Behera is a Professor of Computer Vision & AI and co-director/founder of the Intelligent Visual Computing Research Centre. His research focuses on deep learning, computer vision, and multimodal AI, with applications in automotive, defence and security, and healthcare domains. As PI, he has led projects worth over £2M in the past three years, advancing AI-driven analysis of visual content, human behaviour, and activity recognition. He is a member of the British Computer Society, AAAI & IEEE, and a Fellow of HEA UK. Prof Behera is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and has published high-quality journals/conference papers, many of which are interdisciplinary. He has delivered keynotes and is involved in various outreach activities. His pioneering research in dementia monitoring, integrating social robotics and multimodal AI, has been featured by global media, including BBC News, The Times, The Sun, ITV, and more.




Prof. Fu Wang
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Bio: Dr. Wang is currently a Professor of School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Second Affiliated Hospital at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He has been selected as the Class A Young Top Talents of Xi'an Jiaotong University, the recipient of Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Youth Scholars, the Chair Professor of the "Minjiang Scholars" of Fujian Province, and the Associated editor and editorial board of BMC Biology、BMC Cancer. Prof. Wang's main research interests focus on bio-optical imaging and sensing. He has successively hosted more than 10 national and provincial level funds, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (4 projects), the Ministry of Science and Technology Foreign Experts Program, the sub project of the National "973 Plan", the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Programs for General, Key, and Outstanding Young Scholars), and the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Activity Selection Funding Project for Returned Students (Excellent Category, 2 Projects). In recent years, as corresponding author, he has published more than 60 articles including Coordination Chemistry Reviews、ACS Nano、Nano Letters、Biosensors and Bioelectronics、Analytical Chemistry among them. Moreover, he has applied /authorized more than 10 Chinese invention patents. He has won the first prize in Science and Technology in Shaanxi Province's high education institutions (2022, 2016) and the third prize in Science and Technology in Shaanxi Province (2017) as the first achievement person.




Assoc. Prof. Aiping Liu
University of Science and Technology of China, China

Bio: Aiping Liu received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2009, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2011 and 2016, respectively. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Pacific Parkinson's Research Center at UBC. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. She has published over 100 scientific articles in prestigious journals and conferences. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Her research interests broadly include biomedical signal processing and neuroimaging analysis.




Assoc. Prof. Lin Bai
Chang'an University, China

Bio: Lin Bai (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electronic information science and technology from Northwest University, Xi’an, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree in electronic science and technology from Xidian University, Xi’an, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi‘an, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electronic and Control Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an. His research interests include machine learning and remote sensing image processing.




Assoc. Prof. Yanchao Gong
Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Bio: Yanchao Gong received the B.E. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China, in 2009, the M.E. degree in Signal and Information Processing and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is also the Deputy Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Court Science Electronic Information Experimental Research Center and the Xi’an Key Laboratory of Image Processing Technology and Applications for Public Security. His research interests include video coding, video forensics, and educational informization.




Prof. Shulong Li
Southern Medical University, China

Bio: Li Shulong, full professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in Southern Medical University, Ph.D majored in Pure Mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University, visiting scholar of National Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in Taiwan and Southwest Medical Center of University of Texas (UTSW) in USA. She has presided over a number of general projects and youth projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), seedling raising project of Guangdong Provincial Department of education and other projects; and has published more than 30 high-level papers, including the journal Medical Image Analysis (MIA). Research interests include machine learning and deep learning, medical image analysis and medical artificial intelligence. Some progress has been made in AI assisted diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and pancreatic cancer.




Prof. Yun Zheng
Yunnan Agricultural University, China

Bio: Yun Zheng is a professor of bioinformatics at Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China. He was a professor of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan, China, from 2013 to 2022. He was an associate professor of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, from 2009 to 2013. He received his B.Eng. in Manufacturing Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Zheng was a research fellow of National University of Singapore from 2005 to 2006, and a post-doctoral research associate of Washington University in St. Louis from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Zheng is interested in computational methods related to microRNA-guided gene regulations, gene ontology, signal pathway, genomics, transcriptomics, machine learning, and theoretical foundations of computational learning. He published a book Computational Non-coding RNA Biology (Academic Press) and over 90 papers in journals, such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Plant Cell, which received more than 5500 citations. He was the chair of the 29th International conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2018) and the 20th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2021). He is an associate editor of Frontiers in Genetics, an editor of Genes and PLOS ONE. He received two grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, two key grants from Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and one grant from Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, and joined two key grants of Ministry of Science and Technology of China.




Assoc. Prof. Samir Brahim Belhaouari
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Bio: Dr. Samir Brahim Belhaouri obtained a master's degree in Telecommunications and Network from the Institut Nationale Polytechnique of Toulouse, France, in 2000. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2006. Presently, he serves as an associate professor at the University of Hamad Bin Khalifa, Qatar Foundation, within the Division of Information and Communication Technologies, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU. Throughout the years, Dr. Belhaouri has held various research and teaching positions at institutions including Innopolis University in Russia, Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia, the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the University Technology PETRONAS in Malaysia, and EPFL Federal Swiss School in Switzerland. His research interests span a diverse range of areas, including Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and Image & Signal Processing (with applications in Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Forecasting). His multidisciplinary background in Mathematics and Computer Science contributes to his comprehensive research endeavors.