Prof. Ardhendu Behera
Edge Hill University, UK

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.




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

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.




Prof. Shulong Li
Southern Medical University, China

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.