Prof Erik CambriaNanyang Technological University, SingaporeBiography: Erik Cambria is the Founder of SenticNet, a Singapore-based company offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, where he also holds the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining NTU, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) and HP Labs India (Bangalore) and earned his PhD through a joint programme between the University of Stirling and MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on neurosymbolic AI for explainable natural language processing in domains like sentiment analysis, dialogue systems, and financial forecasting. He is recipient of several awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Career Award, was listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of many top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in various international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and senior program committee member. |
Prof. Jin LiGuangzhou University, ChinaBiography: Dr. Li Jin, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Dean/Director of the Science and Technology Department of Guangzhou University, and Executive Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. The main research areas are artificial intelligence security, privacy computing, and blockchain. Served as the Director of Guangdong Big Data Security and Privacy Protection Engineering Center, Director of the Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence Security of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, and Member of the Academic Committee of Guangzhou University. I have served as a review expert for key general project meetings of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology multiple times. Served as the editor in chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems, a C-class key journal recommended by CCF, as well as the deputy editor in chief of multiple top journals such as IEEE TDSC and the chairman of several internationally renowned conferences. I have published over 30 papers in top journals such as USENIX Security, INFOCOM, and SIGMOD, as well as TKDE, TDSC, TIFS, and TPDS. I have also published 5 conference proceedings and journals, and have been cited more than 15000 times by Google Scholar. I have been selected as a highly cited scholar globally, and multiple papers have won the Best Paper Award at international academic conferences. |
Prof. Yang XiangSwinburne University of Technology, AustraliaBiography: Professor Yang Xiang received his PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University, Australia. He is currently a full professor and the Dean of Digital Research & Innovation Capability Platform, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include cyber security, which covers network and system security, data analytics, distributed systems, and networking. He is also leading the Blockchain initiatives at Swinburne. In the past 20 years, he has been working in the broad area of cyber security, which covers network and system security, AI, data analytics, and networking. He has published more than 300 research papers in many international journals and conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Briefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and ACM Computing Surveys. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is the Coordinator, Asia for IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. |