Prof. Yuemin Zhu

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France

Prof. Yuemin ZHU is Research Director of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) of France at INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) Lyon. He carried out a broad spectrum of research activities, from the development of basic signal and image processing methods to their application to industrial nondestructive inspection and medical imaging. He published over 360 papers on image processing and medical imaging, including 168 papers in peered international journals. He was the recipient of French “Knight of the Order of Academic Palms“ award in 2016. He served on editorial boards of several international journals such as Sensors, IEEE Access, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B, and Journal of Medical Engineering.

Prof. Changgen Peng

Guizhou University, China

Dr. Peng Changgen is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Guizhou University, serving as the academic leader in his discipline. He is an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, a core expert of Guizhou Province, and a provincial-level expert. He is also a standing committee member of the 9th Guizhou Provincial Association for Science and Technology. His main research areas include big data security and privacy protection, cryptography, and information security. Currently, he holds several prestigious positions, including council member of the China Cryptography Society, chairman of the Guiyang Branch of the China Computer Federation, president of the Guizhou Computer Society, and president of the Guizhou Commercial Cryptography Industry Association. He also serves as a legislative expert for the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress.

Professor Peng is the associate editor of the 9th edition of the "Journal of Communications" and has served or is serving as an editorial board member for several journals, including "Journal of Network and Information Security", "Information Network Security", "Cyberspace Security", "Information Security Research",and "Secure Communication and Information Security". He has led six projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including one key project and one general project), along with several other projects. His accolades include a second place award and a third place award for the Scientific and Technological Progress of Guizhou Province, two Second Prizes for Natural Science of Guizhou Province, one Second Prize for Higher Education Teaching Achievement of Guizhou Province, and one China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Innovation Award. He has also been honored with the National Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award and the title of Guizhou Province's First Outstanding Master's Supervisor.

Prof. Zhaohong Deng

Jiangnan University, China

Professor Deng Zhaohong has been honored with several prestigious titles and awards, including the Jiangsu Province 333 High-Level Talent Training Project (Second Level) in 2022 (Mid-aged and Young Scientific and Technological Leader), the Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Young Scientist Fund in 2014, and the Ministry of Education’s New Century Excellent Talent in 2012. He is a Distinguished Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF) (since 2019), a Senior Member of IEEE (since 2014), and a Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (since 2023). Professor Deng has led over 20 research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key R&D Program, the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Foundation, as well as various industry-sponsored collaborative projects. He currently serves as the Associate Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Human–Machine Hybrid Software and Media Technology. Additionally, he has held (or currently holds) editorial roles, including Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor (Lead Guest Editor), for several international journals such as Neurocomputing and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. His past and present academic service includes roles as Deputy Director/Executive Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Jiangsu Computer Society, Executive Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Multivalued Logic and Fuzzy Logic, Executive Committee Member of the CCF Big Data Expert Committee, Executive Committee Member of the CCF Bioinformatics Committee, Member of the CAAI Technical Committee on Granular Computing and Knowledge Discovery, and Member of the Chinese Association of Automation Technical Committee on Hybrid Intelligence. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, biological computing, and the theory and applications of large-scale models.

Prof. Huang Keke

Central South University, China

Ph.D. Supervisor, M.S. Supervisor, Associate Dean of the School of Automation, and Concurrently Associate Dean of the School of Excellence in Engineering. He has been selected for several prestigious programs, including the Hunan Provincial Leading Talent in Technological Innovation, the Hunan Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, the China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Lift Program, the Huxiang Young Talents Program, and the Central South University Innovation-Driven Young Talent Program. His awards include the National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class), the Natural Science Award (First Class) from the Chinese Association of Automation, the Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the IEEE TCSDM Young Professional Award, and inclusion in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023 list. Research Areas: Complex Systems and Complex Networks; Big Data Analysis and Processing; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Intelligent Manufacturing and Industrial Internet.