Prof. Jonathan M. Garibaldi, University of Nottingham

IEEE Fellow，Provost of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Jonathan M. Garibaldi is the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and a member of the University of Nottingham Executive Board (UEB). He serves as the Head of the Intelligent Modelling and Analysis (IMA) Research Group and was a Founding Director, alongside Prof. Richard Emes, of the Advanced Data Analysis Centre (ADAC). Garibaldi holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Bristol (1984), an MSc in 'Intelligent Systems' from the University of Plymouth (1991), and a PhD in 'Intelligent Techniques for Handling Uncertainty in the Assessment of Neonatal Outcome' from the University of Plymouth (1997). He joined the School of Computer Science in 2002, was appointed as a full Professor in 2012, and served in various administrative roles, including Admissions Tutor, Director of Teaching, and Head of School from 2016 to 2023. Garibaldi is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the leading journal in his main research field, from January 2017 to December 2022.

Prof. Min Chen, South China University of Technology

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and AAIA Fellow

Min Chen is a professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering at South ChinaUniversity of Technology. He was a full professor in School of Computer Science andTechnology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) since Feb. 2012.He is the director of Embedded and Pervasive Computing (EPIC) Lab at HUST. He wasan assistant professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul NationalUniversity since 2009. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia from 2006 to 2009. He isthe founding Chair of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities on BigData. He was General Co-Chair for IEEE CIT-2012, Tridentcom 2014, Mobimedia 2015,Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2012-Communications Theory Symposium, and Co-Chair ofIEEE ICC 2013-Wireless Networks Symposium and Symposium Chair of IEEEGlobecom 2022 eHealth, etc. He has 300+ publications, including IEEE JSAC, IEEETNNLS, AAAI, Advanced Materials、Science, Nature Communications, etc. He haspublished 12 books, including Big Data Analytics for Cloud/IoT and CognitiveComputing (2017) with Wiley. His Google Scholar Citations reached 4,7800+ with an h-index of 101. His top paper was cited 5,000+ times. He was selected as ESI Highly CitedResearcher from 2018 to 2024. He got IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2012, IEEECommunications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2017, the IEEE Jack NeubauerMemorial Award in 2019, and IEEE ComSoc APB Oustanding Paper Award in 2022. Hisresearch focuses on cognitive computing, 5G Networks, wearable computing, big dataanalytics, robotics, fabric computing, deep learning, emotion detection, and mobile edgecomputing, etc. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow and AAIA Fellow.

Prof. Chang Wen Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Chair Professor of Visual Computing, IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow

Chang Wen Chen is currently Chair Professor of Visual Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has previously served as an Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York from 2008 to 2021. From 2017 to 2020, He served as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007. He was on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996 and on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003.     

He received his BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE from University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.  He and his students have received nine (9) Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the State University of New York System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the Distinguished ECE Alumni Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow since 2004 and an SPIE Fellow since 2007.EE Fellow since 2004 and an SPIE Fellow since 2007.

Prof. Yuhui Shi, Southern University of Science 

and Technology, China

IEEE Fellow

Dr. Yuhui Shi is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SouthernUniversity of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Before joining SUSTech, he was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU),Suzhou, China, from January 2008 to August 2016, and was with the Electronic Data Systems Corporation(EDS), Indiana, USA, from October 1998 to December 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research. Dr. Shi co-authored a book on Swarm Intelligence together with Dr. James Kennedy and Dr. Russell C. Eberhart, and another book on ComputationalIntelligence: Concept to Implementation together with Dr. Russell C. Eberhart.