Prof. Weijia Jia, Beijing Normal University (BNU-Zhuhai), China

IEEE Fellow

Prof. Weijia Jia is currently a Chair Professor at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University and a Professor at Beijing Normal University (BNU), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. He also serves as the Director of Joint BNU-BNBU Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networking. Prior joining BNU/BNBU, he served as the Chair Professor and Deputy Director of the State Kay Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau and Zhiyuan Chair Professor at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, PR China.  He received BSc/MSc from Center South University, China in 1982-1984 and PhD from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (now with the University of Mons), Belgium in 1991-1993, respectively; all in computer science. For 1993-1995, he joined German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine), Germany as a research fellow. From 1995-2013, he worked in City University of Hong Kong as an Assit./Assoc./full professor. 

His contributions have been recognized as the theory and algorithms of AI (NLP in particular) optimal network routing and deployment, intelligent edge computing, vertex cover, anycast and multicast protocols, sensors networking, and knowledge relation extractions. He has over 500 publications in the prestige international journals/conferences (e.g. IEEE/ACM Transactions/journals, Infocom, AAAI etc.) and research books and book chapters. His current H-index is 67 (Google scholar, citations 15000+). He received the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 and many provincial science and technology awards. He has guided the students to attain 30+ top prizes in various top international conferences and  AI competitions. Based on his research outcome and input into the system implementations, he received the best product awards from the International Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen, China) in the consecutive years of 2011 and 2012. He has served as area editor for various prestige international journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computer Communications), chair and PC member/keynote speaker for top international conferences. He has been recognized as Chinese National Expert and listed in 2020-2022 as Top 2% of life Scientists on Stanford List. He is the Fellow of IEEE and the Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Zhen Lei, The Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), China

IEEE/IAPR Fellow, H-index: 88

Zhen Lei is a Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005, and his Doctoral degree from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Professor Lei is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the Asian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA). He has authored over 200 papers in reputable international journals and conferences, with over 34,000 Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 87.

Professor Lei was Program Co-Chair of the 2023 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) and Competition Co-Chair of IJCB 2022, and has acted as Area Chair for numerous academic conferences. Additionally, he holds the Associate Editor position for “IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,” “IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science,” “Pattern Recognition,” “Neurocomputing,” and “IET Computer Vision”. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing, with a particular focus on face recognition. Professor Lei was the recipient of the 2019 IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award.

Prof. Shouling Ji, Zhejiang University, China

Shouling Ji  is a Qiushi Distinguished Professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University and an adjunct Research Faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology , a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University, and B.S. (with Honors) and M.S. degrees both in Computer Science from Heilongjiang University. His current research interests include Data-driven Security and Privacy, AI Security and Software and System Security. He is a member of ACM and IEEE, a senior member of CCF and was the Membership Chair of the IEEE Student Branch at Georgia State University (2012-2013). He was a Research Intern at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Shouling is the recipient of the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad and 10 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards, including ACM CCS 2021.