Keynote Speakers

Jiang Hongbo

Professor Hongbo Jiang

Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, IET Fellow, BCS Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Hunan University


Hongbo Jiang is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Fellow of the IET, BCS, AAIA, and AIIA, and holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, USA. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Hunan University, Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Systems and Networks, and Deputy Director of the Academic Expert Committee of China State Construction International Holdings Limited. Additionally, he serves as an Editor for several prestigious international journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT).




Professor Yun Li

IEEE Fellow

Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, China


Professor Yun Li FIEEE taught at University of Glasgow for 28 years since 1991, where he supervised 30 doctoral students on “AI for Science and Engineering”, was recognized as the second Top Author, and served as the founding Director of University of Glasgow Singapore.  In 2021, he founded the Industrial Artificial Intelligence Centre and is currently its Chief Scientist as well as Chief Scientist of the AI and Robotics Institute, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, where he serves as Changjiang Chair Professor.  Prof Li has published over 300 papers and books, and holds over 30 patents in China, Europe, United States and Japan.  He has been funded over 20 million pounds to led or co-led over 30 research projects in the UK, EU, Singapore, and China, and currently leads 3 major research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the next-generation AI models and by the National Key R&D Program of China for the next-generation AI chips.  



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Professor Zuqing Zhu

IEEE Fellow

University of Science and Technology of China, China


Professor Zhu Zuoqing pursued his doctoral degree at the University of California, Davis, from September 2003 to July 2007. From July 2007 to January 2011, he served as a senior engineer in the Service Provider Technology Group at Cisco Systems headquarters in the United States. In 2011, he was selected for the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. From January 2011 to June 2014, he was an associate professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. In June 2014, he became a professor and doctoral supervisor in the same department. In November 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).



Professor Ying Tan

Peking University, China


Professor at Peking University, who has achieved significant research results in neural network information processing, evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, and their applications in computer security. He has received the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2009, five Military Science and Technology Progress Awards, and multiple Outstanding Paper Awards. He has published over 200 academic papers and authored five monographs, including Introduction to Fireworks Algorithm and Fireworks Algorithm: A Novel Swarm Intelligence Optimization Method. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.