Prof. Benjamin W. Wah

the Chinese University of Hong Kong

(Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM/AAAS)

Bio: Benjamin W. Wah is Professor Emeritus at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Franklin W. Woeltge Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He previously served as Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK. He held joint appointments as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC. Professor Wah received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research spans nonlinear search and optimization, multimedia technologies, and artificial intelligence. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to research and professional service, including the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2006), Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), Tsutomu Kanai Award (2009), the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (2011), and the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong SAR Government (2021). A pioneer in scholarly publishing, Professor Wah co-founded theIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief from 1993 to 1996. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief ofComputers and Education: Artificial Intelligence and Honorary Editor-in-Chief ofKnowledge and Information Systems. His leadership within the IEEE Computer Society includes serving as Vice President for Publications (1998–1999) and President (2001). Professor Wah is a Fellow of the AAAS and ACM, and a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

Prof. Qing Li

Chair Professor (Data Science) and the Head of the Department of Computing

the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

(Fellow of IEEE/AAIA/IET; DMCCF)

Bio: Qing Li is currently a Chair Professor (Data Science) and the Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Formerly, he was the founding Director of the Multimedia software Engineering Research Centre (MERC), and a Professor at City University of Hong Kong where he worked in the Department of Computer Science from 1998 to 2018. Prior to these, he has also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Prof. Li served as a consultant to Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China), Motorola Global Computing and Telecommunications Division (Tianjin Regional Operations Center), and the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia. He has been an Adjunct Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Wuhan University, and a Guest Professor of the Hunan University (Changsha, China) where he got his BEng. degree from the Department of Computer Science in 1982. He is also a Guest Professor (Software Technology) of the Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) -- the leading university of the Zhejiang province where he was born.

Prof. Li has been actively involved in the research community by serving as an associate editor and reviewer for technical journals, and as an organizer/co-organizer of numerous international conferences. Some recent conferences in which he is playing or has played major roles include APWeb-WAIM'18, ICDM 2018, WISE2017, ICDSC2016, DASFAA2015, U-Media2014, ER2013, RecSys2013, NDBC2012, ICMR2012, CoopIS2011, WAIM2010, DASFAA2010, APWeb-WAIM'09, ER'08, WISE'07, ICWL'06, HSI'05, WAIM'04, IDEAS'03,VLDB'02, PAKDD'01, IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), IDS'00, and WISE'00. In addition, he served as a programme committee member for over fifty international conferences (including VLDB, ICDE, WWW, DASFAA, ER, CIKM, CAiSE, CoopIS, and FODO). He is currently a Fellow of IEEE and IET/IEE, a member of ACM-SIGMOD and IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering. He is the chairperson of the Hong Kong Web Society, and also served/is serving as an executive committee (EXCO) member of IEEE-Hong Kong Computer Chapter and ACM Hong Kong Chapter. In addition, he serves as a councilor of the Database Society of Chinese Computer Federation (CCF), a member of the Big Data Expert Committee of CCF, and is a Steering Committee member of DASFAA, ER, ICWL, UMEDIA, and WISE Society.

Prof. Yulin Wang

Wuhan University

Bio: Yulin Wang is a full professor in the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China. His research interests include image and video processing, digital rights management, information security, intelligent system, e-commerce, IoT, code clone and so on. He got his PhD degree from University of London, UK. He got his master and bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology（HUST）and Xi-Dian University respectively, both in China. Before joining the Wuhan University, he has worked in Hi-tech IT industry, including HUAWEI© and national research institute, for more than ten years. He has involved more than 15 national and international research projects. In recently 10 years, Prof. Wang has published 1 book, and 50+ journal and conference papers, including in IEEE TIP. He holds 10 authorized patents. Prof. Wang served as EiC of 2 international journals and reviewer of top IEEE and ACM journals. He also served as reviewer of Innovative talents projects and national  research funds, including National High Technology Research and Development Program of China. Prof. Wang was the external PhD advisor of Dublin City University, Ireland during 2008-2010. In recently 10 years, Prof. Wang served as chairman of more than 10 international conferences, and keynote speakers in more than 20 international conferences. Besides UK, he visited US, France,Italy, Portugal,Croatia, Australia, Germany, korea, Ireland,Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Hong Kong. In addition, Prof. Wang has been appointed as the deputy director of Hubei provincial science and technology commission (CAPD) since 2014.

Prof. Heming Jia

Sanming University, China

Bio: Jia Heming, Ph.D., professor, master's supervisor, and leader in the field of electronic information. Selected on the global top 2% scientists list, a high-level C-class talent in Sanming City, a director of the Fujian Artificial Intelligence Society, a director of the Fujian Computer Society, a senior member of the China Computer Society, and an assistant editorial board member of the Journal of Intelligent Systems. I have published over 100 scientific research papers as the first author and corresponding author, including over 50 SCI searches. Hosted 1 general project of the Fujian Natural Science Foundation, 3 special funding projects for basic scientific research business expenses of central universities, 1 education and research project for young and middle-aged teachers in Fujian Province, 3 guiding science and technology projects in Sanming City, and 4 horizontal projects for enterprises.

Personal website: https://xxgc.fjsmu.edu.cn/2020/1025/c1767a101567/page.htm