Keynote Speakers

Prof. Xin Luo

IEEE Fellow

Southest University, China

Biography: Dr. Luo holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and completed postdoctoral training. Currently serving as a Rank-2 Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southwest University, he is the Dean of the School of Computer and Information Science · School of Software. An IEEE Fellow and National High-Level Leading Talent, he was selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2005) and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Beihang University (2011). His research focuses on data science, with 350+ publications including 120 CAS Tier-1 journal papers, 151 IEEE Transactions/Journal articles (e.g., IEEE T-PAMI, T-KDE, T-NNLS), and 32 ESI Highly Cited Papers, achieving a cumulative impact factor >1,000. His work has been cited >9,000 times (Web of Science) and >14,000 times (Google Scholar), with an H-index of 74. He has led 7 national and 10+ provincial research projects, securing >¥50 million in funding. With 35 authorized invention patents and 27 commercialized technologies generating >¥200 million in economic benefits, he received the First Prize of Chongqing Natural Science Award (2019, first completer), First Prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Progress Award (2018, second completer), and Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Award (CAAI, 2018, third completer). He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (a Key Journal under China's Excellence Action Plan), earning Outstanding Editor Awards from both (2020-2024). Continuously listed in Stanford-Elsevier's "World's Top 2% Scientists" (lifetime impact) and Elsevier's "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" since 2022.

Prof. Xuemin Lin

Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea, IEEE Fellow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Experience: Lin Xuemin is a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he currently serves as the Head of the Department of Data and Business Intelligence at the Antai College of Economics and Management. Additionally, Professor Lin is a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea and an IEEE Fellow. He previously held editorial roles at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, serving successively as Editorial Board Member, Associate Editor, and Editor-in-Chief, and was an Editorial Board Member for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2008-2014). Professor Lin has frequently been invited to serve as Program Committee Member, Area Chair, and Program Committee Co-Chair at top-tier conferences in databases and data mining (including SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGKDD, ICDE, and ICDM), notably co-chairing the Program Committees for VLDB 2022 and ICDE 2019. Professor Lin earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1992, following a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Fudan University, China in 1984, where he also pursued doctoral studies in Applied Mathematics from 1984 to 1988. After two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Australia in November 1994 as a faculty member. In November 1997, he moved to the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Professor Lin has held distinguished visiting appointments as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a Guest Chair Professor at Fudan University, and previously served as an Adjunct Professor at East China Normal University.