Prof. Guoyin Wang

Chongqing Normal University

Guoyin Wang, male, born in March 1970, Ph.D. in Engineering, Professor (Level II), Doctoral Supervisor. He currently serves as Secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing Normal University and a member of the Sixth Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with a Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degree in 1992, 1994, and 1996, respectively. He has previously served as Director of the Teaching and Research Section, Vice Dean, Dean, and Executive Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT); Dean of the Graduate School / Director of the Graduate Work Department / Director of the Discipline Construction Office; Director of the Institute of Electronic Information Technology, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (part-time); Assistant to the President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (temporary assignment); and Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of CQUPT. Since June 2024, he has served as Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Chongqing Normal University; since July 2026, he has served as Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Chongqing Normal University; and since September 2026, he has served as Secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing Normal University. He concurrently serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Big Data Intelligent Security, Ministry of Education; Head of the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Big Data Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Science and Technology; and Director of the Key Laboratory of Tourism Multi-source Data Perception and Decision Technology, Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He previously served as President of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS), Vice President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Council Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), President of the Chongqing Association for Artificial Intelligence (CQAAI), and President of the Chongqing Information Security Association (CISA). He currently serves as Vice President of the Chinese Society for Cognitive Science (CSCS) and Member of the Board of Supervisors of CAAI. He is also an editorial board member of more than 10 journals, including the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and the Chinese Journal of Computers.

Prof. Xindong Wu

Hefei University of Technology

Xindong Wu, Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is currently a Professor at Hefei University of Technology and Director of the Key Laboratory of Big Data Knowledge Engineering, Ministry of Education. He is a Changjiang Scholar, a Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and Honorary President of the Anhui Association for Artificial Intelligence. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, USA (9 years), Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (2 years), and Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at MiningLamp Technology. He is the leader of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platform for Marketing Intelligence, the leader of the Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education for "Multi-source Massive Dynamic Information Processing," the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China project "Basic Theory and Application Research of Big Data Knowledge Engineering," and a recipient of the NSFC Overseas and Hong Kong/Macao Scholars Collaborative Research Fund (two years initially, extended for four years; Overseas Excellent Young Scholars / Overseas Distinguished Young Scholars).

From January 2005 to December 2008, he served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) for two consecutive terms. From October 2017 to September 2020, he served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). He is the founder (established in 1999) and current Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), the founder (first held in 2001) and current Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and the founding Chair (2002–2006) and current Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII).

Researcher Tianyi Zhou

A*STAR, Singapore

Zhou Tianyi is Director of the AI Agent Department at the Singapore National Research Institute, Platform Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Applied AI, an International Distinguished Young Scholar, and an S-level (highest level) selectee of the National Foreign Expert Talent Program. Dr. Zhou Tianyi has led multiple national-level projects in Singapore and has published more than 200 papers in core journals in fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and information security (CAS Zone 1) and at international conferences (CCF A-class). He also serves as a standing editorial board member of CCF A-class journals and other important international SCI journals, such as IJCV, AIJ, and IEEE Transactions. He has served as Area Chair for multiple top-tier/important international academic conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, and IJCAI, as well as General Chair of IJCNN 2027 and Vice Chair of IJCAI 2025. He has received Best Paper Awards from multiple top-tier/important international academic conferences and their workshops/special sessions, including IJCAI, ECCV, and ACML, and was named by Stanford University among the World's Top 2% Scientists (career-long list).

Prof. Shuyin Xia

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Shuyin Xia is a Guomai Scholar Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Chongqing Association for Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence, Associate Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Vice Dean of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, and Executive Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Big Data Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Education. He has led multiple national key projects, including the National Key R&D Program, the NSFC Original Exploration Program, and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He co-proposed the granular-ball computing theory with Guoyin Wang, Xinbo Gao, and others. His research has been published in major AI journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, TKDE, TIP, TNNLS, TCYB, ICML, CVPR, WWW, AAAI, ICDE, and IJCAI. He is recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists. He has received the First Prize of the CCF Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Chongqing Natural Science Award, and the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. His research interests include granular-ball computing and its applications in computer vision, machine learning, data mining, graph learning, deep learning, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, abductive learning, semantic communication, economic management, and other fields.