
Prof. Huaping Zhang
Vice Dean, School
of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Technology,
Vice Director of Data Intelligence Technology Center
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Biography: Dr. Kevin (or Hua-Ping) Zhang is Distinguished Professor, Ph.D Supervisor, National Level Leading Talents, Vice Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Technology, Vice Director of Data Intelligence Technology Center, Director, NLPIR Lab. ,Beijing Institute of Technology. He was awarded with National Level Leading Talents . He is chief secretary of Board of Intelligence MulitiLingual Information Processing (IMLIP), affiliated with Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI); and Distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF). His research interests include Big Data search and mining, natural language process especially with Chinese language processing. He is guest professor in Xinjiang Univeristy, Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Capital Normal University and Liaoning Normal University. Dr. Zhang is a reviewer of several journals, such as ACL、COLING、EMNLP、IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems(top journal)、Knowledge-Based Systems (top journal), Computer Research and Development, China Online Scientific Paper.As the team leader, he has been granted over 30 research projects by National Science Foundation of China, China Fundamental Research Plan, and Defense Technology Foundation. Dr. Zhang has published 5 books, over 100 papers. He developed Chinese lexical analysis system NLPIR/ICTCLAS, which was the most cited work in Chinese natural language processing domain (over 20,000 citations). He was awarded with the first prize of Qian Wei-Chang Chinese Information Science and Technology Award (top award in Chinese NLP field) in 2010, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award from Xinjiang Government for Progress in Science and Technology in 2016, First Prize of Science and Technology Award from Xinjiang Government for Progress in Science and Technology in 2021 (the 2nd position), and the Second Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Award in 2022.

Prof. Harald Löwe
Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Biography:
Harald Löwe received the Diploma (Hons.) degree in
mathematics in 1990 and the Dr. rer. nat. degree (summa cum
laude) in 1994, both from Technical University of
Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, and the Habilitation
degree in 2001. He is a Professor with the Department of
Mathematics, Technical University of Braunschweig. He was a
Visiting Professor with University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz
de Tenerife, Spain, and University Henri Poincaré, Nancy,
France. He joined Beijing Union University, Beijing
University of Technology, and Henan Polytechnic University
(Jiaozuo, China), as a Guest Professor.
His research interests include geometry, especially
geometric methods in mechanics, robotics, design and
manufacture of spiral bevel gears, and metal injection
molding. Furthermore, he is concerned with high school
projects in mathematics and with the improvement of math
teaching for engineers. Recently, he is studying senseful
usages of AI-tools, especially GPTs and other Large Language
Models, within lectures on robotics and applied mathematics.
Dr. Löwe is the Chief Editor of Mathematikinformation. He
received the Heinrich-Büssing Prize for outstanding research
in 2002.

Prof. Guoqi Xie
Director of Key
Laboratory for Embedded and Network Computing of Hunan
Province
Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology
Changsha University of Science and Technology, China
Biography: Dr. Guoqi Xie is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Hunan University and the Director of the Key Laboratory for Embedded and Network Computing of Hunan Province. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Hunan University, China, in 2014. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Nagoya University, Japan. He is the founder and leader of ZVM (Zephyr-based Virtual Machine), which is a new-generation Type 1.5 embedded virtualization solution (Hypervisor). His current research interests include real-time systems, embedded virtualization, time-sensitive networking, system safety and security. He is currently serving on the secretary-general of the CCF Technical Committee on Embedded Systems and the editorial boards of the Journal of Systems Architecture, the Microprocessors and Microsystems, and the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers. He is an IEEE senior member and ACM senior member.
Invited Speaker

Prof. Peng Liu
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Biography: Peng Liu has a Ph.D. in Statistics and Data Science and a M.S. in Business Analytics from the National University of Singapore. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Finance (Practice) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics at National University of Singapore. He has over ten years of industry experience across multiple industries. His research highlights expertise in areas such as deep learning, sparse estimation, and Bayesian optimization with applications in Finance.
