Prof. KWONG Sam Tak Wu

Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

IEEE Fellow, Fellow of US National

Academy of Inventors (NAI)

Brief Introduction: Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and the Acting Dean of the School of Data Science of Lingnan University. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong is one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate in 2022, 2023 and 2024. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-22. He is a fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record with over 350 journal articles, and 160 conference papers with an h-index of 93 based on Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of a number of leading IEEE transaction journals.

Prof. Xiangyang Ji

Tsinghua University, China

Brief Introduction: Xiangyang Ji received the BS degree in materials science and the MS degree in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and the PhD degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2008, where he is a professor with the Department of Automation, School of Information Science and Technology. He has authored more than 100 referred conference and journal papers. His research interests include signal processing, image/video compressing, and intelligent imaging. 

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