Keynote Speakers
Professor and Vice President, Nanjing University
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Zhi-Hua Zhou is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Vice President of Nanjing University. His research interests are mainly in machine learning and data mining, with significant contributions to ensemble learning, multi-label and weakly supervised learning, etc. He has authored the books "Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms", "Machine Learning", etc., and published more than 200 papers in top-tier journals or conferences, with more than 100,000 citations according to Google Scholar. Many of his inventions have been successfully deployed in industry. He is President of IJCAI Trustee, Series Editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Computer Science, and advisory board member of AI Magazine. ...
Professor, Monash University
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Professor Geoff Webb is an eminent and highly-cited AI researcher. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Monash University Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He was editor in chief of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of both ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM and member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive. He is a Technical Advisor to machine learning as a service startup BigML Inc and to recommender systems startup FROOMLE. He developed many of the key mechanisms of support-confidence association discovery in the 1980s. His OPUS search algorithm remains the state-of-the-art in rule search. ...
Principal Scientist, Meta Reality Labs
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Xin Luna Dong is a Principal Scientist at Meta Wearables AI, where she leads the Agentic AI efforts for building trustworthy and personalized assistants on wearable devices. Previously, she spent over a decade advancing knowledge graph technology, including the Amazon Product Graph and the Google Knowledge Graph. She is co-author of Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases and Big Data Integration. ...
Lead Scientist, Shanghai AI Laboratory
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Dr. Xia "Ben" Hu is currently the Lead Scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory. Previously, he was Full Professor, and Director of the Data Science Institute, at Rice University, USA, and co-founder of AI POW LLC. Dedicated to machine learning and AI research, he has published over 200 papers in top conferences/journals like ICLR, NeurIPS and KDD, with over 40,000 citations. His leading works include AutoKeras (a top AutoML framework), NCF algorithm (officially recommended by TensorFlow, single paper cited over 9,000 times), and anomaly detection systems used by NVIDIA, Apple, etc. His papers have received several Best Paper (Candidate) awards from venues such as ICML, WWW, WSDM, ICDM, AMIA and INFORMS. He has won honors such as NSF CAREER Award and KDD Rising Star Award. ...
Head of AI & Chief Scientist, Squirrel Ai Learning
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Qingsong Wen is currently the Head of AI & Chief Scientist at Squirrel Ai Learning (a top EdTech unicorn), and PhD Supervisor at University of Oxford. Before that, he worked at Alibaba, Qualcomm, Marvell, etc., and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, and signal processing, especially AI for Time Series, AI for Education, LLM & AI Agent. He has published nearly 200 top-ranked AI conference and journal papers. Currently, he serves as Associate Vice President for Cybernetics of IEEE SMC Society, Chair of IEEE CIS Task Force on AI for Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data, and Vice Chair of INNS AI for Education Section. ...