Prof. Jiafu Wan

South China University of Technology, China

Experience: JiafuWan, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow, an AAIS Fellow, and a "Highly Cited Researcher" by Clarivate Analytics. The research direction is the deep integration research of information and communication technology (such as artificial intelligence, industrial big data, etc.) and advanced manufacturing technology, specifically including: embodied intelligent robots, smart factories, digital twins, fault diagnosis, etc. IEEE Fellow(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), AAIS Fellow(International Academy for Artificial Intelligence), and has been selected for the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List for six consecutive years (2019-2024). For six consecutive years, he/she has been selected as an Elsevier "Highly Cited Chinese Researcher" (2020-2025), and for five consecutive years, he/she has been included in the list of the world's top 2% of scientists (2020-2024). He/She has won the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Guangdong Province (2018) and the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Guangdong Province (2023). Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Hainan Province (2024), Second Prize of Natural Science of Hubei Province (2016), First Prize of Excellent Academic Paper of Natural Science of Hubei Province (Corresponding Author, 2016), Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE Access (2017) Provincial Key Cultivation Object of the "Thousand, Hundred and Ten Project" for Higher Education Institutions in Guangdong Province (2010), etc.

Prof.ShuyinXia

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Experience: Shuyin Xia is a Guomai Scholar Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Chongqing Association for Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence, Vice Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Vice Dean of the Institute of Frontier Interdisciplinary Studies, and Executive Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Big Data Intelligent Computing, Ministry of Education. He has led several national key projects, including the National Key R&D Program, the NSFC Original Exploration Project, and the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund. Together with Wang Guoyin, Gao Xinbo, and others, he proposed the Granular-Ball Computing theory. His related research outcomes have been published in major artificial intelligence journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, TKDE, TIP, TNNLS, TCYB, ICML, CVPR, WWW, AAAI, ICDE, and IJCAI. He is recognized as a World's Top 2% Scientist. He has received the First Prize of the CCF Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence 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 beyond.His work has earned awards including the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, First Prize of the Chongqing Natural Science Award, First Prize of the CCF Natural Science Award, and the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award.