Prof. Guan Gui

IEEE Fellow

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guan Gui (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2012. From 2009 to 2014, he was a research assistant and postdoctoral research fellow at Tohoku University, Japan. From 2014 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at Akita Prefectural University in Japan. Since 2015, he has been a Professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research focuses on intelligent sensing and recognition, intelligent signal processing, and physical layer security. Dr. Gui has authored over 200 IEEE journal and conference papers and received several best paper awards, including at ICC 2017, ICC 2014, and VTC 2014-Spring. He is a fellow of IEEE, IET, and AAIA, and he is recognized for his contributions to intelligent signal analysis and wireless resource optimization. Among his accolades, he received the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award in 2021 and was named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2021 to 2024. Dr. Gui is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He is an editorial board member for several leading journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Additionally, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. He has also held prominent roles in international conferences, such as Executive Chair of IEEE ICCT 2023, Executive Chair of VTC 2021-Fall, and Vice Chair of WCNC 2021.

Prof. Mang Ye

Wuhan University, China

Mang Ye is currently a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University. He received the PhD degree from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019, supported by Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from Wuhan University in 2013 and 2016. He worked as a Research Scientist at Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence from 2019-2020 and worked as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in 2018. He has published more than 100 papers, with more than 14000 citations, including those from 2 Turing awardees (Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun). 20 papers are ESI Highly Cited. He serves as Area Chair for top AI conferences such as CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ACM MM, ICLR, ECCV, and others, and he also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE TIFS and IEEE TIP. He received the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Excellent Youth Fund (Overseas). His research interests include open-world visual learning and its applications in multimedia analysis and reasoning.

Prof. Jianquan Ouyang

Xiangtan University, China

Ouyang Jianquan, Ph.D., Second-level professor of Hunan Province, doctoral supervisor, visiting scholar at the University of Georgia, U.S.A. He was selected as the third-level candidate of Hunan Province New Century 121 Talent Project in 2011. He was selected as the 2019-2020 Hunan Province "Three Districts" Talent Support Program. He was awarded the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Promotion Award in 2019. He was awarded the Baosteel Education Award and the first outstanding science and technology worker in Xiangtan City in 2018. He was awarded the third prize of Hunan Province Natural Science in 2010. He was awarded the second prize of Hunan Province Teaching Achievement in 2013 and the second prize in 2016 and 2019. In 2014, he won the third prize of excellent achievements in educational scientific research in Hunan Province. In 2018, he won the national prize of teaching innovation in artificial intelligence and big data education in colleges and universities. In 2020, 2021,2022 and 2023, he won the "Outstanding Contribution Award" for Artificial Intelligence Big Data Blockchain Education in National Universities. In 2007, he was selected as the training object of young backbone teachers in general colleges and universities in Hunan Province. He is a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF) and a liaison of Xiangtan University, a correspondent member of CCF Youth Working Committee, a member of CCF Education Working Committee, a correspondent member of CCF Big Data Expert Committee, a standing member of CCF Computer Application Professional Committee, a member of CCF Computer Vision Professional Committee, a member of CCF Pervasive Computing Professional Committee, a member of YOCSEF ( Young Computer Science and Technology Forum of Chinese Computer Society) Changsha Sub-Forum 2015-2016 Chair, Executive Member of CCF Changsha Member Center, Senior Member of Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence.