Biography: Kaizhu Huang works on trustworthy machine learning, and neural/biomedical information processing. Before joining DKU, he was a full professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Associate Dean of research in School of Advanced Technology, XJTLU. He was also Head of EEE, at XJTLU from 2016 to 2019. He worked at Fujitsu Research Centre, CUHK, University of Bristol, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2012. He was the recipient of the 2011 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award. He received the best paper or book awards for seven times. He has published 10 books and over 280 international research papers including 150+ journal papers (e.g. IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-CYB, JMLR) and 140+ conference papers (e.g. AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, NeurIPS, UAI, CIKM, ICDM, ICML, ECML, CVPR, ICCV). He is Editor in Chief, Elsevier CSSI and serves as associated editors/advisory board members in a number of international journals and book series. He was invited as a keynote speaker in more than 50 international conferences or workshops. He has led 5 NSFC major or general program projects, all as PI.
Biography: Prof. Zhi Li is a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF), former standing committee member of its Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE), and a member of its Technical Council on Systems Software, Service Computing and Formal Methods, senior member of IEEE and ACM. He graduated with a BSc degree from Fudan University in 1991, an MSc degree from the University of York in 2004, and a PhD degree from The Open University in 2008. Prof. Li had spent over 10 years doing professional and technical work before he entered academia in 2001, with subsequent 9 years in the UK. His research interests are modeling, verifying, testing and validating Human-Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPSs) based on a problem-oriented approach, Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AI4RE), Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His research has been sponsored by 3 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 5 grants from Ministry of Education of China, Guangxi Natural Science Foundation, and Guangxi Scientific Research & Technological Development. He has published over 80 research papers at international journals and conferences (including TSE, TKDE, FSE2025, Journal of Software, 3 best conference papers). He has given 2 keynote speeches and over 20 invited talks in international conferences, and he is the leader and one of the main contributors to a suite of Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering (CARE) tools for Problem-Oriented Software Development (POSD).
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