Speakers

Prof. Weishan Zhang

IEEE CIS Member

Shandong Credible Intelligence Data Open Innovative Application Lab

China University of Petroleum (East China), China

Professor Zhang is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the head of the Shandong Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem Data Open Innovation Application Laboratory. He serves as the chairman of the Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Society, deputy director of the Federal Data and Federated Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, and a senior member of the Chinese Computer Federation. Associate Editor with IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles et al. He was consecutively listed in the top 2% of global scientists (World's Top 2% Scientists) in 2023 and 2024. From 2007 to 2010, he was an associate professor/senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since August 2008, he has been the technical lead for the Aarhus University on the EU Sixth Framework Programme project Hydra IoT middleware. From 2006 to 2007, he visited the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University University, Canada. From 2001 to 2003, he conducted postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore.

Assoc. Prof. Dimitrios A. Karras

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dimitrios A. Karras completed his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985. He continued his academic journey by obtaining a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NTUA, Greece in 1995, graduating with honors. For fourteen years, from 1990 to 2004, Dr. Karras worked as a visiting professor and researcher at various universities and research institutes throughout Greece. Since 2004, he has been associated with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, in the Automation Department, serving as an Associate Professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing until December 2018. Concurrently, he held a position as a visiting professor in Communication Systems at the Hellenic Open University, Department of Informatics from 2002 to 2010. Starting from January 2019, Dr. Karras serves as an AssociateDimitrios A. Karras obtained his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece in 1985, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from NTUA in 1995, graduating with honors. From 1990 to 2004, he worked as a visiting professor and researcher at various universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, Dr. Karras has held positions at the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology in Greece in the Automation Department, where he served as an associate professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing until December 2018. He has also been a visiting professor in Communication Systems at the Hellenic Open University since 2002 until 2010. Since January 2019, Dr. Karras has been an Associate Professor in Digital Systems and Intelligent Systems, focusing on Signal Processing at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of General Studies. Additionally, he holds adjunct professor roles at GLA University in Mathura, India, BIHER (Bharath University) in India, as well as at Epoka University and CIT Universit

Prof. Tao Lei

IEEE Senior Member, Dalian Maritime University, China

Lei Tao, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Member of the University Academic Committee, Deputy Dean of the School of Electronics Information and Artificial Intelligence, Senior Member of CCF/CSIG/IEEE; serves as a member of the Visual Sensing Committee of the Chinese Society for Image and Graphics, a member of the Image Analysis Branch of the Chinese Society of Stereoscopic Science, Standing Director of the Shaanxi Society for Image and Graphics, co-chair of the 16th International Conference on Neural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery ICNC-FSKD2020, Chair of the organizing committee, publicity chair, and award committee chair for multiple international conferences, member of the program committee for top AI conferences AAAI2020-2024 and IJCAI2019-2024, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Signal Processing, Editorial Board Member of Remote Sensing and *Radio Engineering*, Assistant Editor of *Journal of Intelligent Systems*, and Guest Editor of IEEE J-STARS.

His main research directions include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning; to date, over 80 academic papers have been published in authoritative journals and conferences both domestically and internationally, including IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE TFS, IEEE TGRS, IJCAI, with 6 papers selected as ESI highly cited papers; he has led projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation (5 grants), Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, Shaanxi Provincial Key Research and Development Program, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (special funding, general funding).