Professor Wanyang Dai

Nanjing University, China

Bio: Dr Dai Wanyang, Professor. Currently holds the positions of Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University and Chief Scientist at Suxia Control Technology Co., Ltd. He concurrently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the International SIR Forum (Blockchain and Quantum Computing), Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Big Data-Blockchain and Intelligent Information Professional Committee, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Jiangsu Provincial Applied Statistics Society, and President (both former and current honorary) of the Jiangsu Provincial Society of Probability and Statistics. He previously served as Technical Specialist and Principal Researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Nokia Bell Labs), where several of his projects achieved ‘technology transfer’ – notably the large-scale intelligent AI agent cloud system. He holds one invention patent. His extensive body of influential publications appears in numerous prestigious journals, including the Journal of Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Quantum Information Processing. He has received multiple academic honours and delivered over 80 keynote/plenary presentations at international conferences spanning IEEE/ACM, power and energy systems, big data and cloud computing, artificial intelligence and robotics, quantum computing and communication technologies, computational and applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, and mathematics and statistics. He has served as conference chair for IEEE/ACM events, as editor-in-chief, and as editorial board member for numerous international journals spanning artificial intelligence, quantum computing, machine learning, data science, wireless communications, pure mathematics and statistics, and their applications. He currently holds editorial positions as Editor for AIMS Mathematics, Associate Editor for Results in Applied Mathematics (Elsevier Journal), and Associate Editor for Quantum Research.

Professor Haiquan Zhao

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Bio:Zhao Haiquan, Doctor of Engineering, Professor, Senior Member of IEEE and the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher, ScholarGPS Global Top 0.05% Scholar, Stanford Global Top 2% Scientist, Sichuan Provincial Academic and Technical Leader, Outstanding Expert with Distinguished Contributions in Sichuan Province, Recipient of Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, Specially Appointed Expert under the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology's Overseas Talent Recruitment Programme, Core Member of Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team, and Head of the inaugural Southwest Jiaotong University Innovation Studio. Awarded six provincial/ministerial-level honours including the First Prize in Natural Science from the Chinese Association of Automation, Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education, and China Railway Science and Technology Progress Award, alongside the Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award. Serves on the editorial boards of multiple international SCI journals including IEEE TASLP, IEEE TSMCA, IEEE SPL, Signal Processing, and the Chinese journal Signal Processing. Primary research areas: signal processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.

Professor Zhen Zhang

Zhengzhou University, China

Bio: Wang Ying, Research Fellow at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Secretary-General of the CCF Special Committee on Integrated Circuit Design. His primary research interests encompass integrated circuit design automation, RISC-V special-purpose processor chips, and integrated chip systems. He has led projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Outstanding Young Scientist Fund and the Ministry of Science and Technology's Key R&D Programme. His DeepBurning suite of tools, recognised as a significant contribution to specialised processor automated design, has been integrated into products by companies including NetEase Youdao, Sunny Optical, and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. As technical lead, he spearheaded the 2019 launch of the Institute's inaugural RISC-V edge intelligence chip, JX2. Subsequently, as project director, he led the design of China's first 64-core-die RISC-V integrated chip processor, the Zhijiang No.1. He has published over 100 papers in CCF Class A journals within the integrated circuit and system architecture domains. His work has earned mainland China's first Best Paper Awards in flagship international conferences including IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD). His research achievements have garnered the First Prize for Technological Invention from the Chinese Computer Society (as primary contributor), the Second Prize for Technological Invention from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Second Prize for Technological Invention from Beijing Municipality, Huawei's Olympus Pioneer Award (for intelligent storage systems), the CCF Young Scientist Award, the CCF-Intel Young Scholar Award, and the CCF Integrated Circuit Early Career Award. Internationally, he received the IEEE/ACM DAC Innovation Award for researchers under 40 (one of four globally that year) and the 2018 CAS Special Award for Scientific and Technological Achievement Transformation. His papers were selected for the 2023 IEEE Top Picks in Testing and Fault Tolerance, alongside Best Paper Awards at GLSVLSI and ITC-ASIA, and a Best Paper nomination at ASPDAC.