Keynote Speakers
Prof. Sam KWONG Tak Wu (IEEE Fellow)
Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies of Lingnan University. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong is one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-22. He is a fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record with over 500 journal articles, and 160 conference papers with an h-index of 99 based on Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of a number of leading IEEE transaction journals.
Prof. Ran He (IAPR/IEEE Fellow)
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ran He received his Ph.D.
degree (2009) from National Laboratory of Pattern
Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CASIA). He is currently a full Professor at
NLPR, CASIA. His research interests involve the general
areas of pattern recognition and computer vision,
information forensics and security. He published over 200
items of academic work including conference papers, journal
papers, and patents. His research won IEEE SPS young author
best paper award, ICPR 2020 best scientific paper award, ACL
2025 outstanding paper award, ACPR 2025 best student paper
award. His Google Scholar is 25,000+.
Dr. Ran He is a Fellow of IAPR and Fellow of IEEE. He is
currently vice president of IEEE Biometrics Council, vice
chair of IEEE IFS-TC, Deputy Editors-in-Chief for IEEE
Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS),
Associate Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on
Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). He is
also an Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, IJCV
and Pattern Recognition.
Prof. Lap-Pui Chau (IEEE Fellow)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Lap-Pui Chau received a Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997. He is currently a Professor and Global STEM Scholar (under the Global STEM Professorship Scheme) and Director of JC STEM Lab of Machine Learning and Computer Vision in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from 1997 to 2022. His current research interests include large language model, perception for autonomous driving, egocentric computer vision, and embodied artificial intelligence. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Jian J Zhang
Bournemouth University, UK
Jian J Zhang is Professor of
Computer Graphics at the National Centre for Computer
Animation (NCCA), Bournemouth University where he leads the
National Research Centre. He has worked at various
universities including Bristol University, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, Chongqing University, Queens University
of Belfast and Brunel University.
As Principle Investigator, Prof Zhang has brought in 10
million pounds (GBP) of research grants to the NCCA from
EPSRC, AHRC, EU FP7, EU H2020, and Horizon Europe as well as
other funding organisations. His research focuses on topics
relating to 3D computer animation, immersive technology
(virtual and augmented reality), virtual human modelling and
simulation, digital twins and artificial intelligence (AI)
powered graphical applications, including graphical scene
understanding, medical visualisation and simulation, and
conversational AI.
Prof Zhang has published over 350 peer reviewed journal and
conference publications and has given over 30
invited/keynote talks around the world. He has chaired over
40 international conferences and symposia, and serves on a
number of editorial boards.
Prof Zhang was awarded the "CGI Outstanding Career Award" by
Computer Graphics International and Computer Graphics
Society in 2021.