Lin Weiguo, Professor and doctoral supervisor, holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the field of Communication and Information Systems, and served as a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC). He currently serves as Dean of the School of Computer Science and Cyber Security at Communication University of China. His main research areas include digital rights management technologies and cybersecurity. He has been awarded the National Outstanding Broadcasting and Film Technology Worker title by the China Society of Film and Television Technology for his scientific and technological contributions.

Speech Title: Safeguarding audiovisual security, empowering intelligent media

Prof. Dr. Ainuddin Wahid bin Abdul Wahab is a Professor in the Department of Computer System & Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya (University of Malaya), Malaysia. He holds a PhD in Multimedia Networking from the University of Surrey, UK (2011), and a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Universiti Malaya (2005 and 2001 respectively). His research spans steganography and digital forensics. He has authored more than 96 journal publications, one book, and three conference proceedings, with an H-index of 35 and over 4,380 citations, and has secured research grants exceeding RM 2.5 million. He previously served as Executive Director of the Digital Scholarship and Information Commons Department (Library) at Universiti Malaya (2023-2025). Full CV:https://umexpert.um.edu.my/cv/ainuddin

Speech Title: Machine Evidence Between Presumption and Proof

Professor Dr. Nor Liyana Mohd Shuib is a distinguished academic at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, where she coordinates the Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science) program. Ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University in 2023-2024, she is renowned for her excellence in research, innovation, and consultancy. Throughout her career, Professor Liyana has successfully supervised numerous PhD students to completion, reflecting her dedication to mentoring and nurturing future scholars. She is a prolific researcher with a Scopus H-index of 35 and a Web of Science H-index of 32, and she has published extensively in high-impact journals and international conference proceedings. Her research interests include personalization, e-learning, recommender systems, data analytics, data science, AI applications, and educational technology. An accomplished innovator, Professor Liyana has received over 30 prestigious awards at both national and international levels, including multiple best paper accolades. She leads impactful projects as the Principal Investigator, notably on digital skills frameworks and mental health applications for senior citizens, alongside various AI-driven initiatives in Healthcare and Education. Her consultancy work for Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education includes evaluating digital learning readiness across higher education institutions. A senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, Professor Liyana also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Universitas Semarang, Indonesia, where she continues to advance the fields of computer science and AI applications.

Dr Muhammad Shahreeza is currently the Head of Department, Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya since April 2025. Concurrently he also oversees the planning, administration, deployment, and operation of AI programs offered at Yunnan-Malaya Institute, Yunnnan University, China. Dr Shahreeza received B.Eng. degree in Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, in 2007, and M.Sc. degree in Artificial intelligence and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2013 and 2019, respectively. His core research focus is biophysics modeling, he also explores various neural network architectures. His interest includes applying probabilistic methods and ideas from machine learning to biological models to derive insights into the underlying design principles. The AI department is expanding at an incredible speed, as the AI field is getting a lot of attention in this decade. Hence we welcome those interested to join the department by submitting your applications tohttps://career.um.edu.my/

Lingyun Yu is a Senior Associate Professor and Director of the Intelligent Mediamatics and Data Science Research Centre at the Academy of AI and Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). Her research interests include data visualization, spatial interaction, and visualization and interaction in virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality environments. She has published more than 100 papers in data visualization and human-computer interaction. She has led both a Young Scientists Fund project and a General Program project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Her honours include the IEEE VIS Scientific Visualization 12-Year Test of Time Award, an IEEE VIS Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, and an ACM CHI Best Paper Award. Her recent work explores the visualization and interactive analysis of complex scientific data using spatial interaction and immersive technologies, including virtual and augmented reality.

She serves on the programme committees of leading visualization conferences, including IEEE VIS and ChinaVis. She has also served as IEEE VIS 2026 Poster Co-Chair, ChinaVis 2026 Paper Chair, and VINCI 2026 Art Paper Co-Chair. She is a member of the Eurographics Executive Committee, CSIG-VIS, CCF-HCI, and CCF-CAD/CG.

Speech Title: Immersive Scientific Data Visualization and Exploration

Juncheng Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from Peking University in 2019. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar in the Visual Computing Group at Cardiff University, where he worked with Prof. Paul Rosin. After completing his PhD, he joined the University of Otago as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science at Massey University.

His research interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on AI-driven 3D content generation, geometric and appearance modeling, and robotics.

Speech Title: Learning 3D Appearance: From Field-based Reconstruction to Generative Texture Synthesis