Zhaopeng Cui is a Research Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and previously worked as a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
His research focuses on 3D Computer Vision and Physical Intelligence, including 3D reconstruction and understanding, 3D motion planning, and physics-based modeling. He has published over 60 papers in top-tier journals and conferences in computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. He has served as the principal investigator of several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), including General Program and Special Program grants.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition (PR) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). He has also served as an Area Chair for CVPR and ECCV, a Technical Papers Committee member for SIGGRAPH, and an Associate Editor for ICRA and IROS.
His research has received several recognitions, including Best Paper Finalist in Robot Vision at ICRA 2020, Best Paper Finalist on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics at IROS 2021, and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at 3DV 2024.
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
Yu Zhou, Professor, doctoral supervisor, National-level Young Talent, Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University. He has long been engaged in research on artificial intelligence, multimodal analysis, and large-model agents. In recent years, he has published more than 80 high-level papers in TPAMI, TMM, CVPR, etc., and has received over 6,700 Google Scholar citations. He has led more than 10 national/provincial/ministerial-level projects. He has received a series of honors, including the First Prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Award and the ACM Rising Star Award.
Speech Title: Efficient multimodal computing under low-resource constraints
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.
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
Hao Zeng received his Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He obtained a Master of Science with Distinction in Computer Science and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, UK, where he was awarded a full Graduate Teaching Assistantship scholarship during his doctoral studies. His research interests include formal methods in software engineering, the integration of artificial intelligence and art, and the digital intelligence of intangible cultural heritage.
During his study and work in the UK, he served as an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the University of Leicester, Part-time Lecturer at De Montfort University, and Researcher for the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Horizon 2020 BehAPI project.
He is currently a full-time faculty member at the School of Media Engineering, Communication University of Zhejiang, a Zhejiang Provincial Entrepreneurship Mentor, and a recipient of the Taizhou “500 Elite” Talent Programme. He also serves as the Director of the Intelligent Vision and Data Perception Innovation Base at the School of Media Engineering. He teaches courses including Python Programming, C Programming, and Big Data and Machine Learning. He is the chief editor of textbooks Python Programming and Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence.
Speech Title: Beyond Prompting: From AI Users to AI Innovators through Student-Built Digital Media Prototypes