Prof. Hong Zhang
Fellow of lEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Zhang received his BSc from Northeastern University (Boston) and PhD from Purdue University, both in Electrical Engineering. From 1988-2020,
he was on the faculty of the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Electronic
and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China in 2020, where he is currently a Chair Professor and
Director of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory on Robotics and Computer Vision. Dr. Zhang's research interests include robotics, computer vision, and image processing.
Among his services in the international robotics community, he was the Editor-in-Chief of IROS Conference Paper Review Board, a flagship conference of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), from 2020 to 2022. Currently, he is serving a three-year term on the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE RAS,
from 2023 to 2025. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Sam Kwong
Fellow of lEEE, AAIA
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Chair Professor of
Computational Intelligence, and concurrently as Associate
Vice-President (Strategic Research) 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 was
listed as one of the top 2% of the world’s most cited
scientists, according to the Stanford University report. He
was listed as one of the most highly cited scientists by
Clarivate in 2022 and 2023. 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 2021-23. Professor Kwong has a
prolific publication record with over 350 journal articles,
and 160 conference papers with an h-index of 83 based on
Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of many
leading IEEE transaction journals. He is a fellow of the US
National Academy of Innovators. and the Hong Kong Academy of
Engineering and Sciences.
Prof.
Lizhuang Ma
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Lizhuang Ma received his B. Sc. and Ph.D. degree at Zhejiang
University, China in 1985 and 1991 respectively. Dr. Ma was
promoted as Professor in 1995. He was a visiting Professor
at CAMTech, NTU, Singapore from 1999 to 2000. He is now a
distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of AI Institute,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Dr. Ma is the
recipient of China National Excellent Young Scientist
Foundation, first class member of China National
Hundred-Thousand-Ten -thousand Talent Plan in 1996 and 1997
respectively. He was awarded Shanghai Municipal Science and
Technology Progress Award grand prize, first prize and
second prize in 2020, 2011 and 2014 respectively. He serves
as the chairman of the specialized Committee of Animation
and Digital Media, Chinese Society of Image Graphics. His
research interests include computer vision, computer
graphics and digital media technology. He has published more
than 400 papers include IEEE TPAMI, TIP, CVPR, ICCV.