| Professor Wenyin GongDeputy Dean, School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), ChinaWenyin Gong, Ph.D., is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). He is a recipient of the Hubei Provincial Outstanding Young Scientist Fund. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2004, 2007, and 2010, respectively. His research interests mainly focus on intelligent computing and its applications. He currently serves as a Council Member of the Chinese Association for Simulation, an IEEE Senior Member, and a member of the Executive Committee of ECOLE. He is also an editorial board member of international journals including Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems with Applications, Memetic Computing, IJBIC, and CSMS. He has led one project under the National Key R&D Program of China, three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and one project funded by the Ministry of Education Doctoral Program. He has published more than 150 papers in SCI-indexed journals, including 8 ESI Highly Cited Papers, and has authored two monographs and one translated book. He has received two Second Prizes of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award, one Second Prize of the Hubei Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, the Hubei Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Hubei Provincial Outstanding Master's Dissertation Award. Speech Title: To Be Determined Abstract: To Be Determined |
| Associate Professor Kaizhou GaoMacau University of Science and Technology, ChinaKaizhou Gao is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. and Master's Supervisor at Macau University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, and Expert Systems with Applications, all of which are SCI Q1 journals. His research interests mainly include intelligent optimization theory and methods, scheduling and optimization, intelligent transportation, and machine learning. He has led more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial-level, and international cooperation projects. He has published more than 100 SCI papers in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and other leading international journals, including 2 ESI Hot Papers and more than 10 ESI Highly Cited Papers. He was listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists from 2021 to 2023. He received the Second Prize of the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Award in 2021 and 2023, the 2022 Norbert Wiener Review Award from IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and the Excellent Paper Award from TSINGHUA Science and Technology. He has organized more than 10 special issues for international journals and special sessions at conferences, and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at international conferences twice. Speech Title: To Be Determined Abstract: To Be Determined |
