Speakers
kEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Xindong Wu
IEEE/AAAS Fellow
Hefei University of Technology, China
Bio-sketch: Xindong Wu is Director and Professor of the Key Laboratory
of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data (the Ministry of Education of
China), Hefei University of Technology, China. He is also a Senior
Research Scientist at Zhejiang Lab, China. His research interests
include big data analytics, data mining and knowledge engineering. He
received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from
the Hefei University of Technology, China, and his Ph.D. degree in
Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, Britain. He is
a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of
IEEE and the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Dr. Wu is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and the Editor in-Chief of Knowledge
and Information Systems (KAIS, by Springer). He was the Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
between 2005 and 2008 and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on
Knowledge Discovery from Data Engineering between 2017 and 2020. He
served as a program committee chair/co-chair for ICDM 2003 (the 3rd IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining), KDD 2007 (the 13th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), CIKM
2010 (the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management),
and ICBK 2017 (the 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge).
One of his completed projects is Knowledge Engineering With Big Data
(BigKE), which was a 54-month, 45-million RMB, 15-institution national
grand project, as described in detail at
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7948800 .
Prof. Mingbo Zhao
Donghua University, China
Bio-sketch: Mingbo Zhao received the Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in February 2013. He joined the School of Information Science and Technology at Donghua University in 2026, where he was appointed as a Full Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the Automation program. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for several SCI-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is also an Associate Editor of the SCI journal International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and a Domain Editorial Board Member of the Chinese core journal Computer Engineering. He has served as a Senior Program Committee Member of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2022–2025) and as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia (2021–2023), and has also served on the program committees of multiple international conferences and as a reviewer for numerous leading journals. His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, with a focus on multimodal information retrieval, fault diagnosis, and medical diagnosis. Over the past five years, he has published more than 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences in artificial intelligence, authored two book chapters, obtained one U.S. invention patent and five Chinese invention patents, and led three research projects, including a General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, while also participating as a key member in a National Major Science and Technology Project of China. His publications have received more than 4, 800 citations on Google Scholar, indicating significant academic impact both nationally and internationally.