MLISE 2024
Prof. Weijia Jia，Beijing Normal University, China
（IEEE Fellow,Distinguished Member of CCF）
贾维嘉教授，北京师范大学（珠海）
Biography:
Weijia Jia is currently a Chair Professor and Director of the Joint AI and Future Networking Research Institute of Beijing Normal University (BNU, Zhuhai) and United International College (UIC), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. He also serves as the VP for Research at UIC China. Before joining BNU/UIC, he served as the Deputy Director of the State Kay Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau and Zhiyuan Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, PR China. He received his BSc/MSc degrees from Center South University, China in 1982 and 1984, and his a PhD degree from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium in 1993, all in computer science. Between 1993 to 1995, he joined the German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine) as a research fellow. From 1995 to 2013, he served at the City University of Hong Kong as a professor. His contributions have been recognized for the research of optimal network routing and deployment, vertex cover, anycast and multicast protocols, sensors networking, knowledge relation extractions, NLP, and intelligent edge computing. He has over 600 publications in prestigious international journals/conferences, including papers, books, and book chapters. He has received the best product awards from the International Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen) in 2011/2012 the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 and many provincial science and tech awards. He has served as an area editor for various prestige international journals, chair, and PC member/keynote speaker for many top international conferences. He is the Fellow of IEEE and the Distinguished Member of CCF.
Prof. Ke Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
（IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar Professor for Artificial Intelligence）
唐珂教授，南方科技大学
Biography:
Ke Tang is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). His major research interests include evolutionary computation, machine learning, and their applications. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Changjiang Scholar Professor for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the recipient of many national and international awards, such as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Early Career Award, the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, and the Newton Advanced Fellowship of the Royal Society, UK.