MLISE 2025
Prof. Weijia Jia
IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Member of CCF
Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, China
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. Yuhui Shi
IEEE Fellow
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Dr. Yuhui Shi is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Before joining SUSTech, he was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU),Suzhou, China, from January 2008 to August 2016, and was with the Electronic Data Systems Corporation(EDS), Indiana, USA, from October 1998 to December 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research. Dr. Shi co-authored a book on Swarm Intelligence together with Dr. James Kennedy and Dr. Russell C. Eberhart, and another book on ComputationalIntelligence: Concept to Implementation together with Dr. Russell C. Eberhart.