| Prof. Zhifeng Hao, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shantou University, ChinaZhifeng Hao, President of Shantou University. Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology of the Ministry of Education. Vice Chairman of the University Mathematics Teaching Committee of the Ministry of Education. Deputy Director of the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and his researches focus on mathematical modeling and applications, data science, smart cities, and other areas. Hosted key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National "New Century Talent Support Program", the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Guangdong Joint Fund, and the Huo Yingdong Fund. He has won the Excellent Award of the China Patent Award, Ministry of Education Natural Science Foundation Award, and the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award. In 2020, he was awarded the title of "Leading Figure of Smart City Pioneer List", and in 2021, he was awarded the title of "Contemporary Inventor". |
Prof. Ling Wang, Tsinghua University, ChinaLing Wang received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1999, respectively, and now is a tenured Full Professor in Tsinghua Univ. His research interests mainly include intelligent optimization, scheduling and applications. He has authored 6 academic books and more than 500 SCI-indexed papers. His publications have attracted over 40K Google Scholar Citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems with Applications, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, International J of Automation and Control, Complex System Modeling and Simulation, and the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Evolutionary Computation, and the Editorial Board Member of Memetic Computing, Control Theory & Applications, Control and Decision, CIMS, System Engineering and Electronics, etc. Prof. Wang received National Natural Science Award of China (2nd Prize 2014), Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China (1st Prize 2003, 2nd Prize 2007, 2022 and 2025), Science and Technology Awards of Beijing City (2008), Yunnan Province (2017), Hubei Province (2021) and Hunan Province (2023), Technology Innovation Award (1st Prize 2019 and 2024) and Natural Science Award (1st Prize 2021 and 2022) of China Simulation Federation. He also received the INFORMS Franz Edelman Finalist Award (2023), Top Cited Article Award of EAAI (Elsevier), the Best Paper Awards of Acta Automatica Sinica (2014), Control Theory & Applications (2016), Control and Decision (2017), Journal of System Simulation (2021-2022). He was the recipient of National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2015), Young Talent of Science and Technology of Beijing (2004), New Century Excellent Talent in University by the MOE of China (2009), Academic Young Talent of Tsinghua University (2009), Young Scientist Award of CAA (2016), IEEE ICIC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, Chinese Most Cited Researcher by Elsevier (2019-2024) and IEEE TEVC Outstanding Associate Editor (2019-2025). |
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 | Prof. Han Huang, South China University of Technology, ChinaHuang Han, male, holds a PhD, and is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He is a recipient of the National Young Talent Program. His concurrent positions include: Associate Editor of international academic journals, namely IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IF: 12.0), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (IF: 6.5), and Complex & Intelligent Systems (IF: 4.6); Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robots, Ministry of Education; Director of the Guidance Committee for Software Engineering Major in Undergraduate Colleges and Universities of Guangdong Province; Director of the Software Engineering Professional Committee of Guangdong Computer Society; Distinguished Member of CCF and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been honored with the title of "National Outstanding Teacher" on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of National Demonstrative Software Colleges. He has presided over nearly 20 national and provincial-level projects, such as key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Guangdong Outstanding Youth Fund. He has published 3 Chinese monographs and 2 textbooks with national first-class publishing houses, as well as 2 English monographs with internationally renowned publishing houses. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 80 papers in professional academic journals including IEEE TCYB, IEEE TETC, IEEE TSE, IEEE TEVC, IEEE TIP, IEEE TFS, and Science China. He holds 59 authorized Chinese invention patents and 8 authorized U.S. invention patents as the first inventor. As the first completer, he has won the China Patent Excellence Award and the Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. His research team holds authoritative third-party testing qualifications at home and abroad, such as CMA, CNAS, and ISTQB. He has released 6 publicly available software systems, and has completed nearly 100 algorithm application cases. He has launched more than 10 vertical large models, covering multiple important fields such as education, finance (released at the International Big Data Expo), law (selected as an excellent case by the Ministry of Justice), shipping, accounting, medicine, and architecture. His "AI Empowers Thousands of Industries" program implemented by him has recorded over 300 cases, benefiting more than 600 institutions and 200,000 individual users. |
Prof. Hongyan Sang, Liaocheng University, ChinaHongyan Sang received the M.S. degree from Liaocheng University in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science Technology in 2013, now is a Professor in Liaocheng University. She has published more than 100 SCI-indexed papers. She is the Associate Editor of Expert Systems with Applications, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation and the Editorial Board Member of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Complex System Modeling and Simulation. Prof. Sang received Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China (2nd Prize 2025), Teaching Achievement Award (Grand Prize 2025) and Natural Science Award Technology Innovation Award(2nd Prize 2025) of China Simulation Federation, Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements of Shandong Provincial Universities(1st Prize 2015,2nd Prize 2016). She also received Top 2% Scientists, Shandong Provincial Teaching Master，Outstanding Woman Scientist of the Conference on Intelligent Optimization and Scheduling, SWEVO Best AE Award and CSMS Best Paper Award. |  |