Invited Speakers  特邀嘉宾

Assoc. Prof. Shuai Yao
Southeast University, China

Dr. Shuai Yao is currently an associate professor in School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University (SEU). His research interests include underwater acoustic signal processing, array signal processing, signal detection and parameter estimation, and time-frequency analysis. He has taken charge of more than 5 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the pre-researches of the 13th Five-Year Plan. He has published nearly 20 papers and authorized more than 10 patents as the first author. As one of the main contributors, he won the First Grade Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education in 2017, the Second Grade National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, and the First Grade Science and Technology Progress Award from CSSC in 2019.

 

 

Prof. Chenguang Shi
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Chenguang Shi received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is currently an associate professor with the Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, NUAA, Ministry of Education. His main research interests include radar resource-aware management, low probability of intercept optimization, radar network signal processing, adaptive radar waveform design, and target tracking. He has published more than 80 scientific articles in refereed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, etc. He received the Best Paper Award in 2022 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, the Best Poster Award in 2021 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, the Best Paper Honorable Mentions in 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award from China Electronic Education Association in 2020, etc.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Lei Xie
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Lei Xie received the B.S. degree in information technology and the Ph.D. degree in underwater acoustic engineering from the School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China, in 2011 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2021, as a postdoctoral researcher, he was engaged in the research of ocean internal waves at Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
He is currently an associate professor and master supervisor of School of Marine Science and Technology, NWPU. His main research interests include ocean acoustics, underwater acoustic propagation in complex waveguide, underwater acoustic signal processing and parameter estimation. He has published more than 20 papers on Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, IEEE Access, IEEE OCEANS Conference, and so on. He serves as a reviewer for several journals, including Acta Acoustica, Chinese Physic B, IEEE Access.

 

 

Prof. Zhichao Zhang
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Zhichao Zhang is with the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, where he is currently a Full Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor. He has published more than 60 journal articles in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, Signal Processing, and Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. His current research interests include Mathematical Theories, Methods, and Applications in Signal and Information Processing. He was the Director of China Society for Computational Mathematics, the Managing Director of Jiangsu Mathematical Society, the Vice President of the Jiangsu Society for Computational Mathematics, the Director of the Jiangsu Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Deputy Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of Jiangsu Province, and the Executive Deputy Director of the Jiangsu International Joint Laboratory on System Modeling and Data Analysis. He served as the Youth Editorial Board Member of Electronics and Signal Processing, and the Conference Program Co-Chair, Area Chair, Technical Committee Member and Session Chair for many international conferences, such as the APSIPA ASC, ICICSP, ICSPS, ICOSP, and SPML. He was listed among world’s top 2% scientists recognized by Stanford University in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Xiaochen Yuan
Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, China

Xiaochen Yuan received her B.Sc. degree in Electronic Information Technology from the Macau University of Science and Technology in 2008, M.Sc. Degree in E-Commerce Technology and Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from the University of Macau in 2010 and 2013 respectively. From 2014 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Macau. From 2016 to 2021, she was an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Macau University of Science and Technology. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Macao Polytechnic University. Her research interests include Digital Watermarking, Multimedia Forensics, Tampering Detection and Self-Recovery, Remote Image Processing, and Deep Learning Techniques and Applications. So far, she has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in SCI(E)-indexed journals, and she has been served as reviewers for journals in related areas and served as technical committee members for international conferences in the past years.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Ming Zhang
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Ming Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2017. From 2011 to 2014, he was with Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Xi’an, China. He is currently an associate professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests include array signal processing and numerical optimization, with applications to radar, satellite navigation, and wireless communications. He has coauthored more than 20 papers in IEEE Signal Process. Mag., IEEE Trans. Signal Process., IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., and IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun. He received the Young Investigator Award in 2017 in the 7th ICICT and the Siyuan Scholar Award in 2023 at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Peixian Zhuang
University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Peixian Zhuang is currently an Associate Professor in the Key Laboratory of Knowledge Automation for Industrial Processes, Ministry of Education, the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. From 2020 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Research Fellow with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Lecturer with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
His research interests include sparse representation, Bayesian machine learning, and deep learning. He has published more than 40 research papers (IEEE TIP, TCVST, TGRS, etc.) in Image Processing and Computer Vision, with more than 1800 times of Google citations and 5 papers of highly cited ESI. He has been selected into the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Single-year Impact) in 2023. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations of Fujian province in 2017, and a winner of IFAC Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Paper Prize Award-Application in 2023. He has served as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, etc. He also served as the Session Chair for IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing in 2019, the Guest Editor for Journal of Electronics and Information Technology in 2021, the Top 25% reviewer of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2021, the Outstanding Reviewer of Journal of Electronics and Information Technology in 2022 and 2023, etc.