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Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jie Lu (IEEE & IFSA Fellow)
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in the field of computational intelligence,
primarily known for her work in fuzzy transfer learning, concept drift, recommender systems, and decision support systems.
She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Computer Society Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. Professor Lu
is the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
She has published six research books and over 500 papers in leading journals and conferences; won 10 Australian Research Council (ARC)
Discovery Projects and over 20 industry projects as leading chief investigator; and supervised 50 PhD students to completion.
Prof Lu serves as Editor-In-Chief for Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.
She is a recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She is the recipient of two
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards (2019 and 2022), NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award (2022),
Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019), Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award (2022),
Australian NSW Premier's Prize on Excellence in Engineering or Information & Communication Technology (2023), and the Officer of
the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2023.
Prof. Qing Li (IEEE Fellow)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Qing Li is a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management, conceptual data modeling, social media, Web services, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 500 publications in these areas, with over 36000 citations and H-index of 76 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an associate editor of a number of major technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Data Science and Engineering (DSE), and World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat on the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ER, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE.