Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ting-Chung Poon, IEEE/IOP/OSA/SPIE Fellow

Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA

Biography: Ting-Chung Poon is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, USA. His current research interests include Information Optics and Optical Scanning Holography (OSH). He is Fellow of Optica, the SPIE, the IoP, and a life Fellow of the IEEE. In 2016, he received SPIE’s Dennis Gabor Award. He is the recipient of the 2024 Optica’s Emmett N. Leith Medal.

 

 

Prof. James Kwok, IEEE Fellow

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China

Biography: James Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Prof Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is serving / served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and on the Editorial Board of Machine Learning. He is also serving as Senior Area Chairs of major machine learning / AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and as Area Chairs of conferences including AAAI and ECML. He is on the IJCAI Board of Trustees. He is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for "outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI between 2009 and 2019". Prof Kwok is the IJCAI-2025 Program Chair.

 

 

Invited Speakers

Assoc. Prof. Cheng Siong CHIN

Newcastle University in Singapore, Singapore

Biography: Dr. Cheng Chin received his Ph.D in Applied Control Engineering at Research Robotics Centre in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008 and M.Sc. (Distinction) in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2001. He also graduated with a B.Eng (Hons) in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from NTU in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor (Reader) and Director of Innovation at Newcastle University on the Singapore campus.
He was a Lecturer in Mechatronics Engineering at Temasek Polytechnic. He worked in the consumer electronics industry for more than 4 years before moving into academia. He currently holds 3 U.S. Patents in the area of electronics test systems and components. His research interests include intelligent systems modeling and designing complex systems under uncertain environments such as marine electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and acoustic systems. He is an author/co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers on journals and conference proceedings. He is the Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal, and IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC) eNewsletter. He has served as General Chair, Session Chair, and Technical Committee in various international conferences.

 

Assoc. Prof. Zhiqiang Miao

Hunan University, China

Biography: Zhiqiang Miao received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Information Engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2010 and 2016 respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. From 2016 to 2018, he was a post-doc fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Now he is an Associate Professor with the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, and also a Research Professor at the National Engineering Laboratory for Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University. His research interests include multi-robot systems, mobile robotics, visual navigation, and nonlinear control.
He was the recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of Hunan Province in 2021, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hunan Province in 2018, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award of Chinese Association of Automation in 2018, the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2020, the Best Paper Award of Youth Academic Conference of the Chinese Association of Automation in 2021, the Best Paper Finalist of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics in 2017, and Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics in 2021. He served as the Workshop Associate Editor of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and the Technical Committee Member of several international conferences.