Prof. Mingwu Zhang, Hubei University of Technology, China
Biography: Mingwu Zhang (IEEE Member) is a professor with the School of Computer Science in Hubei University of Technology. From 2010 to 2012, he has been a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Society of Promotion Sciences at Institute of Mathematics for Industry in Kyushu University, Japan. From 2015 to 2016, he has been a Senior Visiting Professor with the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Australia. His research interests include networks and data security, secure computation and privacy preservation in big-data, AI, clouds and crowdsensing, etc. He has been served as the Program Chair of ProvSec'23、EIDWT'17、AsiaJCIS'14、JWIS'10, etc. He published over 100 articles in international conferences and journals such as ASIACRYPT, ACISP, IEEE-TIFS, TCS, DCC, IEEE-TDSC, IEEE-TSC, IEEE-TVT, etc. He received eight Best Paper Awards in international conference such as ACISP'18, Inscrypt'18, FCS'24 and SocialSec'22, etc.
Prof. Xin Xu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Biography: Xin Xu (Senior Member, IEEE) received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and image processing. More specifically, his research areas focus on building a hierarchical person re-identification architecture including detection and recognition for nighttime surveillance scenarios. He has published more than 160 papers. His publication was shortlisted as the Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in 2021 and the Spotlight Paper of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in 2025. He serves as the Academic Editor for several prestigious journals and delivers Keynote speeches at international conferences.