Prof. Zhen Zhang, Zhengzhou University, China

Philippe Fournier-Viger (Ph.D) is a Canadian researcher, distinguished professor at Shenzhen University (China). Five years after completing his Ph.D., he came to China in 2015 and became full professor after receiving a talent title from the National Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 375 research papers related to data mining algorithms for complex data (sequences, graphs), intelligent systems and applications, which have received more than 13,000 citations. He is the founder of the popular SPMF data mining library, offering more than 250 algorithms to find patterns in data, cited in more than 1,000 research papers. He is former associate editor-in-chief of the Applied Intelligence journal and has been keynote speaker for over 20 international conferences and co-edited four books for Springer. He is a co-founder of the UDML, PMDB and MLiSE series of workshops held at the ICDM, PKDD, DASFAA and KDD conferences. 

Prof. Huiyu Zhou, University of Leicester, UK

Prof. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, supervised by Professors Patrick Green (Psychology) and Andrew Wallace (Computer Engineering).
Prof. Zhou heads the AI and Machine Learning Group and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL) at University of Leicester. He was Director of MSc Programme (2018-2019) and Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning at Informatics (2018-2022), and is PGR Director of CMS, Deputy Director of Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM) and Member of the Executive Group of Apollo-Leicester Centre for Digital Health and Precision Medicine. Prior to this appointment, he worked as Reader (2018-2020) at University of Leicester, and Lecturer (2012-2017) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast (QUB). He was a visiting scholar of QUB during 2018-2020.

Assoc. Prof. Lei Chen, Shandong University, China

Chen Lei, PhD / Postdoctoral, Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Master 's Tutor. He graduated from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada, and graduated from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University with bachelor 's and master 's degrees. Young scholar future plan of Shandong University, member of Chinese Society of Automation. 

. The main research directions are image processing and computer vision, visual quality evaluation and image enhancement, abnormal behavior analysis, digital watermarking, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is currently chairing a number of national and provincial scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R & D Program, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, the China Postdoctoral Fund, and has participated in the Canadian Science and Engineering Research Fund.