Zhengyou Zhang

Zhengyou Zhang (Tencent AI Lab) is currently the Director of the AI Laboratory and Robotics X, Tencent. He has published more than 250 papers in top international conferences and journals, which have been cited more than 76,000 times, and he holds nearly 200 issued patents. His research interests include computer vision, multimedia technology, motion analysis, robot navigation, immersive remote interaction along with other areas of contribution. He received the IEEE Helmholtz Test of Time Award in 2013 for his “Zhang’s Camera Calibration Method”. 

Zhou Wang

Dr. Zhou Wang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is the IEEE Fellow, the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In addition, he is a certified Professional Engineer. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2021 Faculty of Engineering Excellence in Graduate Supervision Award, 2021 Technology Emmy Award, 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award, and 2015 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award. Other accolades include the 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Award, 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and several NSERC and Ontario Early Researcher grants. His research interests encompass signal and image processing, computational vision and pattern analysis, multimedia coding and communications, and biomedical signal and image processing. With over 200 publications and more than 80,000 citations.

Wen Gao

Wen Gao​ (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) is a Boya Chair Professor and Dean of the Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Computational Science (CFCS). He is the Founding Director of Pengcheng Lab and previously founded the National Engineering Laboratory for Video Technology (NELVT) at the university. Internationally recognized for his contributions to artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision, and image/video processing, he has served as Chief Scientist of China’s National Basic Research Program (973 Program) on Video Coding Technology and as Vice President of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was featured by IEEE Spectrum as one of China’s “Ten to Watch” leading technologists.