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.

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.

Zhigeng Pan got his Ph.D degree in 1993, and he became a full professor in Zhejiang University in 1996 because of his excellent academic performance. He has published more than 100 technical papers on important journals (such as PAMI, TVCG, IEEE Multimedia,..) and conferences (such as ACM Multimedia, IEEE VR, et al ). He is a member of IEEE, ACM SIGGRAPH. His research interests include virtual reality, computer graphics and HCI. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on Edutainment. He is the program co-chair of CASA’2011, SIGGRAPH Asia 2011（Sketches and Posters）, IEEE VR 2013,SIGGRAPH Asia’2016(Symposium on Education), and the conference co-chair of VRCAI’2012/ VRCAI’2013/VRCAI’2015/CW’2016.

Professor Dave Towey received the BA and MA degrees in computer science, linguistics, and languages from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland; the MEd degree in education leadership from the University of Bristol, U.K.; and the PhD degree in computer science from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China. He has been with University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) since 2013, where he serves as the associate dean for education and student experience, the deputy head of the School of Computer Science, and as deputy director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre. His current research interests include software testing (especially adaptive random testing, for which he was amongst the earliest researchers who established the field, and metamorphic testing) and technology-enhanced education. He co-founded the ICSE International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing in 2016. He is a fellow of the HEA, and a senior member of the ACM and IEEE.