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Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dianxiang Xu
University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Biography: Dr. Xu is a Professor of Computer Science and serves as the Division Director of Computing, Analytics, and Mathematics in the School of Science and Engineering.
Additionally, he is the Point of Contact for the Cybersecurity Center, an NSA-designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R). Dr. Xu earned his
BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China. Before joining UMKC in 2019, he held faculty positions at several otherinstitutions. His research areas
include: software security, access control, digitalforensics, software testing, software-de fined networking, and intelligent agents. Dr. Xu is a senior member of the IEEE.
Southeast University, China
Biography: Prof. Yudong Zhang is the Chief Professor at Southeast University and has held full professorships at various Eurafrasia universities. He is recognized as a national and international
high-level talent, having (co-)authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles in Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals, according to CAS journal rankings. He is the (co-)Principal Investigator for numerous international grants,
including those from the NIH and EPSRC.
Prof. Zhang has chaired many IEEE and ACM conferences and served as a reviewer for prestigious awards, including Member of the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Marie Curie Fellowship, FIEEE, and FIET.
He also reviews grants for organizations like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Horizon Europe, Swiss National Science Foundation, Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR, Singapore), Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS),
and Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
His research interests include artificial intelligence, large language models, and X-ray and CT imaging, reflecting his dedication to advancing these critical fields.
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Biography: Huan Zhou, professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, is a Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Project.
He is an IEEE Senior Member, a CCF Senior Member, and has been selected as one of the top 2% scientists in the world from 2022 to 2024. His main research areas include
edge intelligence, connected vehicles, artificial intelligence, federated learning, and crowd intelligence computing. He has published over 100 high-level academic papers,
including IEEE JSAC, TMC, TPDS, TSC, TWC, TCC, ICDCS, and other internationally renowned journals and important international conferences. He is currently serving as an editorial
board member for the SCI journals EURISIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and PLOS ONE; and have held academic positions such as TPC Chair for international
conferences AIoTSys 2024, GameNets 2022, and BDTA 2020, and Track Chair for IEEE ICET. 2022/2023. He has won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference I-SPAN 2014/2018
and IEEE iSCI 2022, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Society of Automation in 2016, and the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Society
of Automation in 2023.
Prof. Yudong Zhang (FIEEE, FIET)
Prof. Huan Zhou