SPEAKERS

Lei Meng is Professor with the School of Software, Shandong University. He received the B.Eng.’s degree in 2010 from Shandong University, China, and obtained the PhD’s degree in 2015 from Nanyang Technological University. From 2015 to 2020, he worked successively at Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore as Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow. His research interests include multimedia computing, deep learning, and its applications in healthcare and digital twin for social governance. He has published a book with Springer and fifty conference and journal papers at top and renowned venues, such as MM, AAAI, TKDE and TNNLS. He serves as the Associate Editor of Applied Soft Computing, and the (senior) program committee member of top-tier conferences, such as MM, AAAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR.

Liying Zheng received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, China, in 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Harbin Engineering University. In 2009, she was also a visiting fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her search interests focus on image processing, object detection, and object tracking. She has authored or co-authored more than 40 transactions and conference papers and took charge of two research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2013 and 2014, she and her collaborators organized a special session on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics. She delivered a plenary speech on the 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing.