| Prof. Yushu Zhang, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China BIO: Since 2013, he has published over 100 papers in top-tier journals and conferences including USENIX Security, ACM MM, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TSC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TIP, IEEE TC, and IEEE JSAC. Their work has received more than 10,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 61, and 18 of their papers have been listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers. They have led a series of key research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Project (Category B, formerly the "Excellent Young Scientists Fund"), national key R&D program tasks, NSFC General Program Projects, and the Jiangxi Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. They were selected as an Innovative Leading Talent under Jiangxi Province's "Ganpo Talents Program". In 2024, their paper titled Once-for-all: Efficient Visual Face Privacy Protection via Person-specific Veils published in ACM MM won the Honourable Mention Award. Additionally, they serve as an Associate Editor for multiple international SCI-indexed journals, including IEEE TDSC (CCF Class A), Information Sciences (CAS JCR Tier 1), and Signal Processing (CAS JCR Tier 2). |
| Prof. Qijun Zhao, Sichuan University, China BIO: From 1999 to 2006, Dr. Zhao obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2006 to 2010, he earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He conducted postdoctoral research at Michigan State University from 2010 to 2012, and returned to China in 2012 to join Sichuan University, where he has served as an associate professor and professor. Since August 2019, he has been supporting Tibet as the Deputy Dean and discipline leader of the School of Information Science and Technology at Tibet University. Dr. Zhao has been engaged in research in the fields of biometric recognition and computer vision, with recent research interests primarily focusing on 3D modeling and recognition and their applications in criminal science, video surveillance, healthcare, human-computer interaction, as well as object detection and recognition and their applications in ecological surveys, wildlife protection, and crowd analysis. Dr. Zhao has published over 80 academic conference and journal papers, including those in CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, ICB, PR, IEEE TPAMI, and IEEE TIFS, and has authored and translated two books related to computer vision. He holds one U.S. patent and five Chinese patents. Dr. Zhao has led research projects, including youth and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, sub-projects of the 13th Five-Year Plan's key R&D program, provincial and ministerial projects, and several industry collaboration projects. He has long served as a reviewer for well-known journals and conferences in his field, such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, PR, PRL, ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, ICIP, and ICPR. |
| Prof. Lu Leng, Nanchang Hangkong University, China BIO: Prof. Leng Received his Ph.D degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, in 2012. He performed his postdoctoral research at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, P. R. China. He was a visiting scholar at West Virginia University, USA, and Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, he is a full professor, the dean of Institute of Computer Vision, and the office director of Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at Nanchang Hangkong University.Prof. Leng has published more than 100 international journal and conference papers, including about 70 SCI papers and three highly cited papers. He has been granted several scholarships and funding projects, including six projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He serves as a reviewer of more than 100 international journals and conferences. His research interests include computer vision, biometric template protection and biometric recognition. Prof. Leng is an outstanding representative of "Innovation Talent" of Jiangxi Enterprise in "Science and Technology China", received "Jiangxi Youth May Fourth Medal", "Jiangxi Hundred-Thousand-Ten-thousand Talent Project", "Jiangxi Voyage Project", etc. |
