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. 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.