Speakers

Prof. Pingyi Fan, a tenured professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University,  Director of the Open Source Data Cognition Innovation Center, Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) of the United States, recipient of the NAAI 2025 AI Exploration Award, recipient of the NAAI Outstanding Scientist Award, co-chair of the Academic Committee of the NAAI Asia Research Institute, and member of the NAAI Global Governance and AI Safety Committee, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and member of the IET Fellow International Review Committee. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) (2024-2026), Editor-in-chief for the microwave and wireless communication field of MDPI Electronics, and Chair of China 6G-ANA TG4 etc.. His main research areas include 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and big data processing theory, as well as intelligent network and system detection etc.

Xie Shengli, distinguished Professor of the Hundred Talents Program, School of Automation of Guangdong University of Technology, Doctoral tutor, director of the Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, winner of the National Outstanding Young Science Foundation, winner of the National Natural Science Award, subject leader of the Innovation Team of the Xie Shengli serves as distinguished Professor of the Hundred Talents Program at the School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, doctoral tutor and director of the Institute of Intelligent Information Processing. He was the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was nominated as a discipline leader of the Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education and the training target of the “Thousand-Hundred-Ten Talent Project” in Guangdong Province. In addition, he serves as the chairman of IoT Information Technology and Industrialization Industry-University-Rresearch Innovation Alliance in Guangdong Province, director of Guangdong Internet of Things Common Technology R&D Engineering Center, vice president of China Digital Home Industry Association, deputy director of Information Appliance Professional Committee of China Software Association, deputy director of Guangdong RFID Standards Technical Committee, vice chairmen of Automation Association in Guangdong Province, associate editor of IEEE Trans. NNLS and Control Theory& Application.

In 1993, he was given the title of "Middle-aged and Young Experts with Outstanding Contributions" by the Hubei Provincial Government. He was selected as the first batch of "Cross-century Discipline Leaders" in Hubei Province In 1996 and the training target for provincial discipline leader of the "Thousand-Hundred-Ten Talent Project" in Guangdong Province in 1998. In 2002, he was nominated as the training target of the "Cross-century Excellent Talents" and awarded as one of the "National Backbone Teachers" by the Ministry of Education. In 2003, he was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 2004, he was selected as the training target of the "Thousand-Hundred-Ten Talent Project" by Guangdong Province. In 2007, he was nominated as the discipline leader of the "Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education", and received rolling support in 2014.

He has long been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of communication, control and signal processing. The main research interests include intelligent information processing, wireless communication and network, multimedia transmission, and radio frequency identification, etc. He has chaired more than 30 national and provincial major projects, including some key projects by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Project, the key technology breakthrough bidding projects in major areas of Guangdong and Hong Kong, Innovation Team of the Ministry of Education, and the Guangdong Natural Science Innovation team. He also won eight provincial and ministerial science and technology awards (of which five first prizes) and one international competition first prize. He has authored or coauthored four books published in Science Press and Tsinghua University Press, and over 100 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings. Published more than 100 papers.