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Jianquan Liu is currently the Director and Head of Video Insights Discovery Research Group at the Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation, working on the topics of multimedia data processing. He is also a visiting professor at Nagoya University and an adjunct professor at Hosei University, Japan. Prior to NEC, he was a development engineer in Tencent Inc. from 2005 to 2006, and was a visiting researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. His research interests include high-dimensional similarity search, multimedia databases, web data mining and information retrieval, cloud storage and computing, and social network analysis. He has published 70+ papers at major international/domestic conferences and journals, received 30+ international/domestic awards, and filed 70+ PCT patents. He also successfully transformed these technological contributions into commercial products in the industry. Currently, he is/was serving as the Industry Co-chair of IEEE ICIP 2023, 2025 and ACM MM 2023, 2024; the General Co-chair of IEEE MIPR 2021; the PC Co-chair of IEEE IRI 2022, ICME 2020, AIVR 2019, BigMM 2019, ISM 2018, ICSC 2018, ISM 2017, ICSC 2017, IRC 2017, and BigMM 2016; the Workshop Co-chair of IEEE AKIE 2018 and ICSC 2016; the Demo Co-chair of IEEE MIPR 2019 and MIPR 2018. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and a member of IEICE, IPSJ, APSIPA and the Database Society of Japan (DBSJ), a member of expert committee for IEICE Mathematical Systems Science and its Applications (2017-), and IEICE Data Engineering (2015-2021), and an associate editor of IEEE TMM (2023-), ACM TOMM (2022-), EURASIP JIVP (2023-), IEEE MultiMedia Magazine (2019-2022), ITE Transaction on Media Technology and Applications (2021-), APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (2022-), and the Journal of Information Processing (2017-2021). Dr. Liu received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

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Prof. Looi obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on learning sciences, computer-supported collaborative learning, mobile learning, AI in education, and computational thinking. He has had published more than 120 papers in international journal papers, as well as over 50 books or chapters, and produced 160 refereed international conference papers. Professor Looi has given more than 90 keynote speeches, and plenary and invited talks at international conferences and institutions. His research has had a high level of influence on educational practices. His work on rapid collaborative learning was cited in the 2010 US National Educational Technology Plan as a key example of technology-enabled innovation of significant impact. Professor Looi is a Fellow of the International Society of Learning Sciences, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. During his stint at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Professor Looi was the founding head of the Learning Sciences Lab, the first research centre devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He served as the President of the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education from 2017 to 2019.

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Raian Ali has been a Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and a UNESCO chair in digital technologies and human behaviour (June 2025–June 2029). He obtained his PhD from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2010, and has previously worked at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and Bournemouth University in the UK. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Latakia (formerly Tishreen University), Syria. His research primarily focuses on technology and human behaviour, encompassing topics such as digital addiction, responsible technology use, and the impact of technology design on human well-being. He is a member of the steering committee for the Society of Persuasive Systems, and of the steering committee of the Behaviour and Social Computing community. He has led projects with academic and industry partners, resulting in significant impact, outreach, policy change, and scientific publications. Notably, he leads the $3.8 million cluster on digital citizenship in Qatar (2022–2027), supervising six projects, collaborating with over 15 national and international partners, and managing a team of 50 personnel. Raian also provides consultancy both nationally and internationally.

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Masakazu Iwamura (Member, IEEE) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Core Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University. His research interests include text and object recognition and visually impaired assistance. He has received numerous awards, including the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award, in 2011, the Best Paper Awards of IEICE, in 2008 and 2021, the IAPR/ICDAR Best Paper Award, in 2007, the IAPR Nakano (Best Paper) Award, in 2010, the ICFHR Best Paper Award, in 2010, the MVA Best Paper Award, in 2017, and the SIGACCESS Best Paper Award, in 2023. He served as the Vice-Chair of the IAPR Technical Committee 11 (Reading Systems), from 2016 to 2018, an Associate Editor of International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, from 2013 to 2023, and an Associate Editor and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, from 2017 to 2021 and from 2021 to 2023, respectively.

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Dr. Tzafestas obtained Electrical and Computer Engineer from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. on Artificial Intelligence from University Paris VI, France. She is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the former Director of Laboratory of Cognitive Science (2018-2022). She has taught a number of undergraduate courses on computer science and graduate courses on intelligent, complex and biological systems. In the University of Athens, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, complex systems and modeling. She has been the principal investigator in numerous national and European R&D projects and has authored over a hundred articles in journals, books and conference proceedings, most of them as a single author. She serves on several editorial boards and is frequent reviewer for journals, conferences and research grants. Her research interests lie on the intersection of complex and cognitive systems and focus on modeling of social, biological and psychological behavior. She is also interested in generative art and sustainable development. Her long-term research objective is to better understand the origins of human intelligence.

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Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he also completed his bachelor's degree. Dr. Wu furthered his research as a visiting scholar at the University of Technology Sydney and as a postdoctoral fellow at Zhejiang University. Dr. Wu currently leads User Profiling Group of Fuxi AI Lab, NetEase Inc. His interests cover a wide range of domains like user modeling, personalization, behavior analysis, and AI for novel applications. He has published 30+ top-tier AI conference/journal papers like KDD, AAAI, ICDE, CIKM, TKDE, TKDD, TOIS etc., and served as SPC/PC/reviewer for top-tier conferences and journals. His research outcomes have been successfully applied and integrated into many top online games released by NetEase Games.

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Li Xin, Ph.D. and the senior engineer, is the vice president of the AI Research Institute and the head of the R&D department of iFLYTEK. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from and served as postdoctoral researcher and associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and was a visiting scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is also a researcher at the National Key Laboratory for Cognitive Intelligence, a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF), the member of the Executive Committee of the CCF's Big Data Committee, the member of council in the China Association of Standardization (CAS), the deputy director of Brain-Computer Interface and Brain-inspired Intelligence Special Committee of CAS, and the vice chairman of the System and Industry Application Group in Brain-Computer Interface Alliance (BCIA). He is also a young expert of the China Internet Society and a founding editor of the Journal of Natural Language Processing, and received “The Young 30” honor of Brain Science and Brain-like Intelligence, KSEM and CIKM best paper/ runners up award. He is mainly responsible for the application research of artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience technology in education, medical and other fields. He has led and participated in multiple projects including the 2030 Program and the key research and development programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, along with several funds of Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 90 papers and patents in top international academic conferences and well-known journals.