Prof. Chuan Qin, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China

Chuan Qin received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering and the M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2008. Since Dec. 2008, he has been with the faculty of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor. He was with Feng Chia University at Taiwan as a Postdoctoral Researcher from July 2010 to July 2012. His research interests include multimedia intelligent computing, AI security, data hiding and image processing in encrypted domain. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, such as IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TKDE, and ACM MM. He has also published one book and held six authorized patents. He was selected as the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier in 2020 and the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2020-2024. He won the Excellent Paper Awards of CIHW 2016 and ChinaMFS 2023, and the Candidate of Excellent Paper Award of IEEE IIHMSP 2014. He has served as the Associate Editor for ACM TOMM, Signal Processing (Elsevier) and Information Fusion (Elsevier).

Prof. Tao Qi, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Tao Qi received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the Department of Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2020 and 2024, respectively. He is currently a tenure-track Professor in the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His current research focuses on AI security, data privacy protection, LLM, and data mining. He has published 13 first-author papers in leading machine learning journals and conference proceedings, such as Nature Communications, NeurIPS, ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, EMNLP etc. He has won the Nomination Award of the 2022 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, ACM SIGWEB China Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Tsinghua Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award.

Assoc. Prof. Xiaochen Yuan, Macao Polytechnic University, China

Xiaochen Yuan received the Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from the University of Macau in 2013. From 2014 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Macau. From 2016 to 2021, she was an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Macau University of Science and Technology. Since 2021, she joined the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the Macao Polytechnic University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include Multimedia Forensics and Security, Digital Watermarking, AI Model Security, Quantum Watermarking, Remote Image Processing, and Deep Learning Techniques and Applications. She has published more than 70 SCIE-indexed scientific articles in refereed journals, such as IEEE TIFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TMI, IEEE TIM, IEEE TETC, IEEE JSTARS, etc. and she has been served as reviewers for top-tier journals in related areas, as well as the program committee member, session chair, and regional chair for ICSPS, ICSIP, ICSTE, etc. She is also a member of CCF, a member of CSIG, and a senior member of IEEE.