 | Prof. Daowen QiuSun Yat-sen University, China Daowen Qiu, Doctor of Science, finished a postdoctoral follow from Tsinghua University in August 2002, and then was associated with Sun Yat-sen University under the "Hundred Talents Program" in the same year. He has been appointed as a full professor of computer science and a supervisor of the doctoral students since 2004. Also, he has engaged in research on quantum computing and quantum information for more than 20 years, and focuses on quantum computing models, quantum query algorithms, distributed quantum algorithms, (fuzzy, probabilistic, and quantum) automata and discrete event systems. His research integrates classical and quantum computational processing, aiming to achieve better physical realizability with essentially superior to classical computation as well. He has published more than 200 academic papers in academic journals and conferences and one academic monograph on quantum automata. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member of Theoretical Computer Science, an associate editor of Frontiers in Computer Science, and an editorial board member of Quantum Reports. |
| Prof. Le LuoSun Yat-sen University, China Le Luo, a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Sun Yat-sen University, is a prominent scholar recruited through the Hundred Talents Program and recognized as a distinguished young talent under the Guangdong Zhujiang Talent Plan. His research endeavors revolve around atomic and molecular optical physics, quantum information science, and precision measurement techniques. Professor Luo has spearheaded various research initiatives, including a General Program funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a pivotal core technology development project aligned with Sun Yat-sen University’s “Three Major Construction” initiative, specifically involving trapped ion distributed quantum computing. He has authored over 30 academic publications that have garnered more than 2,500 citations, with appearances in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters. His research accomplishments have garnered attention in news articles published by Nature and Science, as well as on the cover of Physics Today, a publication of the American Institute of Physics. Professor Luo has been honored with numerous awards, including the Wang Daheng Optical Award for Graduate Students bestowed by the Chinese Optical Society, the Fritz London Doctoral Research Award, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Overseas, the United Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Award, the Purdue University Foundation Faculty Research Grant, and the Indiana University Collaborative Research Award. |
Prof. Jiawen KangSouthwest University, China Jiawen Kang , professor and assistant dean of Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong High-level Young Talent Program, was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a visiting scholar at Princeton University in the United States and the University of Waterloo in Canada; he is engaged in the research of blockchain, meta-universe, and artificial intelligence. He has been selected as one of the top 2% of the world's top scientists and the AI2000 list of the most influential scholars in the world in artificial intelligence. He has been awarded the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the IEEE HITC Early Career Achievement Award, and the IEEE SCSTC Early Career Achievement Award; he has published more than 200 papers, and 20 ESL papers, and more than 200 papers in the field of blockchain. He has published more than 200 papers, 20 ESI highly cited papers, 4 ESI hot papers, 18 authorized invention patents, and more than 16,000 citations in Google Scholar. Best Paper Award, Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE CSIM Technical Committee, Outstanding Paper Award of Computer Society of Guangdong Province, and related achievements have been awarded the Silver Prize of China Patent Award, the First Prize of Science and Technology of Intelligent Transportation of Guangdong Province, the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Intelligent Transportation Association of Guangdong Province, as well as the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau Artificial Intelligence and Automation Society, and the First Prize of Natural Science. He serves as an editorial board member of 15 prestigious journals including IEEE Comst, JSAC, TMC, TCCN, ComMag, TNSE, TVT, etc. and co-chair of 20 well-known international conferences. |
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 | Prof. Pietro S. OlivetoSouthern University of Science and Technology, ChinaPietro Oliveto received the Laurea degree and PhD degree in computer science respectively from the University of Catania, Italy in 2005 and from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2009. He has been EPSRC PhD+ Fellow (2009-2010) and EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2013) at the University of Birmingham, UK and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow (2013-2016) and EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2015-2020) at the University of Sheffield, UK. Before moving to SUSTech he was Chair in Algorithms at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK.His main research interest is the performance analysis, in particular the time complexity, of bio-inspired computation techniques including evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, artificial immune systems, hyper-heuristics and algorithm configuration. He is currently building a Theory of Artificial Intelligence Lab at SUSTech. He has guest-edited journal special issues of Computer Science and Technology, Evolutionary Computation, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Algorithmica. He has co-Chaired the IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI) from 2015 to 2021 and has been co-program Chair of the ACM Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2021) and Theory Track co-chair at GECCO 2022 and GECCO 2023. He is part of the Steering Committee of the annual workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH), was Leader of the Benchmarking Working Group of the COST Action ImAppNIO, is member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. |