Prof. Hong Zhang
Fellow of lEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. ZHANG Hong is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).
Prior to joining SUSTech, he was a Professor in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada where he worked for over 30 years. Over his career,
Dr. Zhang has trained over 80 graduate students at MSc and PhD levels and post-doctoral fellows, who have moved on to their successful and important positions in academia
and industry. Dr. Zhang's research interests include robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, and image processing. He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair
from 2003-2017, and made significant contributions in robotics research. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IROS Conference Paper Review Board,
a flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. In recognition of his many contributions, Dr. Zhang was elected a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of
the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Lizhuang Ma
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Lizhuang Ma received his B. Sc. and Ph.D. degree at Zhejiang University, China in 1985 and 1991 respectively. Dr. Ma was promoted as Professor in 1995.
He was a visiting Professor at CAMTech, NTU, Singapore from 1999 to 2000. He is now a distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of AI Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China. Dr. Ma is the recipient of China National Excellent Young Scientist Foundation, first class member of China National Hundred-Thousand-Ten -thousand Talent
Plan in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He was awarded Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award grand prize, first prize and second prize in 2020, 2011 and 2014
respectively. He serves as the chairman of the specialized Committee of Animation and Digital Media, Chinese Society of Image Graphics. His research interests include
computer vision, computer graphics and digital media technology. He has published more than 400 papers include IEEE TPAMI, TIP, CVPR, ICCV.