 | Prof. Mouquan Shen, Nanjing Tech University, ChinaDirector of the professor committee of School of Electrical Engineering and Control Science, Nanjing Tech University. Listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists (2024, 2025); Postdoctoral Fellow of Southeast University, Visiting Scholar of University of Adelaide, Australia. Selected in "2025 Six Talent Peaks" of Jiangsu Province. PI over 10 provincial and ministerial-level research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Authored more than 100 SCI-indexed papers, including 3 ESI Hot Papers and 15 ESI Highly Cited Papers. Granted over 20 authorized Chinese invention patents. Recipient of the 2023 Jiangsu Provincial Higher Education Scientific Research Achievement Award (Third Prize) and the 2024 Jiangsu Association of Automation Science and Technology Award (Second Prize). Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member for international journals including ISA Transactions. Has chaired or co-chaired multiple domestic and international conferences, and delivered Keynote/Distinguished young scholar/Invited talks at various academic events. Regular reviewer for prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. |
 | Prof. Weihua Xu, Southwest University, ChinaWeihua Xu, a professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence at Southwest University, is a doctoral supervisor, a leader in academic and technical fields in Chongqing, a key teacher for young and middle-aged teachers in Chongqing, and Lecture Professor of Minjiang Scholar. He also serves as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society, a senior member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the deputy director of the Knowledge Engineering and Distributed Intelligence Committee of CAAI, the secretary-general of the Granular Computing and Knowledge Discovery Committee of CAAI. He is the associate editor of the international SCI journals IJMLC and JIFS, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Zhengzhou University (Science Edition). He has published over 260 papers in high-level domestic and international academic journals such as IEEE TCYB, IEEE TFS, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TBD, IEEE TAI, INF, INS, KBS, FSS, etc., with over 180 papers indexed by SCI (times), over 7800 citations on Google Scholar, an H-index of 47, and 11 papers selected as ESI highly cited papers. He has published 5 academic works with the Science Press. He has successively presided over 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 20 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological projects, won the third prize of the Hebei Province Natural Science Award, and has served multiple times as (co-)chair of international (domestic) academic conference programs and youth forums. He has been invited multiple times to give keynote speeches at international (domestic) academic conferences. He has achieved certain research results in the fields of artificial intelligence, data mining, cognitive computing, granular computing, information fusion, and knowledge engineering. From 2020 to the prsent, he has been contiously selected the Global Top 2% Most Cited Scientists and Lifetime Scientific Influence Rankings. |
 | Prof. Jianjun Ni, Hohai University, ChinaJianjun Ni , Ph.D., Professor, Academic Doctoral Supervisor in Artificial Intelligence and Information and Communication Engineering, Professional Doctoral Supervisor in Electronic Information, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Hohai University. He serves as an evaluation expert for scientific and technological projects and awards under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Scholarship Council, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as provinces and municipalities such as Jiangsu and Beijing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, a Senior Member of the China Computer Federation, a Visiting Professor at the University of Guelph (Canada) and the University of Essex (UK), and a recognized Young and Middle-Aged Scientific and Technological Leader under the "333 Project" of Jiangsu Province. He has been named to the global list of the top 2% of scientists (jointly released by Stanford University and Elsevier). His primary research directions include information acquisition and processing, artificial intelligence and robotics, and machine learning. He has led and participated in 6 national-level projects, over 10 provincial and ministerial-level projects, and more than 30 projects at various other levels. He has published over 150 papers, with more than 100 indexed by SCI, an H-index of 23, and several papers selected as ESI global top 1% highly cited papers. He holds over 50 invention patents, has authored or co-authored 5 academic monographs and textbooks, and has received one Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. |