Prof. Chunwei Tian

Harbin Institute of Technology

Chunwei Tian is a Professor and PhD Supervisor in the Faculty of Computing at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). His research interests include image restoration and recognition, as well as large model multimodality. He has been named among the World's Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists for four consecutive years. In recent years, he has published over 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions, Pattern Recognition, and NeurIPS, accumulating more than 6,600 citations. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE), and Pattern Recognition. He was awarded the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award (Ranked 1st) by the China Society of Image and Graphics in 2024 and the First Prize of the Natural Science Award by Guangdong Province in 2024.

Prof. Xiangbo Shu

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Xiangbo Shu is a Professor, PhD Supervisor, and Vice Dean at the School of Computer Science and Engineering / School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST). He also serves as the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Social Safety Information Perception and System, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund and the Jiangsu Province Outstanding Youth Fund.

Prof. Shu's research primarily focuses on computer vision and human behavior computing, where he has achieved notable results in areas such as cross-age face recognition, group activity analysis, and skeleton-based action analysis. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, CVPR, and ICCV, with several papers designated as ESI Highly Cited Papers. His honors include the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from Jiangsu Province, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and a Best Paper Nomination at ACM MM 2015. He has been consistently named among the World's Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists (2021-2025).