Professor Xiaoyan Gui

Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Bio: Xiaoyan Gui graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Ph.D. She previously worked at Broadcom Corporation, Irvine as a Principal Scientist. Since 2012, she has held positions as Assistant Professor, Tenured Associate Professor, and Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and Xi’an Jiaotong University. Her main research areas include high-speed wired communication/optical communication and wireless communication integrated circuit design. She has published over 60 papers in international journals and conferences such as ISSCC, CICC, ESSCIRC, IMS, TCAS-I/II, TMTT, TVLSI, MWCL, MWTL, PTL, and TPE. She has filed more than 20 invention patent applications, with 8 patents granted, including one U.S. patent.  

He has received over 30 million RMB in funding from more than 20 national natural science foundation projects, and corporate sponsors including Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Alibaba Pingtouge Microelectronics. Her awards include a Second Prize for National Teaching Achievement, a Special Prize for Higher Education Teaching Achievement of Shaanxi Province, a Second Prize for Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements in Shaanxi Higher Education, the Huawei “Spark Award,” the IEEE MTT-S IWS Best Student Paper Award, and the 2023 IEEE ICTA Best Paper Award.

Professor Zhengchun Yang

Tianjin University of Technology, China

Bio: Dr. Yang Zhengchun, Senior Engineer, graduated from the National University of Singapore, and is currently a professor at Tianjin University of Technology. He serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering. He has been selected for the Tianjin High-level Talent Introduction Program (Youth Project), the Tianjin Specially Appointed Professor Youth Project, the Tianjin Universities “Young and Middle-aged Backbone Innovative Talent Training Program,” the Tianjin Innovation Talent Promotion Program for Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent, and the 2018 China-Korea Young Scientists Exchange Program by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is also the leader of the Advanced Materials and Printed Electronics team.He has conducted research at the National University of Singapore and Seoul National University, participating in the development of carbon-based semiconductor materials and microelectronic memory devices, thereby accumulating extensive R&D experience in semiconductor materials, devices, and system integration. He has long been dedicated to advanced semiconductor materials and device technologies, with research focusing on carbon-based semiconductor material processes and devices, new energy devices and systems, advanced sensors, and high-end equipment. He has led and participated in multiple major funded projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Tianjin Major Projects, Key Projects of the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, and the High-level Innovative and Entrepreneurial Team of the Tianjin Talent Development Special Support Program. He has published over 100 SCI papers in internationally authoritative journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Applied Energy, and Journal of Power Sources. His papers have been cited more than 2,700 times in total, with an H-index of 24.

Professor Xue Xiao

Tianjin University, China

Bio: Professor Xiao Xue’s main research areas include service computing, computational experiments, AI agents, and collective intelligence. Since the beginning of his career, he has been awarded the 8th Yang Jiachi Science and Technology Award, the 2023 IFAC Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Computing, the 2023 CCF Outstanding Achievement Award in Service Computing, the Provincial Outstanding Youth Award for Scientific and Technological Innovation, the Provincial Talent of Scientific and Technological Innovation in Higher Education, the Provincial Young Backbone Teacher, and the Provincial Academic Leader, among other honors.He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Healthy Habitat and Intelligent Technology in Tianjin, the Deputy Director of the Computational Social Science and Social Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, an editorial board member of the International Journal of Crowd Science, and a young editorial board member of Complex System Modeling and Simulation.

In recent years, he has led or participated in over 30 research projects, including National Key R&D Programs, Defense Innovation Special Zone projects, key and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, and major provincial projects. As first or corresponding author, he has published more than 60 papers in top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions. He received the Best Paper Award at ICWS 2020 (the top conference in service computing), and his paper was listed among the Top 10 Highly Cited Papers in Computer Research and Development in 2021. He authored the monograph Computational Experimental Methods for Complex Systems, which is the first domestic book systematically organizing computational experimental methods. He was also honored with the 2023 IFAC TC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Computing and CPSS. Additionally, he has won two Provincial Natural Science Second Prizes (both ranked first), one Provincial Decision-making Achievement Second Prize (ranked first), and one Provincial Excellent Academic Work First Prize (sole author).