Prof. Mingzhi Liao

Northwest A&F University

Prof. Mingqi Liao is the vice dean of the College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, and the headof the subiect of bioinformatics. National Youth Talent Plan entrants, Shaanxi Province Outstanding YouthFund approved. Editor-in-chief Science Press's'14th Five-Year' higher education undergraduate planningtextbook Bioinformatics, participated in many textbooks. The research direction focuses on animalmulti-group student big data mining. It mainly uses advanced information technologies such as artificialintelligence to reveal biological phenomena, key biomarkers, molecular regulation mechanisms andsystem laws, and actively serves the industrial needs of Al-enabled synthetic biology, bio-intelligence andother industries. He chaired four National Natural Science Foundations and three Shaanxi ProvincialNatural Science Foundations. In recent years, he has published more than 70 research papers in PNAS,Advanced Science, Molecular Plant, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Autophagy, Cell Death & Disease,Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, The FASEB Journal, Zoological Research.

Prof. Yulin Wang

Wuhan University

Yulin Wang is a full professor in the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China. His research interests include image and video processing, digital rights management, information security, intelligent system, e-commerce, IoT, code clone and so on.

He got his PhD degree from University of London, UK. He got his master and bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology（HUST）and Xi-Dian University respectively, both in China.

Before joining the Wuhan University, he has worked in Hi-tech IT industry, including HUAWEI© and national research institute, for more than ten years. He has involved more than 15 national and international research projects. In recently 10 years, Prof. Wang has published 1 book, and 50+ journal and conference papers, including in IEEE TIP. He holds 10 authorized patents.

Prof. Wang served as EiC of 2 international journals and reviewer of top IEEE and ACM journals. He also served as reviewer of Innovative talents projects and national  research funds, including National High Technology Research and Development Program of China. Prof. Wang was the external PhD advisor of Dublin City University, Ireland during 2008-2010.

In recently 10 years, Prof. Wang served as chairman of more than 10 international conferences, and keynote speakers in more than 20 international conferences. Besides UK, he visited US, France,Italy, Portugal,Croatia, Australia, Germany, korea, Ireland,Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Hong Kong. In addition, Prof. Wang has been appointed as the deputy director of Hubei provincial science and technology commission (CAPD) since 2014.