Prof. Jianping Gou, Ph.D. in Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southwest University, China. His research primarily focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and pattern recognition, with current interests in large model technologies, smart agriculture, and smart healthcare. He has authored or co-authored over 170 scientific papers in prestigious domestic and international journals and conferences, including IJCV, ACM/IEEE Transactions, etc., among which over 120 papers are indexed by SCI. One of his papers has received over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar and has been recognized as an ESI Highly Cited Paper for seven consecutive years. Professor Gou has led a total of 13 research projects, including two General Programs funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and holds nearly 20 authorized national invention patents. He has received the First Prize and Third Prize of the Excellent Paper Award at the Sichuan-Chongqing Science and Technology Academic Conference, the Third Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award, and the Third Prize of the Chinese Hospital Association Science and Technology Innovation Award. He has been selected for several talent programs: the Outstanding Young University Teacher Cultivation Candidate of the "Qinglan Project" for Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, the International Postdoctoral Exchange Program of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Chongqing Overseas Returnees' Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program. Professor Gou currently serves on the editorial board of the international SCI-indexed journal Mathematics, as a Youth Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science), as a Section Editor for the international EI and ESCI-indexed journal Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and as an Associate Editor for Cognitive Robotics. He is a committee member of the Multimedia Technical Committee (CSIG) and the Computer Vision Technical Committee (CAAI), and is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Senior Member of the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), and a Senior Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Lei Yang, a Principal Investigator and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhengzhou University, is a Senior Member of both the CSIG and the IEEE. He has been honored as a Henan University Science and Technology Innovation Talent, a Young Scientist of the Henan Provincial Science and Technology R&D Joint Fund, and an Outstanding Supervisor for Henan Provincial Excellent Master's Theses. From 2024 to 2025, he was consecutively named to the World's Top 2% Scientists "Annual Scientific Influence" list. His long-term research focuses on robotic visual perception, intelligent inspection, and multi-modal learning. As the first or corresponding author, he has published over 50 papers in high-impact SCI-indexed journals. His work includes two ESI Highly Cited Papers, and he has received three First Prizes for Outstanding Scientific Papers from the Education Department of Henan Province. He has led 6 national, provincial, and ministerial projects, including General and Youth Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Prof. Yang serves as a committee member of the CSIG Visual Inspection Technical Committee, the CCF Intelligent Robot Technical Committee, and the CAA Youth Working Committee.