Speakers

Prof Erik Cambria

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Biography: Erik Cambria is the Founder of SenticNet, a Singapore-based company offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, where he also holds the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining NTU, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) and HP Labs India (Bangalore) and earned his PhD through a joint programme between the University of Stirling and MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on neurosymbolic AI for explainable natural language processing in domains like sentiment analysis, dialogue systems, and financial forecasting. He is recipient of several awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Career Award, was listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of many top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in various international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and senior program committee member.

Assoc. Prof. Zongwei Luo

Beijing Normal University Zhuhai, China

Biography: Zongwei Luo, Independent Director，Chief Expert of high-tech companies,  Secretary of GD AI Institute of Higher Education. Dr. Luo is also affliated with Beijing Normal University Zhuhai and UIC. Dr. Luo has rich experience in R&D management in universities and industries in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data analysis, and financing/investment. He has been consecutively selected in Stanford Worldwide Top Scientists List of Lifelong Impact (2023) and Yearly Impact (2021, 2022, 2023).

Biography: Hongbing CHENG is currently a Professor in college of computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University; was high-level talent of Six Talent Peaks in Jiangsu Province. At the same time, he is the Distinguished Professor of Huawei Network Security Foreign Training .Prof. CHENG have been to University of Manchester, University of Stavanger and Deakin University as Visiting scholar, visiting professor. He is the Team leader of Information and Privacy Protection Research, and has published numerous research papers in high-quality international journals and conferences. Prof. Cheng served as invited editor of several international journals in some international conferences; and has been invited to give keynote speeches and chair committees, reviewed papers for many international journals and conferences.  His  research interests include blockchain, cryptography, privacy preserving and information security, computer communications and cloud computing security.

Speech Title: Blockchain and Data security