Professor Ong Yew-Soon, Fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Engineering, Singapore, is President’s Chair Professor of Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist at A*STAR. He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton in 2003. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optimization. A former Chair of NTU’s School of Computer Science and Engineering, he has led major AI conferences, including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Professor Ong is the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and serves on the editorial boards of several leading IEEE journals. He has received five IEEE Outstanding Paper Awards and was recognized by Thomson Reuters in 2016 as a Highly Cited Researcher and one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. He currently chairs the IEEE CIS Fellow Evaluation Committee.

_{Professor Qiu Cheng-Wei, Provost’s Chair Professor and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, is internationally recognized for his research in structured light, metasurfaces, and thermal photonics. He is Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE, The Electromagnetics Academy (US), Chinese Optical Society (Foreign Fellow), and ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. Prof. Qiu has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers, including as corresponding author in Science (4), Nature (9), Physical Review Letters (30+), PNAS (10), Nature Photonics (8), Nature Materials (6), Nature Nanotechnology (5), Nature Electronics (4), Nature Physics (2), Nature Communications (30+), Science Advances (11), Nature Reviews Physics (1), Nature Reviews Materials (2), Chemical Reviews (4), etc. His honors include the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship (2005), IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award (2006), URSI Young Scientist Award (2008), MIT TR35@Singapore (2012), Singapore Young Scientist Award (2013), SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2018), NUS Engineering Researcher Award (2021), World Scientific Medal (2021), IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023), and President’s Science Award (2023), the highest science accolade in Singapore.}

Dr. Sun Sumei is the Executive Director of Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore. A*STAR I2R focuses on multi-disciplinary digital technologies research including artificial intelligence (AI), communications and connectivity, and cyber security. Sumei’s current research interests include next-generation wireless communications, sensing-communications-computing-control integrative design, applied AI, and industrial internet of things.  She’s a Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng). She’s recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award 2024, IEEE ComSoc Inaugural Asia Pacific Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award (2024), 2023 IEEE VTS Women’s Distinguished Career Award, and Singapore National Day 2022 Public Administration Medal (Bronze). She holds a joint appointment with the Singapore Institute of Technology, and an adjunct appointment with the National University of Singapore, both as a full professor.

Jason Xu Zhichuan is the President’s Chair Professor and Associate Chair (Faculty)in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He serves as the director of Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence, and the director of the Centre of Advanced Catalysis Science and Technology in NTU. He received his PhD degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry and B.S. degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou University, China. His PhD training was received at Lanzhou University, Institute of Physics, CAS, and Brown University. He worked at the SUNY Binghamton as a Research Associate and then in MIT as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He has received several awards such as 2024 TÜBA Academy Prize and the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry by International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2019. Dr. Xu is a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science since 2018.

_{Professor Chen Jianfeng is an expert in the field of chemical engineering. As one of the pioneers of high-gravity technology in the world, he has taken the lead in proposing the engineering concept of high-gravity reactors and achieved industrialization, making important contributions to making China a leading country in the international high-gravity chemical industry. He has published over 400 academic papers in mainstream international chemical journals, as well as two monographs. He has been recognized as ESI highly cited Chinese researchers for many years, obtaining over 220 Chinese invention patent authorizations and over 20 foreign invention patent authorizations. He received 2 second prizes for national technological invention and 1 second prize for national scientific and technological progress as the first person to complete the project.}

_{Ding Wenhua is member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, he is the dean of college of Electronics & Information Engineering of Shenzhen University. His research interests include radio and television technology, multimedia technology and computer network engineering. He won first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was the first Chinese expert to win ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award in 2007, he also won Ho Leung Ho Lee Technology Award Science and Technology Innovation Award, Outstanding Contributions to National Middle-aged and Young Experts and Wang Xuan Science and Technology Outstanding Talent Award, etc.}

_{GAO Wen is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He is the founding director of Pengcheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China). He is also a Boya Chair Professor and the director at the Faculty of Information and Engineering Sciences, Peking University. GAO Wen has engaged in the research of artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and virtual reality. He published six books and over 300 papers in international journals in the above areas.}

_{Professor Ma Jun is internationally recognized for his contributions in combatting water pollution and advancing sustainable urban water treatment systems. As an esteemed Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and IWA Fellow, he has pioneered cost-effective and high-efficiency water treatment technologies. His innovations have addressed several water crises and safeguarded public health for millions worldwide. He received the prestigious Outstanding Achievements Award in Environmental Science & Technology (2024) and Honor Award for Scientific Excellence (2017) by the American Chemical Society, and received Sustainable Water Award (2016) by the Royal Society of Chemistry.}

_{Professor Wu Hanming currently serves as Dean of the College of Integrated Circuits at Zhejiang University. Having worked extensively in China's integrated circuit chip industry, he has made outstanding contributions to the field. He established China's first 12-inch public pilot platform featuring integrated education and industry processes. He has been honored as one of China's "Top 10 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers" and "Outstanding Professional and Technical Personnel," and has received national-level awards four times.}

_{Prof. WU Zhiqiang is a Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (Hon. FAIA). He is the Chief Scientist of the China Intelligent Urban Planning Co-creation Center for Yangtze River Delta Agglomeration (CIUC), Councilor of Shanghai Government, Member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Development Experts’ Committee, Vice President of the Urban Planning Society of China and China Association of Building Energy Efficiency, and Chief Editor of the journals Urban Planning Forum and Frontier of Urban & Rural Planning (FRUP).}