Zhihua Zhou, Fellow of IEEE/ACM
Nanjing University, China

Speech: A new paradigm to leverage formalized knowledge and machine learning

Zhi-Hua Zhou received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, China, in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively, all with the highest honor. He joined the Department of Computer Science & Technology of Nanjing University as an Assistant Professor in 2001, and at present he is a Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Standing Deputy Director of the National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, and Founding Director of LAMDA (the Institute of Machine Learning and Data Mining) at Nanjing University. He has wide research interests, mainly including artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, and Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IEEE, IAPR, IET/IEE, CCF, CAAI, and CSIAM.

Shui Yu, IEEE Fellow
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Speech: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Shui Yu is Professor of the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, the Deputy Chair of the UTS Research Committee, and is a researcher of cybersecurity, privacy and the networking, communication aspects of Big Data, and applied mathematics for computer science. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2018-2021). He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (2022-2024), a voting member of IEEE ComSoc Educational Services board, and an elected member of Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, respectively. He is a Fellow of IEEE

Olfa Nasraoui, ACM member
Founding director of the Knowledge Discovery & Web Mining Lab University of Louisville, USA

Speech: Spreading the Word on the Digital Economy

Dr. Olfa Nasraoui is a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Endowed Chair of E-commerce and the founding director of the Knowledge Discovery & Web Mining Lab at University of Louisville. She received her Ph.D in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has conducted research in machine learning and data science, in particular mining high dimensional, heterogeneous data streams, web mining and recommender systems, and currently focuses on research in fairness and explainability in AI and machine learning algorithms such as Deep Learning. She serves on the Editorial board of the International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing as well as the journal of Applied Intelligence. She has also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Access journal and guest editor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE CIS, IEEE WIE, ACM, and ACM SIG-KDD. She currently serves on the leadership team of the Kentucky Girls STEM collaborative network and has previously served as faculty advisor of the University of Memphis chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.