Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Linlin Shen

Shenzhen University, China

Bio: Professor Shen Linyin holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham with the support of the UK Government's Overseas Research Scholarship. During her PhD studies, she received the ‘National Outstanding Self-funded Overseas Student’ award. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Shenzhen ‘Pengcheng Scholars’ Programme, an Honorary Professor at the School of Computing at the University of Nottingham, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computing at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Macau; She is the Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education China-UK Joint Laboratory for Visual Information Processing, Director of the Computer Vision Research Institute at Shenzhen University, Director of the Centre for Intelligent Analysis and Diagnosis of Medical Images at Shenzhen University, and Computer Vision Algorithm Advisor at Huawei Company. Her research focuses on deep learning theory and its applications in facial recognition/analysis and medical image analysis. As the principal investigator, she has consecutively led four major research projects and general projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has published over 200 academic papers. 

Prof. Qifeng Chen

Experience: Dr. Qifeng CHEN is an assistant professor in CSE and ECE at HKUST. He received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2017, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and maths from HKUST in 2012. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, optimization, and computer graphics. Four of his papers were selected for full oral presentations in ICCV'15, CVPR'16, ICCV'17, and CVPR'18 (about 3% acceptance rate). In 2011, he won the 2nd place worldwide at the ACM-ICPC World Finals. He earned a gold medal at IOI 2007.