Bio:Sanghoon Lee (Fellow, IEEE) is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He worked at Korea Telecom from 1991 to 1996 and at Lucent Technologies from 1999 to 2002. He is currently serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2024–present / 2022–present), a Member of the Senior Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2022–present), and Vice President for Publications of APSIPA (2026–present). He previously served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2010–2014), an Associate Editor and Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2014–2022), the Chair of the IEEE P3333.1 Quality Assessment Working Group (2011–2024), the President of the Korean Society for Simulation Surgery (2023–2024), and the General Chair of the 2013 IEEE IVMSP Workshop. He also served as a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2013). His research interests include deep learning, image and video quality of experience, computer vision, and computer graphics.

Bio:Mang Ye is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, and serves as Director of the Department of Intelligent Science, Principal Investigator at the Taikang Life Medical Center, and doctoral supervisor. He is a national-level young talent, a China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Supportee, and a high-level talent in Hubei Province. He earned his Ph.D. from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019 and returned to Wuhan University as a professor in late 2020. He previously served as a research scientist at the Origin Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in the United Arab Emirates and as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, USA. His main research interests include trustworthy multimodal computing, multimodal large models, federated learning, and medical artificial intelligence. He has published over 100 papers as first or corresponding author in CCF-A category journals, with more than 20,000 citations on Google Scholar. His work has received positive recognition and citations from numerous academicians both in China and abroad, including Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international SCI journals, including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (CCF-A, top-tier journal in image processing) and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF-A, top-tier journal in information security). He has been invited multiple times to serve as area chair at top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, and ECCV. He leads several major research projects, including key R&D programs funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China–Hong Kong Joint Fund, and Hubei Provincial Key R&D Programs. He collaborates with companies such as Huawei, Hisense, and Xiaomi, and led teams that won the First Prize in Scientific and Technological Progress from the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (ranked first) and the Second Prize in Natural Sciences from the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Award (ranked first).

Bio:Kostas Terzidis is a professor at the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University and the founder of the Shangxiang Lab.  Previously, he was an associate professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003-2011) and assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (1995-2003).   He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, a Masters from Ohio State University, and an engineering diploma from Aristotle University.  His areas of concentration are language, algorithmic design, and AI.  He is author of numerous academic papers and the sole author of four academic books: Permutation Design (Routledge: 2014), Algorithms for Visual Design (Wiley: 2009), Algorithmic Architecture (Architectural Press: 2006), and Expressive Form (Spon:2003).  He is the organizer of two Critical Digital Conferences at Harvard in 2008 and 2009, one Algode conference in 2011, and two conferences at Tongji’s D&I on design/art and AI in 2019 and 2021.  In 2010 he was awarded the ACADIA award for innovative research in digital design and in 2019 the high-end foreign expert.  Between 2011 and 2017 he launched and ran a startup company called Organic Parking, Inc. that dealt with parking optimization through the use of smart phones.