Keynote Speaker 2024

Keynote Speaker Ⅰ

Prof. Yue Zhang

Westlake University, China

Brief Introduction: Yue Zhang is a tenured Professor at Westlake University. His research interests include NLP and its underlying machine learning algorithms. His major contributions to the field include psycholinguistically motivated machine learning algorithm, fundamental computational linguistics tasks, and OOD generalization for NLP. He authored the Cambridge University Press book "Natural Language Processing -- a Machine Learning Perspective''. He is the PC co-chair for CCL 2020 and EMNLP 2022, and action editor for Transactions for ACL. He also served as associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions of Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Languages (TALLIP), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), and Computer, Speech and Language (CSL). He won the best paper awards of IALP 2017 and COLING 2018, best paper honorable mention of SemEval 2020, and best paper nomination for ACL 2018 and ACL 2023.

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Keynote Speaker Ⅱ

Prof. Zhen Wang

Fellow of IEEE, IOP, AAIA

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Brief Introduction: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Secretary of the Party Branch of the School of Cyberspace Security of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Executive Vice President of the National Academy of Secrecy, Elected Member of Academia Europaea/The Academy of Europe (AE), European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), IEEE/IOP/AAIA Fellow, globally highly cited scientist, national leading talent, and the chief scientist of a national science and technology innovation team. He mainly engaged in basic and applied research on artificial intelligence, cyberspace intelligent confrontation, and intelligent unmanned systems. The developed systems are used in multiple models and major tasks. He has published a series of contributions in journals including Nature Communications, PNAS, PRL, Science Advances, IEEE Transactions, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, etc., and has been cited more than 20,000 times by WoS.

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