Prof. QIN, Jing (Harry), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Prof. QIN, Jing (Harry) is a professor and the director of The Centre for Smart Health, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also serves as the director of CAS-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Multimodal Medical Molecular Imaging, and the director of the Program of Master of Science in Health Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in The National University of Singapore and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Qin has won the 2024 CES (Consumer Technology Associate) 2024 Innovation Awards, The Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) to Chinese Ministry of Education (Second Prize) in 2022, the 2019 MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award, the 2nd Place in the 2021 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Prize Paper Award, the 2017 Medical Image Analysis-MICCAI’17 Best Paper Award, the Best Paper Award in Medical Image Computing in International Conference on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR) 2016, the Best Application Paper in 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI) 2015, the 2009 Hong Kong Medical and Health Device Industries Association Student Research Award, and the 2008 CUHK Global Scholarship Program for Research Excellence,  as well as many other academic and industrial awards. Prof. Qin's research interests are innovatively harnessing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) techniques in various medicine and healthcare applications. Prof. Qin has secured around 30 competitive research projects as PC/PI/Co-PI, including Hong Kong RGC TRS, STG, CRF, GRF, Hong Kong ITF ITSP, MHKJFS, TCFS, RTH, NSFC, MOST 973, and so on. Prof. Qin has published more than 300 papers in major journals and conferences in his research field, with more than 33000 Google Scholar Citations and an H-index of 85.

Prof. Huisi Wu, Shenzhen University, China

Wu Huisi, Professor/Doctoral Supervisor, IEEE Senior Member, ACM/CCF Member, Shenzhen “Peacock Plan” Overseas High-Level Talent (Category B). Long-term research focus includes artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, machine learning, medical imaging and intelligent diagnosis modeling, computer graphics, and image processing. To date, publications appear in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Medical Engineering & Physics, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, MICCAI, and other top-tier international journals and conferences. He serves as a reviewer for multiple top-tier international journals including TMI, MedIA, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, MICCAI, and SIGGRAPH, and was a Program Committee Member for AAAI 2022-23 and IJCAI 2022, both CCF-A Class artificial intelligence conferences. His awards include the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education in 2009 (ranked 7th) and the Second Prize of the Shenzhen Natural Science Award in 2017 (4th author). He was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2024 and received the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2013). He has led over 20 research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Shenzhen Basic Research Program, and Tencent's Rhino Bird Technology Innovation Project.