Prof. Badong Chen
Xi 'an Jiaotong University, China
Badong Chen received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He is currently a professor with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. His research interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence, brain computer interfaces and robotics. He has authored or coauthored over 300 articles in various journals and conference proceedings (with 18000+ citations in Google Scholar), and has won the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. Dr. Chen has served as a Member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and serves (or has served) as an Associate Editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He has served as a PC or SPC Member for prestigious conferences including UAI, IJCAI and AAAI, and served as a General Co-Chair of 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.
Prof. Guangtao Zhai
IEEE Fellow
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Guangtao Zhai received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Shandong University, Shandong, China, in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2009, where he is currently a Research Professor with the Institute of Image Communication and Information Processing. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Visiting Student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, where he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2010 to 2012. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow with the Institute of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received the Award of National Excellent Ph.D. Thesis from the Ministry of Education of China in 2012. His research interests include multimedia signal processing and perceptual signal processing.
