Chengqing Zong is a research fellow of Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and an adjunct professor at the University of CAS. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, in March 1998. From May 1998 to April 2000, he was a post-doctor research fellow of Institute of Automation, CAS, and he has been working at the institute since finishing his post-doctoral program. In 1999 and 2001, he worked in ATR of Japan, as a guest researcher. In 2004, he visited CLIPS-IMAG, France, as visiting scholar. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a Fellow of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and a Fellow of China Computer Federation (CCF). His research interests include natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and cognitive language computing etc. He has published more than 200 papers in top-tier conferences and journals. He authored and co-authored six books, among which Statistical Natural Language Processing published by Tsinghua University Press was one of the most important reference books on NLP in China. He serves ACL as Vice-President and served the annual meeting of ACL, a top-tier conference, 2015 as PC Co-Chair and ACL annual meeting 2021 as General Chair. He won many awards such as the Second Prize of the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award of China, 2015.

Prof. XIE Haoran is the person-in-charge and Professor (Substantiated) at the Division of Artificial Intelligence, serves as the Acting Associate Dean of the School of Data Science, and the Director of the LEO Dr David P. Chan Institute of Data Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management & E-Learning (The University of Hong Kong), Editor-in-Chief of Natural Language Processing Journal (Elsevier), Computers & Education: X Reality (Elsevier), and Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), the Associate Editors of International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer), Array (Elseiver), International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (InderScience), Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (till 2022), and Academic Editor of PLoS One (PLOS). He has totally published 414 research publications including 239 journal articles (63 papers as first or corresponding author), 7 edited books, 67 book chapters, 96 conference proceedings and 5 patents. Among all 239 journal articles, there are 189 SCI/SSCI indexed, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Computers & Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, Education Technology & Society, Education and Information Technologies and so on. Among all book chapters and conference proceedings, there are many papers from top-tier conferences like AAAI, ACM MM, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, CIKM, and so on. He has served as 18 guest editors in special issues of journals, editors of 7 books, organization committee chairs/members of more than 59 conferences, and reviewers of 40 international journals. Till August 2024, his totally Google Scholar citation counts is 18238, h-index is 54, and i-10 index is 179 at Google Scholar. One of his work about Least squares generative adversarial networks (LSGAN) which has received more than 5800 citations ins Google Scholar, published in ICCV 2017 and TPAMI 2019, included by computer science courses of Stanford University and National Taiwan University, and implemented by Google TensorFlow.

Xiaojun Quan is a professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) since July 2017. Before joining SYSU, he was a research scientist in the data analytics department (DAD) at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, since January 2014. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, from Sep 2012 to Dec 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2012 from City University of Hong Kong, where he was among the several recipients of the School of Graduate Studies Scholarship, which is regarded as the highest honor for research students. He was a visiting scholar at Purdue University in 2011 collaborated with Prof. Luo Si and at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2010 collaborated with Prof. Hui Xiong. He received his master degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2008.