Efim Zelmanov (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Professor Efim Zelmanov is a Russian-American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University in 1980 and his M.S. from Novosibirsk State University in 1977. His research interests include algebra, infinite discrete groups, and combinatorics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 for his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. His other honors include Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Congress of Mathematicians Speaker (1983, 1990, 1994), Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Foreign Members of the Chinese Academy of Science, etc.

In 2022, Efim Zelmanov joined the Southern University of Science and Technology. He served as a chair professor and the scientific director of the SUSTech International Center for Mathematics. Previously, he was the Rita L. Atkinson Chair in Mathematics at UCSD, 2002-2022, and Professor at Yale University, 1995-2002, University of Chicago, 1994-1995, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1990-1994, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1980-present.

Rodney G. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington)

Professor Rodney Graham Downey, ACM Fellow, is a New Zealand and Australian mathematician and computer scientist. Currently, he is affiliated to the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

He is known for his work in mathematical logic and computational complexity theory, and in particular for founding the field of parameterized complexity together with Michael Fellows.

Fedor V. Fomin (University of Bergen)

Fedor V. Fomin is a professor of computer science at the University of Bergen, doing research in Algorithms and Combinatorics. His Master (1992) and PhD (1997) degrees are from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University and his supervisor was Prof. Nikolay Petrov.His research interests are mainly in Algorithms and Combinatorics: Parameterized Algorithms and Kernelization, Graph Algorithms, Exact (exponential time) Algorithms, Algorithmic Foundations of Machine Learning, Approximation Algorithms, Algorithmic Fairness, Matroid Algorithms, Graph Minors, Metric Embedding, Graph Coloring, Treewidth, Pursuit-evasion and graph searching.

Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen University)

Martin Grohe, ACM Fellow, is a University Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, where he holds the Chair for Logic and Theory of Discrete Systems.

He is a German mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on parameterized complexity, mathematical logic, finite model theory, the logic of graphs, database theory, and descriptive complexity theory.

Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh)

Libkin, ACM Fellow, is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he is chair of Foundations of Data Management in the School of Informatics, and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He previously worked at the University of Toronto, and at Bell Labs.

His current research interests include Databases, Logic in computer science, finite model theory, and automata theory. He is an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of Academia Europaea. He won best paper awards at the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) in 1999, 2003, and 2005, at International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2011 and at the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Conference in 2014 and 2018.

Kui Ren (Zhejiang University)

Kui Ren, ACM Fellow, is SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and the director of the Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Research Laboratory (UbiSeC) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he joined in 2012 as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 2016.

His current research interests include Data and Computation Outsourcing Security in the context of Cloud Computing, Wireless Systems Security in the context of Internet of Things, and Crowdsourcing-based Large-scale Data Acquisition. He received IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) Technical Recognition Award in 2017, Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement, UB in 2016, SEAS Senior Researcher of the Year Award, UB in 2015, Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, IIT in 2012, US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011, the Best Paper Awards of IEEE ICDCS’17, ACM/IEEE IWQoS’17, IEEE ICNP’11, and two others.

Hengtao Shen (University of Electronic Science and Technolgy of China)

Hengtao Shen, ACM Fellow and OSA Fellow, is the Dean of School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Executive Dean of AI Research Institute at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and Dean of Sichuan AI Research Institute (Yibin). He obtained his BSc with 1st class Honours and PhD from Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore in 2000 and 2004 respectively. He then joined the University of Queensland and became a Professor in late 2011.

His research interests mainly include Multimedia Search, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Management.