Prof. Yuemin Zhu

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France

Prof. Yuemin ZHU is Research Director of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) of France at INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) Lyon. He carried out a broad spectrum of research activities, from the development of basic signal and image processing methods to their application to industrial nondestructive inspection and medical imaging. He published over 360 papers on image processing and medical imaging, including 168 papers in peered international journals. He was the recipient of French “Knight of the Order of Academic Palms“ award in 2016. He served on editorial boards of several international journals such as Sensors, IEEE Access, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B, and Journal of Medical Engineering.

Prof. Changgen Peng

Guizhou University, China

Dr. Peng Changgen is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Guizhou University, serving as the academic leader in his discipline. He is an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, a core expert of Guizhou Province, and a provincial-level expert. He is also a standing committee member of the 9th Guizhou Provincial Association for Science and Technology. His main research areas include big data security and privacy protection, cryptography, and information security. Currently, he holds several prestigious positions, including council member of the China Cryptography Society, chairman of the Guiyang Branch of the China Computer Federation, president of the Guizhou Computer Society, and president of the Guizhou Commercial Cryptography Industry Association. He also serves as a legislative expert for the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress.

Professor Peng is the associate editor of the 9th edition of the "Journal of Communications" and has served or is serving as an editorial board member for several journals, including "Journal of Network and Information Security", "Information Network Security", "Cyberspace Security", "Information Security Research",and "Secure Communication and Information Security". He has led six projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including one key project and one general project), along with several other projects. His accolades include a second place award and a third place award for the Scientific and Technological Progress of Guizhou Province, two Second Prizes for Natural Science of Guizhou Province, one Second Prize for Higher Education Teaching Achievement of Guizhou Province, and one China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Innovation Award. He has also been honored with the National Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award and the title of Guizhou Province's First Outstanding Master's Supervisor.