2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Science (AI4Science 2026)

Prof. Haizhou Li

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Haizhou Li is the Dean and X. Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He is also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Dr. Li's research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and neuromorphic computing. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2015-2018), Associate Editor (2008-2012) and Senior Area Editor (2014-2016) of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Associate Editor (2012-2013) of ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Computer Speech and Language (2012-2024), Springer International Journal of Social Robotics (2008-2024), and a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2013-2015), Awards Board (2021-2023), Publications Board (2015-2018), and Conference Board (2023-2024) of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served as the President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA, 2015-2016), the President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society (COLIPS, 2015-2024), the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2017-2018), the Vice President (Conferences) of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2024-2026). He was the General Chair of ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, IWSDS 2019, ASRU 2019, IEEE ICASSP 2022, APSIPA ASC 2025, and the Local Arrangement Chair of SIGIR 2008, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, EMNLP 2023. Dr. Li was the recipient of National Infocomm Awards 2002, Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013 and 2015, President's Technology Award 2013, and MTI Innovation Activist Gold Award 2015 in Singapore. He was named one of the two Nokia Visiting Professors in 2009 by Nokia Foundation, IEEE Fellow in 2014 for leadership in multilingual, speaker and language recognition, ISCA Fellow in 2018 for contributions to multilingual speech information processing, U Bremen Excellence Chair Professor in 2019, Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2022.

Prof. Yonghong Tian

Peking University

Yonghong Tian (S’00-M’06-SM’10-F’22) is currently a Boya Distinguished Professor, Peking University, China. He is as both the Director of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of AI for Science and Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Spiking Large Models. Currently, he also serves as the Vice Chancellor of Shenzhen Graduate School and the Executive Dean of School of AI for Science, Peking University, China, and the Deputy Director of Intelligence Supercomputing Division, PengCheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include neuromorphic computing, distributed machine learning and AI for Science. He is the author or co-author of over 400 technical articles in refereed journals and conferences such as Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Computational Science, Nature Communications, Science Advances, IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, ICML, NeuIPS, etc. Prof. Tian was a Senior Associate Editor of IEEE TCSVT (2024.1-now), IEEE TMM (2014.8-2018.8), IEEE Multimedia Mag. (2018.1-2022.8). He co-initiated IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), and served as the TPC Member of more than ten conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ACM KDD, AAAI, ACM MM and ECCV. He was the recipient of the Chinese National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2018 and 2024, two National Science and Technology Awards and five ministerial-level awards in China, the 2022 IEEE SA Standards Medallion and SA Emerging Technology Award, and the 2025 IEEE Hans Karlsson Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a senior member of CIE and CCF, a member of ACM.

Prof. Dapeng Oliver Wu

City University of Hong Kong

Dapeng Oliver Wu received Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003. Currently, he is Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Network Science, at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, communications, image processing, computer vision, signal processing, and biomedical engineering. He received University of Florida Term Professorship Award in 2017, University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award in 2009, AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2009, ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2008, NSF CAREER award in 2007, the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) Transactions Best Paper Award for Year 2001, the Best Paper Award in GLOBECOM 2011, and the Best Paper Award in QShine 2006. Hehas served as founding Editor in Chief of Transactions of Artificial Intelligence, Editor in Chief ofIEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, founding Editor in Chief of Journal ofAdvances in Multimedia, Editor-at-Large for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society,and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions onCommunications, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEESignal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012. He waselected as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2016. He is an IEEEFellow.