Wei Cui (Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Yixue Education).
Talk title: AI and Big-Data Driven Personalized Learning
As an expert in Adaptive Learining, Dr. Cui has many years of practical experience in the adaptive education industry with numerous of scientific research achievement relevant to the field of artificial intelligence and big data.
Dr. Cui has received a bachelor's degree in software engineering from Wuhan University, a master of communication engineering,doctor and post-doctor in Artificial Intelligence of the National University of Ireland and he has been awarded the SFI scholarship for four consecutive years.He founded the first Chinese online shopping platform in Ireland, covering 80% of Chinese in Ireland.
Dr. Cui has published 16 international academic papers including one in Soft Computing, which is the core journal of artificial intelligence, one in Quantitative Finance, which is the top periodical all over the world, and one in IEEE-CiFEr as the best conference paper. Dr. Cui has delivered 19 International academic speeches and gained scholarship for national outstanding Student Abroad.
Dr. Cui had worked in top European adaptive education enterprise for many years, responsible for researching on adaptive learning algorithms and systems. His achievements in adaptive learning system had been popularised among European secondary and higher education market.
Kai Duan (AICHAIN founder and CEO)
Talk title: 可信数据分享和有价值计算
Mr. Duan is the former CTO of Beijing Bitmain Technololy Co., Ltd. the world's largest mining operations provider.
Responsible for developing and management of miner software including cross platform mining algorithm for Bitcoin, ETH and other crypto currencies; Ecommerce platform based on digital currency payment; Lead research on the AI application based on the Special AI chip. Master in Electronic Engineering of Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology.
Weilin Huang (Malong Technologies)
Talk title: Computer Vision in RetailAI: 从物体识别到商品识别
Dr. Weilin Huang is a world-class research scientist in computer vision and deep learning. He was a postdoctoral scholar in the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) of the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Andrew Zisserman. Published the world’s top performance reported on scene recognition benchmarks: MIT Place205, MIT Indoor67, and SUN397, and top performance on text benchmarks, including ICDAR 2011, 2013, 2015. ImageNet 2015 Challenge 2nd place, Scene Classification. WebVision 2017 Challenge 1st place, General Classification. He has served as a PC member or reviewer for the premier computer vision journals and conferences, such as TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV and ECCV. Assistant Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Jian Liang (The Tech SVP of HiScene)
Talk title: AR in Intelligent Manufacturing: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Liang is currently the Tech SVP of HiScene, which is a company based in Shanghai focusing on Augmented Reality (AR) products and services. Dr. Liang got his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. from University of Maryland. He was among the first group of researchers to study OCR from a mobile device point-of-view. He and two colleagues built Amazon the first automated digital book content ingestion pipeline. Since 2012, Dr. Liang has actively participated in the trend of industry automation and upgrading in China, working as executive level IT directors with Suning Group, Zhongce Group and CTO of Stellar Group, respectively. Now at HiScene, his goal is to build a foundation of AR products and services to support industrial scenarios.
Kang Li (Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.)
Talk title: Beyond Adversarial Learning — How Hackers Counter AI Technologies
Gansha Wu, cofounder and CEO of Uisee Technology Inc., is devoted to transforming the world's transportation with autonomous driving products and solutions. Before this journey, he was Managing Director of Intel Labs China, Intel Principal Engineer. He led Intel's Technology Strategic Long Range Planning on Big Data, and focused the China Labs on three directions, 5G communications, smart computing and robotics. During his years at Intel, he has published more than 10 research papers, held 25 is-sued US patents (including 10+ international patents) and 14 pending ones
Liang Lin (Executive R&D Director of SenseTime Group Limited, Professor of sun yat-sen university)
Talk title: Deep Learning 2.0: The Future of AI Powering
Liang Lin is the Executive R&D Director of SenseTime Group Limited and a full Profes-sor of Sun Yat-sen University. He is the Excellent Young Scientist of the National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2003 and 2008, respectively, and was a joint Ph.D. student with the Department of Statistics, University of Califor-nia, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2008 to 2010, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCLA. From 2014 to 2015, as a senior visiting scholar he was with The Hong Kong Polytech-nic University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He currently leads the SenseTime R&D teams to develop cutting-edges and deliverable solutions on comput-er vision, data analysis and mining, and intelligent robotic systems. He has author-ized and co-authorized on more than 100 papers in top-tier academic journals and conferences (e.g., 10 papers in TPAMI/IJCV and 30+ papers in CVPR/ICCV/NIPS/IJCAI). He has been serving as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Human-Machine Systems, The Visual Computer and Neurocomputing. He served as Area/Session Chairs for numerous conferences such as ICME, ACCV, ICMR. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Runners-Up Award in ACM NPAR 2010, Google Faculty Award in 2012, and Best Student Paper Award in IEEE ICME 2014.
Phoenix Peng (Keruyun founder and CEO)
Talk title: 餐饮零售业的人工智能化征程
Lei Peng has graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree in mechanical and electrical engineering, and received a master's degree in software engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since in the University, Lei Peng has founded four internet companies specializing in different areas, including: Social Contact, Big Data, Group Buying and SaaS System. With “Life is Great” as his entrepreneurship values, Lei Peng established Keruyun in 2012, which is an internet company dedicated to providing new generations of intelligent SaaS system to service operators engaging in catering, retailing and other service businesses.
Gansha Wu (Cofounder and CEO of Uisee Technology Inc.)
Talk title: Towards Stronger AI for Autonomous Driving
Gansha Wu, cofounder and CEO of Uisee Technology Inc., is devoted to transforming the world's transportation with autonomous driving products and solutions. Before this journey, he was Managing Director of Intel Labs China, Intel Principal Engineer. He led Intel's Technology Strategic Long Range Planning on Big Data, and focused the China Labs on three directions, 5G communications, smart computing and robotics. During his years at Intel, he has published more than 10 research papers, held 25 issued US patents (including 10+ international patents) and 14 pending ones.
Eason Wang (Chief AI Officer at Shanghai Noah Yijie Financial Tech Co.,Ltd.)
Talk title: Optimizing investment strategy via machine learning
Dr. Eason Wang is in charge of building large-scale machine learning sys-tems/infrastructure and design practical machine learning algorithms to solve the real prob-lems in financial markets, where uncertainty is ubiquitous. His research interests are ma-chine learning/reinforcement learning/deep learning. He has several publications in the top academic conferences like ICML, CVPR, IJCAI, AAAI.
Jing Xiao (Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.)
Talk title: AI+Fintech （人工智能赋能金融科技）
Dr. Jing Xiao, professorate senior engineer, an expert in China’s 1000 Talents Plan and Chief Scientist at Ping An Technology, Dean of Ping An Technology Research Institute. He obtained his Ph.D degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University(CMU), USA. His current research interests include Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.
Jason Yang (Plex-VR)
Talk title: Creating a Turing to Pass the Turing Test
Jason Yang is Co-Founder and CTO of Plex-VR. He is affiliated with the Visual Intelligence Center at ShanghaiTech University. Dr. Yang received his BS and PhD at MIT. Previously he was at AMD in charge of graphics research and performance engineering for GPUs and was an early pioneer in GPGPU.
Hubery Yuan (Director of Huobi Academy of Blockchain Application.)
Talk title: How to transform production relations with blockchain
Hubery Yuan, graduated from automation department of Tsinghua University，formerly served as assistant director of Industrial Security Research Institution, general manager of TMT Research Center, chief analyst of computer & Internet industry, and was awarded the New Forfune Best Analyst in 5 consecutive years from 2013 to 2017. In March 2018, Yuan joined Huobi China and was appointed as the director of Huobi Academy of Blockchain Application.
Kun Zhou (Director of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University)
Talk title: Computer Graphics 2.0: towards end-user-generated contents
Kun Zhou is a Cheung Kong Professor and the Director of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University. Earlier, he was a Lead Researcher of the Internet Graphics Group at Microsoft Research Asia. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Zhejiang University in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He works in the broad areas of computer graphics, computer vision and virtual reality. He is/was an associate editor of IEEE TVCG and ACM TOG, and serves on the editorial advisory board of IEEE Spectrum. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Wangmeng Zuo (Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology)
Talk title: Improved auto-encoders and their applications in low level vision
Wangmeng Zuo is a Professor from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. His interest includes image enhancement and restoration, image editing, image classification, object detection and visual tracking. He has published more than 70 papers on top-tier journals and conferences, including CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, IJCV, IEEE T-PAMI、and other IEEE Transactions.
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Danny Deng (Chairman of Tai Cloud)
Graduated from Tsinghua University in 2003, he has founded several companies with groundbreaking achievements in the fields of P2P, video, cloud computing and blockchain. He is the Chairman of Tai Cloud and the Chairman of the Blockchain Application Research Center of China. He is also one of the "Fintech Leading People by 20 People". In the Davos Forum in Switzerland, as the head of the China’s Blockchain Delegation, he participated in the launching and establishment of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).
Shengliang Lv (CTO of PARATERA)
Graduated from Nanjing University in 1999, over 18 years working experience in IT industry, ever worked for Sugon, Lenovo and HP, now is the CTO of Paratera Company.
Tao Wu (Vice President of Technical Support System of Kingnet)
Vice President of Technical Support System of Kingnet. CTO of Blockchain Business Division.Lead the technical team with 100+ employees. Graduated from Beijing Normal University and received the Master of Science degree. Previously joined the Mobile Computing Department of NEC Laboratories China, the Core System Department of Alibaba, Newegg(Los Angeles). Focus on the technology and business practices, and have rich experience in big data systems, large-scale websites construction, distributed systems, blockchain and technical management in the large enterprises. Obtained many patents for inventions in the United States, Japan and China, and published papers in the International Academic Conference. Board member of the technical organization TGO Shanghai.
Di Xie (Senior Algorithm Expert of Hikvision)
Di Xie received his BS degree in Software Engineer and PhD degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He currently is a principle re-search manager at Hikvision Research Institute and is responsible for cutting-edge tech-nology R&D. His research interests include computer vision, incremental learning and deep neural network optimization. His team has won several 1st place awards in famous CV benchmarks and competitions, e.g. KITTI, MOT Challenge, PASCAL VOC, LSVRC2016 and Caltech. He has published many academic papers, parts of which are published in TCSVT, CVPR, IJCAI, ECCV, ICIP, etc. Quite an amount of his proposed algo-rithms or methodologies has been adopted and applied in products and platforms of Hik-vision.
Alysa Xu (Research Director of TianFeng Securities Blockchain Research Center)
Commissioner of Blockchain Expert Committee, China Institute of Electronics; Research Director of TianFeng Securities Blockchain Research Center. Experienced in blockchain industry, accumulated rich relevant up- and downstream international industry resources. Key author of “Research on Key Application and Supervision of Blockchain in China's Securities Market (China Securities Regulatory Commission Excellent Project)”, first author of blockchain feature article on Securities Times.
2016 – Present: Focusing on blockchain and digital assets research; conducted investigations and surveys on multiple blockchain startups, initiated communications with key teams of premium blockchain projects on their technology development and business models; follow constantly on the development of digital assets market, voice in-depth opinions on the issuance and transaction of digital assets.
2013 – 2016: General Manager Assistant of Private Investment Bank Department, ZhongRong Trust Corporation. In charged of a 2.3 billion RMB private placement project, the 200 million privatization project of ShanDa Games, and a 150 million NEEQ investment fund.
2010 – 2013: IPO Group Member of China Fortune Land Development Co., Ltd (CFLD), participated in the tutorship of CFLD (Stock Code: 600340).
Hana Zhang (DAEX)
Ms. Hana Zhang is an investor of several exchange platforms, initial member of IDEL (International Digital Economic League). Started to be an entrepreneur in blockchain and digital assets since 2014. Opinion leader in blockchain applications and technology development in digital assets trading, “Best Female CIO” Award in 2016. Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Use to work in A.T.Kearney, Dun&Bradstreet and Euromonitor International as strategic consultant. She’ s been engaged in consulting
work for fortune 500 enterprises in the field of finance, payment and engineering.
Xinbo Zhang (co-founder and vice president of the technology department)
Mr. Xinbo Zhang, co-founder and vice president of the technology department.He majored in computer science and technology and graduated from Zhengzhou University in Henan Province. He joined Alibaba in 2009, becoming an early member of the international trade risk control and anti-fraud team. From 2009 to 2011, he was involved in the whole process of the construction of risk control and anti-fraud system in international stations. For his prominent performance, he was promoted to be expert in technology. In the late stage, he was responsible for the construction of the whole B2B risk control and anti-fraud system and the unified risk control platform building for the group. Thus, he has an in-depth study on risk control and anti-fraud. He ever participated in the founding of a short-message search company and gained four inventions as well as new-type practical patent. And he enjoys experience of over one decade in software and internet development. He joined Tongdun in 2013 and serves as the co-founder.
