INVITED SPEAKERS
Prof. Seokwon Yeom, Daegu University, Korea
Biography: Seokwon Yeom has been a faculty member of Daegu University since 2007. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2006.
He has been a guest editor of Applied Sciences and Drones in MDPI since 2019. He has served as a board member of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems since 2016, and a member of the board of directors of the Korean Institute of Convergence Signal Processing since 2014. He has been program chair of several international conferences. He was a vice director of the AI homecare center and a head of the department of IT convergence engineering at Daegu University in 2020-2023, a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in 2014, and a director of the Gyeongbuk techno-park specialization center in 2013. He has been a keynote or invited speaker at several international conferences. His research interests are intelligent image and optical information processing, deep and machine learning, target tracking, and state estimation of drones.
Assoc. Prof. Xiaolong Hu, Zhejiang University, China
Biography: Dr. Xiaolong Hu is a
tenured associate professor at the College of Information and
Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on
micro- and nano- optoelectronic devices and quantum photonic devices,
and he has achieved a series of research results in the field of
SNSPDs: (1) He proposed waveguide-integrated SNSPDs, which has now
become the mainstream device structure for SNSPDs on integrated
quantum optical chips; (2) He revealed two mechanisms of device
timing jitter of SNSPDs and developed the device physics of SNSPDs;
(3) He proposed and developed fractal SNSPDs with high system
detection efficiency and low timing jitter for incident photons in
all states of polarization, and developed practical systems that are
fiber-coupled and plug-and-play; (4) He applied the fractal SNSPDs to
dual-comb precision ranging, full-Stokes lidar imaging, infrared
non-line-of-sight imaging, and three-dimensional single-pixel
imaging. The fractal SNSPD systems have been used in many
institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang
University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University of Technology,
and Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory. The research results have
been published in journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics, and
Nature Nanotechnology. The fractal SNSPDs have received medium
coverage from Nature Photonics (News & Views), the Optica, IEEE
Photonics Society, IEEE Spectrum, and Science and Technology Daily;
the fractal SNSPDs have won the golden medal at the 28th National
Invention Exhibition, the first-grade prize of the Invention and
Entrepreneurship Award of the China Association of Inventions, the
gold medal at the 50th Geneva International Invention Exhibition, and
a nomination for the Chip 10 Science Award in 2024. Dr. Hu is now
serving as an associate editor of Optics Express.
Assoc. Prof. Shuqiong Wu, the University of Osaka, Japan
Biography: Shuqiong Wu was born in Shanxi, China, in 1985. She received her B.E. and M.E. degrees from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Computational Intelligence and Systems Science from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2015. From 2015 to 2020, she was a research fellow at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. From 2020 to 2025, she served as an assistant professor at SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research), the University of Osaka. She is currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, the University of Osaka. Her current research topics include dualtask-based cognitive impairment detection, cognitive status monitoring, medical image reconstruction, and contactless biometric sensing. Her research interests include biomedical signal processing, image processing, three-dimensional reconstruction, pattern recognition, and machine learning.
Asst. Prof. Shuting He, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
Biography: Dr. Shuting He is an Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xiamen University and Zhejiang University in 2018 and 2023, respectively. She was a visiting researcher at the Computer Vision Lab (CVL), ETH Zürich, and after completing her Ph.D., conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a recipient of the Zhejiang University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and received a nomination for the Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Over the past five years, she has published more than 50 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, and ICML, and has served as an Area Chair for several premier international conferences, including CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICLR. Her work has received over 4,500 citations on Google Scholar, with three papers recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers, and she was named to Stanford University's list of the World's Top 2% Scientists in both 2025 and 2026. Her long-term research focuses on multimodal large language models, embodied AI, and agent learning.