Xiaochun Cao is the Dean of the School of Cyber Science and Technology at Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests span artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on computer vision and cyber content analysis. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Computer Science from Beihang University (BUAA), China, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, USA, where his dissertation was nominated for the university-level Outstanding Dissertation Award. After graduation, he worked as a Research Scientist at ObjectVideo Inc. for three years before serving as a Professor at the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Cao has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal and conference papers. He is a two-time recipient of the Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2004, 2010). He has also received the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2014) and the Outstanding Young Scientists Fund (2020) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, and Acta Electronica Sinica, and was previously an Associate Editor of IEEE TCSVT. Dr. Cao has an outstanding record of mentoring. Several of his Ph.D. students have received prestigious honors, including the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of NSFC, the National High-level Talent Program, and the CCF/CIE/CAS Doctoral Dissertation Awards. 

Zhen Lei is an IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, and a Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) as well as the School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). His research interests include biometrics, intelligent video analysis, and foundational theories of artificial intelligence. He has led and participated in major national projects, including the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Lei has published over 200 papers in top journals and conferences, including 9 IEEE TPAMI papers and more than 60 CCF-A conference papers. He has received four best paper/best student paper awards at flagship conferences and won first prizes in seven international vision competitions. He holds over 30 invention patents, and has contributed to the development of two national standards and seven industry standards. His work has been cited over 32,000 times, with an H-index of 85. He was recognized as an Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher in China (2020–2023) and ranks among the top 2% of scientists globally. His honors include the 2019 IAPR Young Biometrics Researcher Award, Second Prize of the 2019 National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of the 2021 CIE Technology Invention Award, and Second Prize of the 2022 CSIG Natural Science Award. He has also received the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Barcelona Global Smart City Project Nomination Award, and the Huawei Outstanding Technical Collaboration Achievement Award (2020).

Yiyu is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, working with Prof. Xudong Jiang. He received his Ph.D. from NTU in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Alex C. Kot, Prof. Yap-Peng Tan, and Prof. Shijian Lu. Prior to that, he earned an M.S. in Machine Learning & Data Science from the University of California, San Diego (2020) and a B.E. in Automation from Tsinghua University (2019). His research focuses on trustworthy machine learning and AI security, aiming to enhance the security and privacy of AI methods throughout their full life cycle. His work covers adversarial attacks, backdoor attacks, and data poisoning (unlearnable examples) along with their mitigation strategies. Recently, his interests have expanded to data privacy protection (e.g., preventing unauthorized commercial use of data and mitigating model inversion risks) and the security of foundation models, including large language models and multimodal systems.