Speakers

Fengbin ZHU is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from NUS, supervised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. His research interests include Large Language Models, Information Retrieval, Document Intelligence, and their applications in finance. He has published several papers in top-tier venues like ACL, WWW, EMNLP, AAAI and ACM MM. He also serves as a reviewer and program committee member for top conferences and journals such as SIGIR, ACL, AAAI, TKDE, and TOIS.

Yixin CAO is a professor at School of Computer Science, Fudan University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and has held positions as a research fellow, research assistant professor, and assistant professor at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Singapore Management University, respectively. His research areas include natural language processing, knowledge engineering, and multimodal alignment. He has published over 70 papers at international renowned conferences and journals, with more than 7,900 citations on Google Scholar, and has been recognized as an outstanding oral presenter by top international conferences in the field. His research achievements have been awarded the Best Paper/Nomination at two international conferences. He has received Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, Google South Asia \& Southeast Asia Awards, the AI2000 Most Influential Scholar honorable mention, and Top 2\% Global Scientists of 2024 by Elsevier. Cao Yixin also serves as the demonstration program chair at ACL2024, local chair at WSDM2023, finance chair at the Web Conference2024, and area chair for multiple international conferences.