ICCBDCS Keynote Speaker
Yu-Wang Chen, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Biography: Yu-Wang Chen is Professor of Decision Sciences and Business Analytics at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), The University of Manchester. He was Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute from 2021 to 2023. Prior to joining AMBS, he worked briefly as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the PhD degree in System Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
His research focuses on Decision Sciences, Data Analytics and AI, with applications in business analytics, maritime transportation, risk analysis, healthcare decision support, etc. He has published more than 100 research articles in leading journals, such as EJOR, IEEE SMC, IS, IF, KBS, and C&OR, 5 books or book chapters and 20+ publications in conference proceedings.
He has been awarded a portfolio of research or industry projects as PI, Joint PI or Co-I by Innovate UK, Turing-UoM Fund, EPSRC, ERDF, etc. He currently serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of multiple international journals.
Tianrui Li, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Biography: Dr Tianrui Li is a Professor, Dean of School of Computing and Artificial Intelligenc, and the Director of the Key Lab of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Technique of Sichuan Province, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Since 2000, he has co-edited 10 books, 12 special issues of international journals, received 36 Chinese invention patents and published over 500 research papers with more than 26,000 citations in refereed journals (e.g., AI, IJCV, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS) and conferences (e.g., AAAI, ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ICDE, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, UbiComp, WWW). 7 papers were ESI Hot Papers and 26 papers were ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has been ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists and honored as a China Highly Cited Researcher. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, Area Editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Editor of Information Fusion, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, etc. He is the Fellow and Vice-President of IRSS, and the Secretary of ACM SIGKDD China Chapter.