IEEE Fellow; James B. Davis Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University

Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences; Foreign Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Mongolia; Honorary Member of National Academy of Sciences of Moldova; Professor at Business School, Sichuan University

IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Associate Professor in the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University; Co-Editor-of-Chief for Pattern Recognition Letters, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, and Pattern Recognition

Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; Fellow of American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering; Fellow of Optica; Moustakas Chair Professor of Optoelectronics and Photonics in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives of Boston University Photonics Center, Boston University, USA.

Dr. Jizhong Zhu is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Foreign Corresponding Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Italy, a Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a Foreign Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, an IEEE Fellow, a Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE Fellow), an IET Fellow, AAIS Fellow and AIIA Fellow. He is a Professor and PhD supervisor at South China University of Technology (SCUT) and Adjunct Professor at Chongqing University. He serves as Chair of the IEEE PES Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems Technical Committee (China), Chairs of several international standard working groups, and Editor-in-Chief of SESR and IEET journals. He promoted to Full Professor of Chongqing University in 1994, and worked for over 20 years in the UK (Royal Society Fellow at Brunel University), Singapore (Research Fellow at National University of Singapore), and the USA (Senior Principal Engineer and Alstom Fellow at Alstom) before returning to China in 2016 as a national distinguished expert at China Southern Power Grid Research Institute. Since 2019, he leads the Integrated Smart Energy System Optimal Operation and Control (ISESOOC) Center at SCUT. He has published over 400 papers, holds more than 30 patents, sole-authored seven books, and received numerous national and international awards, including IEEE Standards Medallion.

EurAI Fellow; Professor and Head of the Knowledge-Based Systems Research Group (KBS), Osnabrück University; Head of the research group on Plan-Based Robot Control, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI); Speaker of the DFKI Lab Niedersachsen at Osnabrück and Oldenburg

Member of the Academia Europaea; Recipient of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize; Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists; Recipient of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE); Professor of Applied Neuroimaging at the University of Edinburgh, Foundation Chair in the UK Dementia Research Institute, Director of the Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain, and Consultant Neuroradiologist for NHS Lothian.

Full Professor ("Professor Catedrático") at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal; IEEE Fellow class of 2022; Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Engineering in 2023; Top 2% of Scientists since 2019; Best Scientist 2022-2025 in Research.com; Primary Coordinator of the 5.2-million-euro FP7-EU project SiNGULAR, 2012-2015; Primary Coordinator of the 4.5-million-euro Horizon-EU project EU-DREAM, 2024-2027; Coauthored more than 500 journal publications; Won 5 Best Paper Awards at IEEE Conferences.

IEEE Fellow; EurAI Fellow; Full Professor at Faculty of Economics and Senior Researcher at Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support, University of Porto

EurAI Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), affiliated with IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Toulouse, France; Research Chair of the AI Interdisciplinary Institute ANITI (Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute), University of Toulouse.

IAPR Fellow; Professor at the Department of Computing, Sao Paulo State University, Bauru - Brazil; Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany); Visiting Professor at Harvard University (2014-2015) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2024-2025); His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and optimization.

President-Elect of the IEEE Computer Society for 2026; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Eurographics Association; Free Member of the French National Academy of Surgery; Induction to the IEEE VR Academy; ACM Distinguished Member; UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Virtual and Extended Reality; Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UTL), the School of Engineering of the Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal; Editor-in-chief of Computers and Graphics Journal; Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award in 2024, and the IFIP Silver Core Award in 2014.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of the Post-Graduation Program in electrical engineering at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil; Adjunct Research Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.

IEEE Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Research Director as well as Research Professor at IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain.

Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW); IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; Fellow of the American College of Cardiology; Professor of Medical Image Processing at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Netherlands; CSO of Medis, The Netherlands; Former Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Member of Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. University Professor of Logic, em., University of Amsterdam, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, Jin Yuelin Professor of Logic, Tsinghua University. Founding Director of Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam, Codirector, UvA-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Logic, Beijing.