Speakers
Zheng YAN
Huashan Distinguished Professor
Xidian University, China
FIEEE, FIET, FAAIA, FAIIA
Speech Title: AI-empowered Trust and Trustworthy AI
Abstract: While artificial intelligence (AI) is contributing to the advancement of human society, it also presents us with new challenges. Its trustworthiness are worthy of in-depth exploration. This talk elucidates the aids of AI for trust evaluation and indicates the problems of AI trust, especially potential attacks on AI and the factors that impact AI trust. I will introduce recent research achievements of my team, including a robust and explainable trust evaluation model with dynamicity support by employing graph neural networks and a stealthy and practical audio backdoor attack with limited knowledge. Finally, several insights are proposed regarding AI trust management.
Bio:
Dr. Zheng Yan, Distinguished Professor at Xidian University, is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and AIIA Fellow. She is a Stanford World top 2% scientiss, a Finnish Academy Fellow, and a highly cited researcher by Elsevier in China. Her research interests are in trust management, information and network security, privacy protection, and data analysis. She has published about 400 papers in prestigious journals and conferences worldwide, including IEEE SP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, INFOCOM, and ICSE, with over 270 as first or corresponding author. She has authored two English books used for teaching for nearly a decade. She holds 110+ international and domestic patents, including 50 PCT patents (with 30 independent inventions), with more than150 patents adopted by industry, some of which have entered international standards or are widely used. Her U.S. patents are tracked by over 60 Fortune Global 500 companies. She has received numerous awards, including the Nokia Distinguished Inventor Award, three EU awards, N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE TEMS Distinguished Leadership Award, 18 times of IEEE Outstanding Leadership and Service Awards, AALTO ELEC Impact Award, IEEE ComSoc Big Data Technical Committee Best Journal Paper, IEEE TrustCom Outstanding Paper, Shaanxi Natural Science Award, and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor by the Electronic Association of China. She founded the first IEEE Blockchain International Conference and serves as a Steering Committee Co-chair. She serves as an Executive Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences and Area Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of over 60 journals, including ACM Computing Surveys, Information Fusion, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, etc. She has served as a General Chair or Program Committee Chair for over 40 international conferences and has delivered over 30 keynote and invited talks at international conferences and renowned enterprises.
Prof. Yongxiang Xia
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Bio:
Yongxiang Xia, PhD,Professor, PhD supervisor, received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering in 1998 and 2004, respectively, both from Tsinghua University, China. After that, he worked with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Australian National University, and Zhejiang University. He joined Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2019.Prof. Xia's research interests are in the area ofNetwork Science and Engineering, including modeling, robustness analysis and optimization of various complex networked systems.He has published more than 80 papers in the related areas.He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee and IEEE Power and Energy Circuits and Systems Technical Committee. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, and an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports. He served as a Guest Editor of Chaos, the Track co-Chair for the IEEE 2019International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2019).
Prof. Chuang Liu
Hangzhou Normal University, China
Speech Title: Drug reposition based on the single cell data analysis
Bio:
Chuang Liu received the Ph.D. degree in process system engineering from the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 2012. And he is currently a Professor at the Alibaba Research Center for Complexity Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University. His main research interests are in complex networks, data mine and Bioinformatics. He has presided three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and one Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in highly recognized journals, including Physics Reports, Nature Communications, with more than 2,600 citations.
Prof. Zike Zhang
Center for Digital Communication Studies, Zhejiang University, China
Speech Title: Data organization limits the predictability of binary classification
Bio:
Zi-Ke Zhang, Male, IEEE member, Ph.D in Information Physics in 2011 at University of Fribourg, Switzerland, now is serving as a Full Professor at College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University. His main research interests is the interdisciplinary area of data- and model-driven social computing oriented research questions, He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers with more than 5600 times from Google Scholar. He was also selected as Zhejiang Provincial Young academic Leaders (2017), and the Outstanding Teacher of Zhejiang Province (2018).