Title: Biological and Synthetic Collective Intelligence
Speaker: Yaochu Jin, Westlake University
Biography:
Yaochu Jin is Chair Professor for AI, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, with the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany. He is also a Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. He was a “Finland Distinguished Professor” of University of Jyväskylä, Finland, “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor”, Northeastern University, China, and “Distinguished Visiting Scholar”, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His main research interests include multi-objective and data-driven evolutionary optimization, evolutionary multi-objective learning, trustworthy AI, and evolutionary developmental AI.
Prof Jin is presently the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. He was named by the Web of Science as “a Highly Cited Researcher” since 2019. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of IEEE.
Title: Universal and Trustless Large-Value Payments in Cryptocurrencies
Speaker: Xinyi Huang, Jinan University
Biography:
Xinyi Huang received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is currently a Professor with the College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, China. His research interests include applied cryptography and network security, and has authored over 100 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals. His work has been cited more than 15000 times at Google Scholar (H-Index: 64).
Title: Modeling and Detection of Chromatin Loops
Speaker: Lin Gao, Xidian University
Biography:
She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University. Her research interests include data mining, bioinformatics, graph theory and optimization. She focused on computational model and algorithm in omics-data analysis, especially its application in cancer. Her research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China and other project. She has over 170 publications in professional journals, such as Nature Communications, Nature Methods, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, PLoS Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics et al. She also serves on various academic communities, member of China Computer Federation, Director of CCF Bioinformatics Committee, member of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Title: Large-Scale Parallel DNA Storage Using Unconventional Molecular Bits
Speaker: Cheng Zhang, Peking University
Biography:
Zhang Cheng is an associate researcher and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Peking University. His research focuses on DNA computing and molecular storage. He has published more than 50 papers as the first or corresponding author in journals such as Nature, Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Small, Nucleic Acids Res., etc. He has presided over National Key R&D Plan Projects, Key R&D Intergovernmental Cooperation Projects, Military Equipment Research Projects, National Natural Science Foundation, and Ministry of Education Equipment Joint Fund.
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