Keynote Speaker

 Junchi Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China  

严骏驰，上海交通大学计算机系长聘轨副教授，人工智能重点实验室主任助理。科技部2030新一代人工智能青年科学家项目负责人、自然基金委优青、教育部人工智能资源建设深度学习首席专家。曾任IBM中国研究院首席研究员。获中国计算机学会优博、人工智能学会吴文俊优青等科技奖励。主要研究方向为机器学习，特别是与运筹优化、量子计算等领域的结合。发表CCF-A类第一/通讯作者论文近百篇，授权美国发明专利超30项，谷歌学术引用超过8000次。任ICML、NeurIPS、CVPR、AAAI等会议领域主席、Pattern Recognition期刊编委。

Junchi Yan is currently a Full Professor (tenured) with Department of Computer Sciencen and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Before that, he was a Senior Research Staff Member and Principal Scientist wit h IBM Research where he started his career since April 2011. He obtained the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research interest is machine learning and its intersection with other areas e.g. operations research and quantum computing. He serves as Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition Journal and ACM Trans. on Probabilistic Machine Learning, and (Senior) Area Chair/Senior PC for ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, etc. He has published over 100 publications in top venues with over 10K google scholar citations.