| Prof. James Tin Yau KWOK (IEEE Fellow)The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China James Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He is an IEEE Fellow. Prof Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is serving / served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and an Action Editor of Machine Learning. He is also serving as Senior Area Chairs of major machine learning / AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and as Area Chairs of conferences including AAAI and ECML. He is on the IJCAI Board of Trustees. He is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for "outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI between 2009 and 2019", and an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar and 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. Prof Kwok is the IJCAI-2025 Program Chair and PAKDD-2026 General Chair. |
| Assoc. Prof. Marcin PaprzyckiSystems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland MARCIN PAPRZYCKI received the MS degree from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, the PhD degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and the doctor of science degree from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. He is an associate professor with the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of the ACM, a senior fulbright lecturer, and an IEEE Computer Society distinguished visitor. He has contributed to more than 500 publications and was invited to the program committees of more than 800 international conferences. |
