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University of Alberta, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Li Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include computer vision, multi-modal data analytics, and applications. In particular, his recent interests include 3D reconstruction and animation of human and animal motions. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including a nomination for Best Paper Award at CVPR 2021, the best publication venue in computer vision. More recent details can be found at his lab website, https://vision-and-learning-lab-ualberta.github.io/. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Image Processing (2026-), IEEE Trans. Multimedia (2021-26), Pattern Recognition (2019-), among others.
The University of Texas at Austin , USA
Plenary Speaker
Matthew Lease is a Professor of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centered Computing. Lease is a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and an Amazon Scholar. Lease also co-directs the $20M NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI, (https://www.cosmicai.org) and is a faculty founder and leader of UT's Good Systems (http://goodsystems.utexas.edu), an eight-year, $20M university-wide Grand Challenge aimed at designing responsible AI technologies. Recent honors include the 2024 AAAI HCOMP Test of Time Award, the 2024 IEEE/ACM ASE Most Influential Paper Award, and a ACM CSCW 2024 Honorable Mention. Beyond scholarship, Lease has also informed responsible AI policy at state and national levels, including four invitations to address the Texas Legislature on responsible AI in 2023-2024 (https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/news/good-systems-great-policy). For more information, please visit https://mattlease.com.