ICCRD Speakers
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ICCRD 2026 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Erik Cambria
IEEE Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Speech Title: 7 Pillars for the Future of AI
BIO: Erik Cambria is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at NTU CCDS, where he also holds the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering, and a Visiting Professor at MIT Media Lab. He has founded several AI companies, such as SenticNet (https://business.sentic.net), offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and finaXai (https://finaxai.com), providing fully explainable financial insights, and has worked at HP Labs and Microsoft Research prior to joining academia. Today, his research focuses on neurosymbolic AI for interpretable and explainable affective computing in domains like mental health, climate resilience, and socially responsible investing. Prof Cambria is ranked in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers List of World's Top 1% Scientists, is recipient of many awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Early Career, was listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of various top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in several international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and committee member.
Prof. Yasushi Yagi
Fellow of IPSJ
Osaka University, Japan
Speech title: What can we know from gait ?
- identity, gender, age, emotions, intentions, health etc -
BIO: Yasushi Yagi is the Emeritus Professor, the specially appointed professor of D3 center, and the general manager of Initiative for Life Design Innovation, The University of Osaka. He received his Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1991. In 1985, he joined the Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, where he worked on robotics and inspections. He became a research associate in 1990, a lecturer in 1993, an associate professor in 1996, a professor in 2003 at Osaka University. He was the director of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University from 2012 to 2015. He was the Executive Vice President of Osaka University from 2015 to 2019. He has served as General Chair or Program Chair at numerous international conferences. In 2025, he has served as general chairs of IJCB2025 and SNL2025. He has served as the Editor of IEEE ICRA Conference Editorial Board (2008-2011), the member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Vision, the member of Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics and as the Editor-in-Chief of IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision & Applications, and as the Vice-President of Asian Federation of Computer Vision Societies. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Biometrics Council (2022-2024) . He is a fellow of IPSJ, a member of IEICE and a life senior member of IEEE. He was awarded ACM VRST2003 Honorable Mention Award, IEEE ROBIO2006 Finalist of T.J. Tan Best Paper in Robotics, IEEE ICRA2008 Finalist for Best Vision Paper, PSIVT2010 Best Paper Award, MIRU2008 Nagao Award, IEEE ICCP2013 Honorable Mention Award, MVA2013 Best Poster Award, IWBF2014 IAPR Best Paper Award, IPSJ Trans. on Computer Vision and Applications Outstanding Paper Award (2011, 2013), IAPR ICB2016 Honorable Mention Award. He has published over 600 papers in international journals, international conferences proceedings. His main research interest includes computer vision, pattern recognition, intelligent robot, medical & healthcare applications.
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ICCRD 2025 Keynote Speakers
BIO: De-Shuang Huang is a Professor in Institute of Machine Learning and Systems Biology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. He is currently the foreign Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering, the Fellow of the IEEE (IEEE Fellow), the Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR Fellow), the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and associated editors of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, etc. He founded the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) in 2005. ICIC has since been successfully held annually with him serving as General or Steering Committee Chair. He also served as the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2015) General Chair, July12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland, the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (IEEE-CIBCBC) Program Committee Chair, May 21-24, 2014, Honolulu, USA. He has published over 480 papers in international journals, international conferences proceedings, and book chapters. Particularly, he has published over 260 SCI indexed papers. His Google Scholar citation number is 24066 times and H index 80. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics.
Prof. De-Shuang Huang
黄德双教授，宁波东方理工大学(IEEE, IAPR, AAIA会士）
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China
IEEE/IAPR/AAIA Fellow
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BIO: Xiaoli is currently the Department Head and Senior Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore. He also serves as an adjunct full professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With a diverse range of research interests, Xiaoli focuses on cutting-edge areas such as AI, data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. His contributions to these fields are evident through his extensive publication record, boasting over 350 peer-reviewed papers, and the recognition he has received, including over ten best paper awards. He has been serving as Editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Artificial Intelligence and an Associate Editor for prestigious journals like IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge and Information Systems, as well as conference chairs and area chairs of leading AI, machine learning, and data science conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, ICDM etc. Beyond academia, Xiaoli possesses extensive industry experience, where he has successfully spearheaded over 10 R&D projects in collaboration with major industry players across diverse sectors, such as aerospace, telecom, insurance, and professional service companies. Xiaoli is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He has been recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists in the AI domain by Stanford University and one of the top ranked computer scientists by Research.com.
Prof. Li Xiaoli
李晓黎教授，新加坡科技研究局
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow