Speakers 2026
Keynote Speaker I
Zhen Wang
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Bio: Zhen Wang is Dean of the School of Cyber Security, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Executive Vice Dean of the National Academy of State Secrets, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences, an AAIA/IOP Fellow, a Highly Cited Researcher, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the leader of a National Defence Innovation Team. His research focuses on online public opinion analysis and intelligent cyber warfare. He has published a series of papers in Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Advances, PRL, IEEE Transactions, IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and WWW, with over 26,000 citations. The systems he has developed have been applied to several models, and his achievements and contributions have been featured in special reports by renowned media outlets such as the People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Nature News, Live Science, and ScienceDaily, and have also been specifically commended by the Northern Theatre Command. He has delivered over 80 plenary or invited talks at international conferences and has led more than 20 research projects, including Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Overseas grants and GF projects. His accolades include the Science Exploration Award, the National Innovation and Excellence Medal, the China Youth May Fourth Medal, the National May Day Labour Medal, the inaugural MIT-TR35 China (the only recipient from the western region), and First Prizes in the Science and Technology Awards from the Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Province, the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
Speech Title: TBD
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Keynote Speaker II
Pengfei Zhu
Southeast University, China
Bio: Zhu Pengfei is a Professor at the School of Automation, Southeast University, and Director of the Low-Altitude Intelligence Laboratory at the Xiong’an National Innovation Center. His research mainly focuses on intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He established VisDrone, a large-scale open visual data platform for UAV research. He has published more than 100 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including Computer Vision venues such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and International Journal of Computer Vision. He received the First Prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award. He has also led more than ten major national research projects, including the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence” major project under China’s Science and Technology Innovation 2030 initiative, as well as Key Program and Young Scientists projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Speech Title: Low-Altitude Intelligence: From Perception and Reasoning to Collective Embodied Intelligence
Abstract: The low-altitude economy has emerged as a strategic pillar industry at the national level, while artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in enabling its safe and efficient development. This talk discusses the development of low-altitude intelligence from four perspectives: low-altitude environment perception, reasoning and decision-making, embodied intelligence, and collective intelligence. It further introduces strategies for constructing low-altitude data platforms by discussing the relationship between data scale and model generalization in statistical machine learning, as well as scaling laws in the era of foundation models. Finally, the talk will present the team’s recent advances in low-altitude intelligence and showcase representative case studies in urban low-altitude governance.