Prof. Bo Han is an Assistant Professor
in Machine Learning at Hong Kong Baptist University and a BAIHO Visiting
Scientist at RIKEN AIP, where his research focuses on machine learning, deep
learning, foundation models and their applications. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher
at Microsoft Research and a Postdoc Fellow at RIKEN AIP. He has co authored a
machine learning monograph by MIT Press. He has served as Area Chairs of
NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and UAI. He has also served as Action Editors and Editorial
Board Members of JMLR, MLJ, JAIR, TMLR and IEEE TNNLS. He received the
Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS and Outstanding Area Chair at ICLR. He
received the RIKEN BAIHO Award (2019), RGC Early CAREER Scheme (2020),
Microsoft Research StarTrack Program (2021), and Tencent AI Faculty Research
Award (2022).
Prof. Tongliang Liu is the Director of
Sydney AI Centre at University of Sydney, Australia; a Visiting Professor of
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China; a Visiting
Scientist of RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, Japan; and a Visiting Associate Professor at
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates. He has published more than 100 papers at leading ML/AI conferences
and journals. He is regularly the meta reviewer of ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, UAI,
IJCAI, and AAAI. He is the Action Editor of Transactions on Machine Learning
Research, Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and in the Editorial Board
of Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Machine Learning journal. He
received the ARC DECRA Award in 2018, ARC Future Fellowship Award in 2022, and
IEEE AI's 10 to Watch Award in 2023. He also received multiple faculty awards,
e.g., from OPPO and Meituan.