Congress Keynotes
Plenary Keynote 1
Wen Gao
Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Director of Pengcheng Laboratory
Wen GAO is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He is the founding director of Pengcheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China). He is also a Boya Chair Professor and the director at the Faculty of Information and Engineering Sciences, Peking University. He is currently a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress. He used to be a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th CPPCC National Committee, the vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the chairman of China Computer Federation and the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computers.
He earned seven State Awards in Science and Technology Achievements as the first accomplisher. He received the National May 1 Labor Medal (2023), Wu Wenjun AI Highest Achievement Award (2023), the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2022), the Outstanding Contribution Award of Guangdong Province (2021), the CCF Wang Xuan Award and the title of “2005 China’s Top Ten Educational Talents”.
Wen GAO has engaged in the research of artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and virtual reality. He published six books and over 300 papers in international journals in the above areas.
Plenary Keynote 2: A Paradigm Shift in Service Research: The Case of Service Composition
Marco Aiello
Professor of Computer Science
Head of the Service Computing Department at the University of Stuttgart
Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Global Affiliated Research Faculty, Chang Gung University
Vice-president of Informatics Europe
Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Service Computing Department at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. An elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Global Affiliated Research Faculty at Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan. He is vice-president of Informatics Europe. He holds a PhD in Logic from the University of Amsterdam, the Habilitation in Applied Informatics from TU Wien, and a master’s degree in Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome. In 2016, together with three former Ph.D. students, he founded the company SustainableBuildings BV, acquired in 2020 by the Dutch energy company Innova BV. His research interests are in Service Computing, Smart Energy Systems, and Spatial Reasoning. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and several books, which have been cited more than 8.000 times.
The Promise of Service-Oriented Computing
Sanjiva Weerawarana
CEO and Chief Product Officer, WSO2
Founder and Chairman of the Lanka Software Foundation, the Lanka Data Foundation and the Avinya Foundation
Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana is the founder of WSO2 and serves as its CEO and Chief Product Officer. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Lanka Software Foundation, the Lanka Data Foundation and the Avinya Foundation. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. Previously he was a Board Member of Sampath Bank and several research institutions and university councils in Sri Lanka and served as a Volunteer Officer of the Sri Lanka Army.
Plenary Keynote 4: Scale Economies, Ecosystem, and Architectural Innovation
Zhimin Tang
Director and Chair Professor of the Faculty of Computility Microelectronics, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Zhimin Tang received his BSc degree from Nanjing University in 1985 and his PhD degree in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1990. He is the Director and Chair Professor of the Faculty of Computility Microelectronics, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. Before joining SUAT, he was a chief professor in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Tang is a highly accomplished computer scientist. His contribution in computer architecture and systems, especially in CPU design, analysis, and implementation, is groundbreaking and profound. This is especially evidenced not only by his many original outstanding academic publications, but also by several high-performance China indigenous CPU/GPU chips (e.g., Loongson and Hygon CPU chips, and XDX GPU chips) which were realized due to his both technical and managerial leadership. Some of these chips are in mass production now and are in use ubiquitously, benefiting the entire IT industry.
Plenary Keynote 5: Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are, Where We Are Going?
Joseph Sifakis
Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France
Professor Joseph Sifakis is Emeritus Research Director at Verimag. He has been a full professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for the period 2011-2016. He is the founder of the Verimag laboratory in Grenoble, a leading laboratory in the area of safety critical systems that he directed for 13 years.
Joseph Sifakis has made significant and internationally recognized contributions to the design of trustworthy systems in many application areas, including avionics and space systems, telecommunications, and production systems. His current research focuses on autonomous systems, in particular self-driving cars and autonomous telecommunication systems.
In 2007, he received the Turing Award, recognized as the “highest distinction in computer science”, for his contribution to the theory and application of model checking, the most widely used system verification technique.
Joseph Sifakis is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the French National Academy of Engineering, Academia Europea, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joseph Sifakis is a frequent speaker at international scientific, technical and public forums. He is the author of the book “Understanding and Changing the World” published in English and Chinese.
