Prof. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz
Boston University, USA

Bio: Dr. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz is a professor of computer science at Boston University.  Before joining Boston University, he was the Chief data officer at Waylens, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, which pushes AI to the edge by building AI-enabled dash cams for the automotive market. Prior to that, he was the Chief scientist at ClimaCell, Boston, working on leveraging cellular network and IoT sensors to predict weather with high accuracy and high spatial resolution. He joined Skyhook Wireless as Chief scientist and the first employee (2004 – 2017), where he built a scientific foundation of Wi-Fi/beacon global localization system. He is renowned for his pioneering work in WiFi/beacon global localization, and his patents have been licensed to companies like Apple and Google, and deployed in almost all smartphones, globally. Prior to Skyhook, he was at Hughes Network Systems, responsible for system and modem design of the first three satellite-based mobile networks. He owns 59 US patents.  He has been a senior member of IEEE since 2011, and he has been on the steering committees of several localization conferences.

Lecture Jian Song
Huaqiao University, China

Bio: Jian Song received her Ph.D. in Engineering. Her research interests include Medical Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition. She is currently a Lecturer at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Huaqiao University, China. She has twice been invited as a Visiting Researcher at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (2017–2018, supported by the Donghua Foundation; 2024–2025, supported by the China Scholarship Council), where she conducted cutting-edge research on AI-based medical image analysis. Over the past five years, she has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) of a project funded by the Xiamen Municipal Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 3502Z20227199, 2022–2025) and as a Co-Investigator of a project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61972165). Her research publications mainly focus on Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Deep Learning (DL) models.