Jianying Zhou

Centre Director, iTrust, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Professor, ISTD, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Jianying Zhou is a professor and center director for iTrust at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He received PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests are in applied cryptography and network security, cyber-physical system security, mobile and wireless security. He is a co-founder & steering committee co-chair of ACNS. He is also steering committee chair of ACM AsiaCCS, and steering committee member of Asiacrypt. He is an ACM Distinguished Member. He received the ESORICS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2020, in recognition of contributions to the community.

Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang holds a tenured faculty position (equivalent to a full professor) at the CISPA Center for Information Security and Privacy. His research areas include Trustworthy Machine Learning with a focus on LLM (Security, Privacy and Security), Misinformation, Hate Speech and Memes, and Social Network Analysis. Currently, he has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and serves as a program committee member of several top conferences.

Hongxia Yang

Dr. Hongxia Yang, PhD from Duke University, has published over 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and holds more than 50 patents in the USA and China. Previously, she worked as a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson research center, principal scientist at Yahoo!, an AI scientist and Director at Alibaba DAMO Academy, an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University’s Shanghai Advanced Research Institute and the Head of Large Language Models at ByteDance US.

Awards And Honors

[2016] Recognized by WILEY as one of the world’s most inspirational female data scientists.

[2019] World Artificial Intelligence Conference’s highest award, the Super AI Leader (SAIL Award).

[2020] National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Class for Key Technologies in Intelligent Science and Technology Information Mining and Knowledge Services and Their Large-Scale Application (Third Contributor, jointly applied with Tsinghua University).

[2020] National Natural Science Foundation of China key project, Research on Autonomous, Efficient, and Generalizable Neural Network Models in Complex E-commerce Environments(jointly applied with Zhejiang University).

[2021] Chinese Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress First Class for Ultra-Large Scale High-Performance Graph Neural Network Computing Platform and Its Applications(Second Contributor, jointly applied with Zhejiang University).

[2022] Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award First Class for Large-Scale Graph Neural Network Edge-Cloud Collaborative Computing Platform and Application Demonstration (Third Contributor, jointly applied with Zhejiang University).

[2022] Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes China.

[2023-24] AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award.