Keynote Speakers
 | Prof. Jian WangChina University of Petroleum (East China), China Professor Wang Jian is Associate Dean of the School of Sciences at China University of Petroleum (East China), doctoral supervisor, and council member of the Shandong Mathematical Society. He directs three key labs, including the Joint Laboratory of Cross-Media Big Data and the Qingdao Municipal Key Laboratory of Industrial Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on embedded feature selection, intelligent optimization, big data modeling, and their applications in petroleum engineering. He has published over 200 papers. Professor Wang has received a First Prize of Natural Science from the Shandong Association for Artificial Intelligence and has led more than 10 major projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the National Key Research and Development Program. He has been recognized as a "Top-notch Talent" by his university and as a "Distinguished Talent" under the Qingdao "Wisdom Island Plan." He has served as Conference Chair for multiple international conferences, including the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and the 2023–2025 International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence. |
 | Prof. Ye LiQilu University of Technology, China Professor Ye Li is a Second-Grade Researcher and Doctoral Supervisor. He serves as an expert of the Shandong Provincial Decision-making Advisory Commission, a Taishan Scholar Young Expert, and a leading member of several provincial think tanks and innovation teams. He has been recognized as a National Cyberspace Innovation Talent and an Outstanding Scientific Worker of Shandong Province. He holds leadership roles in the Shandong Provincial Youth Federation and has served as Vice Chair of the Jinan Youth Federation. He is currently Director of the Shandong Institute of Science and Technology Development Strategy, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, the School of Management, and the School of Finance at Qilu University of Technology. He also serves as Vice President of the Shandong Computer Federation and President of the Shandong Association of Science of Science and Technology Management. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of the Shandong Computing Center and Director of the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks. Professor Li has led over 10 national and provincial projects, including those under the National Key Research and Development Program. He has published more than 100 papers, 4 monographs, and holds over 30 invention patents. His honors include the Second Prize of the Shandong Provincial Government Decision-making Consulting Award, the Third Prize of Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the Third Prize of the National Secrecy Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of Shandong Provincial Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, and multiple second-prize awards from the Shandong Academy of Sciences. |
| Assoc. Prof. Yi XiongHuazhong Agricultural University, China Yi Xiong is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University. His research interests include big-data-driven financial decision-making, big data auditing, corporate governance, and audit governance. His recent work explores how digital transformation and big data technologies shape corporate financial decisions and audit practices. He has led research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and other programs, and has published a number of papers in leading Chinese accounting journals such as Accounting Research and Auditing Research. |
Invited Speaker
| Asst. Prof. Peng LiuSingapore Management University He is an Assistant Professor in the Quantitative Finance (Practice) program at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, and also serves as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Statistics and Data Science and a Master's degree in Business Analytics from the National University of Singapore. With over ten years of rich practical experience across various industries including banking and technology, his research focuses on deep learning, sparse estimation, and Bayesian optimization. |
