| Prof. Fengming DuDalian Maritime University, China Fengming Du is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Dalian Maritime University, having received his Ph.D. from Dalian University of Technology. His primary research interests include engine material design, mechanical analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine vision. He has received numerous honors, such as the Liaoning Province "Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents" award and the Dalian Youth Science and Technology Star, and serves as an editor for journals including Lubricants and Coatings. Dr. Du has presided over multiple scientific research projects, including those funded by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and key projects of the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 70 academic papers, with his research covering areas such as the dynamics of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, laser cladding coatings, and the mechanical behavior of continuous casting. Additionally, he holds several patents, including technologies for RGBD underwater salient object detection and lubrication testing machines. As a recipient of the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Academic Achievement Award and a technical review expert for multiple panels, Dr. Du possesses extensive experience and has made outstanding contributions to the fields of material design and intelligent detection. |
| Assoc. Prof. Lei ChenShandong University, China Lei Chen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include image processing and computer vision, visual quality assessment and pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the principal investigator of projects granted from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He has published more than60 papers on top international journals and conferences in recent years including IEEE TIP, Signal Process., ICME, etc. He was awarded the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University. He served for many international conferencesasProgram Chair,Technical Chair or Publicity Chair. |
