Invited Speaker
Laurence Tianruo Yang
FCAE, FEIC, MAE, MNAAI, MRAE, FIEEE
Zhengzhou University, China
Abstract:
The booming growth and rapid development in embedded systems, wireless communications, sensing techniques and emerging support for cloud computing and social networks have enabled researchers and practitioners to create a wide variety of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) that reason intelligently, act autonomously, and respond to the users’ needs in a context and situation-aware manner, namely Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence. It is the integration of computation, communication and control with the physical world, human knowledge and sociocultural elements. It is a novel emerging computing paradigm and has attracted wide concerns from both industry and academia in recent years.
This talk will present our latest research on Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence. Corresponding case studies in some typical applications will be shown to demonstrate the feasibility and flexibility.
Biography:
Laurence T. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is the Academic Vice-President and Dean of School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, China. His research includes Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence. He has published 600+ papers in the above area on top IEEE/ACM Transactions with total citations of 47000+ and H-index of 110 including 8 and 44 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly cited ESI papers, respectively.
His recent honors and awards include a member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (2025) and a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe (2021), IEEE CS Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2026), NAAI Distinguished AI Scholar Award (2025), IEEE TEMS Technical Achievement Award on Blockchain (2022), John B. Stirling Medal (2021) from Engineering Institute of Canada, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award (2020), IEEE Canada C. C. Gotlieb Computer Medal (2020), IEEE TCSC Technical Achievement Award on Scalable Computing (2017), Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science Group) Highly Cited Researcher (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (2020), Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2020), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (2019), Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), etc.
Renmin Han
Research Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences,
Shandong University
Biography:
Renmin Han received his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the end of 2019, he joined the Research Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences at Shandong University, where he has been working ever since. His research focuses on fundamental algorithms at the intersection of computational and biological sciences, with particular interests in bioinformatics-related problems in biological signal and image processing, including computational and inverse problems in cryo-electron microscopy 3D reconstruction. He is a major contributor to AuTom, the first domestically developed software for cryo-electron tomography 3D reconstruction. His work has been published in leading bioinformatics journals such as *Nature Communications*, *Advanced Science*, *Genome Biology*, *Fundamental Research*, *Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics (GPB)*, and *Bioinformatics*; in important electron microscopy journals including *Structure*, *Journal of Structural Biology (JSB)*, and *Ultramicroscopy*; as well as in top artificial intelligence conferences such as NeurIPS, ICCV, AAAI, ACM MM, and ISMB/ECCB. He has served as principal investigator for several national and provincial research grants, including the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Young Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Shandong Provincial Excellent Young Scientist Fund. In 2023, he was selected for the Taishan Scholars Youth Program of Shandong Province, and in 2025, he was named a Youth Top-notch Talent of the National “Ten Thousand Talents” Program.
