Invited Speakers
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(Track 1) To be announced, please check back later.
Biography:
Hans Bodlaender finished his PhD at Utrecht University in 1986, on a topic in Distributed Computing. He was postdoc at MIT in 1987, and worked as assistant, associate and full professor from 1987 till now at Utrecht University, and part time full professor from 2014 till 2018.
He worked on different topics in parameterized algorithms and complexity, and graph and network algorithms, including the treewidth of graphs and kernelization. He was received the EATCS-IPEC Nerode award in 2014 and 2024 , and the WG Test of Time award in 2024.
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Biography:
Huamin Qu is the dean of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) and the head of the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also a chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Prof. Qu holds a BS in Mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
His research focuses on visualization and human-computer interaction, covering urban informatics, social network analysis, E-learning, text visualization, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). He has co-authored approximately 300 refereed papers, with over 100 published in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, making him one of the journal's most productive researchers. Prof. Qu has received many awards, including 20 paper awards, the IEEE VGTC Technical Achievement Award and the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar in Visualization Award. He has led multiple large-scale research projects and graduated 47 PhD students, many of whom are now faculty members at major universities worldwide.