National University of Defense Technology, China

Biography: Xinwang Liu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2023) and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2019). He serves as the Principal Investigator for Key Projects of the NSFC and the Sci-Tech Innovation 2030 Major Project, and is a core member of the NSFC Innovative Research Group. Focusing on machine learning and data mining, Professor Liu has published over 200 papers in CCF-A journals and conferences, including 30 in IEEE T-PAMI (with 3 as the sole author), and has garnered over 20,000 Google Scholar citations, ranking among the World's Top 2% Scientists for three consecutive years (2022–2024). His extensive research achievements have earned him numerous prestigious accolades, including the First Prizes of the CCF Natural Science Award (2025, ranked 1st), Wu Wenjun AI Natural Science Award (2024, 1st), and Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award (2024, 2nd), along with multiple Hunan Provincial and CSIG Natural Science Awards. Furthermore, he serves as an Associate Editor for leading international journals such as IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-NNLS, and IEEE T-CYB, and acts as an Area Chair for premier international conferences including ICML and NeurIPS.