Speakers

Prof. Gexiang Zhang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Title: Spiking neural P systems: a branch of the third generation of neural networks

Full professor and the Dean at the School of Automation, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China. He is Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, IEEE Senior Member, IET Fellow. He was a visiting professor at The University of Sheffield, UK, a senior visiting professor at Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and a visiting professor at New York University, USA.  He is listed in World’s Top 2% Scientists and in Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier. He was selected as Sci-Tech Innovation Leading Talents in "Tianfu Qingcheng Plan" of Sichuan Province, Provincial Academic and Technical Leaders of Sichuan, New century outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education.

He is the President of International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS), the Managing Editor of Journal of Membrane Computing, an editorial board member of Axioms, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems and SN Computer Science. He is the co-winner of Grigore Moisil Prize of the Romanian Academy in 2019. He won the first Prize and the Outstanding Contribution Awards of Science and Technology Award of China Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology Industrialization, the Second Prize of Natural Science of Sichuan Province, the second and third prizes of Science and Technology Progress of Sichuan Province. Research areas include membrane computing, artificial intelligence, and their applications. He is the author/co-author of more than 200 publications, three monographs, and (lead) guest editor/co-editor of more than 10 volumes/proceedings. 

A.P. Luis Valencia-Cabrera, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Title: Towards Strong Modeling: Harnessing Deep Understanding of Real World through Cutting-Edge Simulation of Bioinspired Models

Permanent Member of Smart Computer Systems Research and Engineering (SCORE) Lab Excellence Unit of the University of Seville (Spain), Member of the Research Group on Natural Computing, and Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Member of the Website Committee of the International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS), Regular Reviewer in ISI-JCR journals, Member of International Scientific Committees, Principal Investigator of project VIMTA (Virus Machines: theory and applications, supported by Zhejiang Lab BioBit Program, 2023-2024). PhD Extraordinary Award in 2015 (PhD Program in Logics, Computer and AI), he has co-authored more than 130 scientific publications, including 53 papers in ISIJCR journals. Apart from his academic career, he has worked with International IT companies, as LektaAI (Poland-Spain, 2017-2018, winning first award in II Hackathon of NLP technologies, from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business) and Ayesa (Spain, 2005-2010, in positions from Fellow to Team Leader, achieving professional certifications IFPUG CFPS and Sun Microsystems – Oracle SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD). His research interests include complex systems modelling and simulation, natural computing (membrane computing and virus machines), theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and software development and engineering.

Prof. Jie Xue, Shandong Normal University, China

Title: Hypergraph based P Systems for Brain Tumor Image Processing

Professor, doctoral supervisor,Taishan scholar of Shandong Province, Dongyue scholar of Shandong Normal University, mainly engaged in the research of new biological heuristic computing models, artificial intelligence algorithms and their applications in medical image processing, especially the clinical research of brain tumors, fundus lesions, and pancreatic cancer. Various new parallel computing models, such as the simple complex membrane system, have been proposed, and machine learning algorithms based on these models have been designed. At the same time, a series of application research results have been achieved by combining the algorithms with clinical needs, providing theoretical and practical support for AI assisted personalized precision medicine. Published over 40 SCI journal papers as first author or corresponding author in relevant fields, including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IF=19.118), Information Fusion (IF=17.564), Medical Image Analysis (IF=13.828), Neuro Oncology (IF=13.029), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, etc. Hosted one sub project of the National Key Research and Development Program, three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and one major innovation project in Shandong Province. Led the team to be youth innovation team in Shandong Province's higher education institutions and an outstanding five lead graduate guidance team.