Organizers

Xuemeng Song

Shandong University, China

Dr. Xuemeng Song is currently an associate professor of Shandong University, Jinan, China. She received a B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2012, and a Ph.D. from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore in 2016. Her research interests include the information retrieval and social network analysis. She has published several papers in the top venues, such as ACM SIGIR, MM, TIP, and TOIS. In addition, she has served as a reviewer for many top conferences and journals.



Jingjing Chen

Fudan University, China

Jingjing Chen is now an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, Fudan University. Before that, she was a postdoc research fellow at the School of Computing in National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in July 2018, supervised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo. Her research interest lies in the areas of robust AI, multimedia content analysis, and deep learning. Dr. Chen won Best Student Paper Awards in ACM Multimedia 2016 and Multimedia Modeling 2017. In 2020, she was selected to the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program.



Federico Becattini

University of Florence, Italy

Federico Becattini is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the University of Florence. His research interests mostly focus on Autonomous Driving, Human Behavior understanding and Fashion Recommendation, also working with international academic and industrial partners. He has co-authored more than 20 scientific papers in journals and international conferences. He also serves as reviewer for top-tier conferences and journals in multimedia and computer vision. Recently, he has also co-organized the workshop “Facial and Body Expressions” at ICPR2020 and “Towards a Complete Analysis of People: From Face and Body to Clothes (T-CAP)”. at ICIAP2022.



Weili Guan

Monash University, Australia

Weili Guan received the master degree from National University of Singapore. After that, she joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Singapore as a Software Engineer and worked there for around five years. She is currently a PhD student with the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University (Clayton Campus), Australia. Her research interests are multimedia computing and information retrieval. She has published more than 20 papers at the first-tier conferences and journals, like ACM MM, SIGIR, and IEEE TIP.



Yibing Zhan

JD explore academy, China

Yibing Zhan obtained his bachelor's degree and doctor's degree from the information science and technology school at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2012 and 2018. After graduating with a doctor's degree, from 2018 to 2020, Yibing Zhan served as an associate researcher in the school of computer science of Hangzhou Dianzi University. Now, Yibing Zhan works in the JD Explore Academy as an algorithm scientist and head of graph neural networks. He mainly explores graph models and multimodal learning tasks, such as cross-modal retrieval, scene graph generation, and graph neural networks. He has published many scientific papers in top conferences and journals, including CVPR, ACM mm, AAAI, IJCV, and IEEE TMM.



Tat-Seng Chua

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Tat-Seng Chua is the KITHCT Chair Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University and the Visiting Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. Dr. Chua was the Founding Dean of the School of Computing from 1998-2000. His main research interests include unstructured data analytics; multimodal information retrieval, recommendation and conversation; and the emerging applications in E-commerce and Fintech. Dr Chua is the co-Director of NExT, a joint research Center between NUS and Tsinghua, focusing on Extreme Search.