Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speech 1

Speaker: James Hays (Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Speaker Biography: A pioneer in computer vision, Professor Hays works on image synthesis, recognition, and machine learning. His projects include geotagged imagery and off-road autonomous vehicles. He is a Sloan Fellow and recipient of the PAMI and ECCV awards.

Keynote Speech 2

Speaker: Angela Yao (Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, National University of Singapore)

Speaker Biography: Leading research in video understanding and digital humans, Professor Yao heads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning group at NUS. Her work bridges academia and industry, currently on sabbatical at Meta Reality Labs, and is supported by major grants from Singapore’s AI and tech agencies.

Keynote Speech 3

Speaker: Anton van den Hengel (Professor of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide)

Speaker Biography: The Chief Scientist at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and Director of the Centre for Augmented Reasoning. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, a Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Healthy Housing, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. The Centre for Augmented Reasoning (CAR), established in 2021, represents a $20m investment by the Australian Government in AI research. Professor van den Hengel was also the founder of AIML, Australia’s largest machine learning research group. Professor van den Hengel has been a CI on over $80m in research funding from sources, including Google, Facebook, Canon, BHP Billiton, and the ARC. Anton was a Director of Applied Science within Amazon for four years where he formed the Australian arm of Amazon’s International Machine Learning group.

Keynote Speech 4

Speaker: Alex John London (K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University)

Speaker Biography: A global leader in research ethics and AI governance, Professor London is known for shaping ethical standards for biomedical research and emerging technologies. He advises international bodies including the WHO and US National Academies, and focuses on accountability, fairness, and trust in AI.