Keynote Speakers of ISCTIS 2026

ISCTIS 2026 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Pingyi Fan, Tsinghua University, China

(Member of NAAI, Winner of NAAI 2025 AI Exploration Award, IET Fellow)

He is a tenured professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, Director of the Open Source Data Cognitive Innovation Center, a Member (Academician) of the United States National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (US-NAAI) and the recipient of the NAAI 2025 AI Exploration Award & Outstanding Scientist Award, the Co-Chair of the Academic Committee of the NAAI Institute for Asia, the IET Fellow, and a member of the International Review Committee of IET Fellows. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1994 and stayed on to teach. He has published more than 600 academic papers, including 181 IEEE journals and 16 ESI highly cited papers. He has applied for more than 40 national patents, 7 international patents, and published 5 academic works. He has won the Best Paper Award at 16 IEEE and other international conferences, including IEEE ICCCS 2024, ICC2020, and Globecom2014, the IEEE TAOS 2020 Best Paper Award, the 2024 High Impact Paper Award from the Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE) of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the IEEE DCASE2024 Challenge Judge’s Award (DCASE2024 Challenge), AEIC (2023) Most Popular Scholar Award, IEEE TWC (2009) Excellent Editor Award, etc. He is currently on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) (2024-2026), the editorial board of IAES international Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI) (2023-2026), MDPI Section Editor-in-Chief of Electronics (2025-2027), The Chair of China 6G-ANA TG4 , etc. He has served as the General Chair, TPC Chairman or the Keynote Speaker more than 40 times at international conferences. His main research interests include 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and big data processing theory, and intelligent network and system detection.

Prof. Yuan Yan TANG, University of Macau, China 

(IEEE Life Fellow、IAPR Fellow、AAIA Fellow)

Professor Yuanyan Tang is the Chair Professor of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Macau, and holds positions as professor, associate professor, or honorary professor at multiple research institutions in China, the United States, Canada, France, and Hong Kong. His current research interests include wavelets, pattern recognition, image processing, and artificial intelligence. He has published over 400 academic papers and authored or co-authored more than 25 monographs, books, or book chapters. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution, and Information Processing (IJWMIP) and serves as an associate editor for several international journals. Additionally, he is the Founder and Chair of the Pattern Recognition Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Professor Tang has acted as General Chair, Program Chair, or committee member for numerous international conferences and is the Founder and General Chair of the International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR) series. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Macau Branch of the International Organization for Standardization.