MLNLP 2026 Speakers

 

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. James Tin-Yau Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (IEEE Fellow)

James Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow. Prof Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is serving / served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and an Action Editor of Machine Learning. He is also serving as Senior Area Chairs of major machine learning / AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and as Area Chairs of conferences including AAAI and ECML. He is on the IJCAI Board of Trustees. He is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for "outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI between 2009 and 2019", and an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. Prof Kwok is the IJCAI-2025 Program Chair and PAKDD-2026 General Chair.

 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Jixin Ma, University of Greenwich, UK

Jixin Ma is a Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) and Director of PhD/MPhil Programme at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich. He has also been the Director of the Centre for Computer and Computational Science (2011-18) and Leader of Artificial Intelligence Research Group (2008–2018). His main research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Information Systems, with special interests in Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Information Security, Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning.

He has published 200+ research papers in top-tier journals including Information Fusion, Information Sciences, IEEE IoT, IEEE Trans on Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, Neural Computing and Applications, Information Systems, Neurocomputing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the Computer Journal, Applied Ontology, Artificial Intelligence Review, etc., and at esteemed international conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI and ECAI, etc. He has won 6 Best Papers / Student Paper awards and as Principal / Co-Investigator, received research grants worth more than £330,000. He obtained his BSc and MSc of Mathematics in 1982 and 1988, respectively, and PhD of Computer Sciences in 1994. Before his professorship appointment, he was a Reader (2007-2019), Senior Lecturer (1997-2006), and Research Fellow and Lecture (1994 – 1996), at University of Greenwich, U.K. He is also a Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, Anhui University, Hainan University, Zhengzhou Light Industrial University and Macau City University.

 

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Nianyin Zeng, Xiamen University, China

Nianyin Zeng was born in Fujian Province, China, in 1986. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automation in 2008 and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering in 2013, both from Fuzhou University. From October 2012 to March 2013, he was a RA in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. From September 2017 to August 2018, he as an ISEF Fellow founded by the Korea Foundation for Advance Studies and also a Visiting Professor at the Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology. Currently, he is a Professor with the Department of Instrumental & Electrical Engineering of Xiamen University. His current research interests include intelligent data analysis, computational intelligent, time-series modeling and applications. He is the author or co-author of several technical papers and also a very active reviewer for many international journals and conferences. Prof. Zeng is currently serving as Associate Editors for Neurocomputing, Evolutionary Intelligence, and Frontiers in Medical Technology, and also Editorial Board members for Computers in Biology and Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Online, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering.

 

 

Keynote Speaker IV

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