Prof. Huiyu Zhou
University of Leicester, UK 

Biography: Prof. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Prof. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has received Distinguished AI Scholar and Exemplary Awards of NAAI in 2025. His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Innovate UK, Royal Society, British Heart Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry.

 

 

Prof. Anthony (Tony) Cohn
University of Leeds, UK 

Biography: Anthony (Tony) Cohn is Professor of Automated Reasoning in the School of Computing, University of Leeds. His current research interests range from theoretical work on spatial calculi (receiving a KR test-of-time classic paper award in 2020) and spatial ontologies, to cognitive vision, modelling spatial information in the hippocampus, and Decision Support Systems, particularly for the built environment, as well as robotics. He is Foundation Models lead at the Alan Turing Institute where he is conducting research on evaluating the capabilities of large language models, in particular with respect to commonsense reasoning. He is Editor-in-Chief of Spatial Cognition and Computation and was previously Editor-in-chief of the AI journal. He is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A Simon Cognitive Systems Prize, as well as Distinguished Service Awards from AAAI, IJCAI, KR and EurAI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and of the AI societies AAAI, AISB, EurAI and AAIA.

 

 

Prof. Hui Yu
University of Glasgow, UK 

Biography: Hui Yu is a Professor with the University of Glasgow. He leads the Visual and Cognitive Computing Group at the university. His research interests lie in visual and cognitive computing as well as machine learning with applications to 4D facial expression modelling and analysis, human-machine interaction, intelligent vehicle, and video analysis. Professor Yu’s research work has led to several awards and successful collaboration with worldwide institutions and industries. He is the Associate Vice President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and a Scientific Advisor for some high-tech companies in the UK. Prof. Yu is the PI on grants from a diverse range of funding sources including the EPSRC, EU FP7, RAEng, Royal Society, Innovate UK and Industry. He has been awarded Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. He serves as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.