Dr. Wenchao Xu is current an Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research areas include multimodal learning, edge computing, integrated AI & networking design and have published papers at top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, and others.

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Dr. Liu is an assistant professor in the Division of Integrated Systems Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Hong Kong and did his PostDoc at Nanyang Technological University. Prior to that, he obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Wuhan University.

His research mainly concentrates on 3D computer vision and computer graphics. He is currently working on topics on 3D AIGC including 3D neural representations, 3D generative models, and 3D-aware video generation. His works are mainly published on top journals or conferences of CV and CG such as SIGGRAPH (Asia), ToG, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV,  T-PAMI, NeurIPS,  and ICLR. 

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Prof. Yunlong Zi, PhD, FInstP, SMIEEE, FIAAM, is an Associate Professor in Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Prof. Zi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2014; his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. Before joining HKUST, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2017-2022, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2014-2017. Prof. Zi is an active scholar in the field of triboelectric nanogenerator for high-performance energy harvesting. He coined the field of tribo-photonics toward the self-powered wireless sensing solutions. He has published over 150 journal publications with total citation of over 16000. Prof. Zi was honored as Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) 2023; Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE) 2023; MIT Technological Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia & Pacific 2022; Nano Energy Award winner 2021. He was also as Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) 2021; Vebleo Fellow 2021; the winner of MRS Postdoctoral Award by Materials Research Society in 2017; the Emerging Investigators by Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2018; MINE Young Investigator Finalist in 2018; and one of “5 students who are transformation makers” as highlighted in Purdue homepage in 2013.

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Prof. Wenqi Hu holds a Bachelor's degree in Microelectronics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on optically-controlled microrobots. After completing his Ph.D., Prof. Hu joined the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) as a Humboldt research fellow and progressed to a senior scientist role in 2019, later becoming the head of the bioinspired autonomous miniature robots group in 2022. His research has contributed to the fields of soft magnetic materials and the control of miniature soft robots, with his work published in respected journals such as Nature and Science Robotics. Dr. Hu's research has garnered over 5,000 citations and received accolades like the ICRA 2012 Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, RSS 2019 Best Paper Award, and the Günter Petzow Prize from the Max Planck Society. Beyond his research, he also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics and participates in various committees for conferences such as Living Machine and MARSS.

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Prof. Mo Li is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Division of Integrative Systems and Design, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST in 2023, he was a Professor at Nanyang Technological University. Prof. Li has been internationally recognized for his research in wireless and mobile computing. Over the past few years, Prof. Li has developed numerous methods, techniques, and systems that resulted in top journal and conference publications that received over 10,000 citations. He has been on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, all leading journals in the field. He also served the technical program committee member for top conferences in computer systems and networking, including ACM MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, and others. Prof. Li is a Distinguished Member of the ACM since 2019, and a Fellow of the IEEE since 2020.

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Dr. Hongri (Richard) Gu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2014, during which he also participated in the Young Scientist Exchange Program (YSEP) at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2014. In 2016, he completed his Master’s degree in Micro and Nanosystems at ETH Zurich. From 2017 to 2021, Dr. Gu conducted his doctoral research at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Bradley Nelson. During his Ph.D., he served as an editorial assistant for Science Robotics and the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, managing submissions in microrobotics, medical robotics, and soft robotics. From 2022 to 2024, he pursued postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

Dr. Gu’s research focuses on developing structured magnetic materials and robotic systems for future disruptive medical technologies, with an emphasis on understanding multi-scale physiological transport and inventing novel medical devices and surgical tools.

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