Dr. Chu received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He is currently a Professor at the Data Science and Analytics Thrust and Artificial Intelligence Thrust, Information Hub of HKUST(GZ), and an Affiliate Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the Acting Head of the Artificial Intelligence Thrust, and has been the Acting Head and Head of the Data Science and Analytics Thrust during 2023-25. He has been working at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University during 2003-2021. He was a vice-chairman of the Blockchain Technical Committee of China Institute of Communications. His current research interests include Machine Learning Systems, GPU Computing, Embodied AI, and AI4Science. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of AAIA.
Dr. Zhiming Zhao is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) research group at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (UvA). He serves as Technical Manager of the Virtual Lab and Innovation Center (VLIC) at LifeWatch ERIC, a European research infrastructure for ecology and biodiversity research. His research is inspired by the computing and software challenges of digital innovation and scientific discovery, where performance and service quality are critical to delivering application value, as in digital twins and real-time decision support. He focuses on holistic intelligence that bridges the gap between the quality-critical requirements of business and scientific applications and the underlying decentralized infrastructure services, using advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. Supported by numerous EU and Dutch research projects, his team researches and develops digital-twin-based decision support, cloud service automation, scientific workflow management, and performance optimization to tackle data and computational challenges across industrial innovation and scientific research; the outcomes have been deployed in European research infrastructures within the European Open Science Cloud. Dr. Zhao is a Senior Member of IEEE and Managing Editor of the Journal of Cloud Computing.