Forum on Cross-Innovation Talent Cultivation for Unmanned Equipment Operating Systems

Biography:

Kenli Li is Vice President of Hunan University and Director of the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha. He is a recipient of the National Award for Excellence in Innovation, a member of national high-level talent programs, a CCF Fellow, a Baosteel Outstanding Teacher, and a recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance. He leads the Ministry of Education Innovation Talent Base for High-Performance Computing and serves as Director of the Engineering Research Center of High-Performance Computing Application Software Technology (Ministry of Education). He is Vice Chair of the National Supercomputing Innovation Alliance, a member of the Expert Committee of the New-Generation AI Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, a member of the overall expert group of the National Key R&D Program on High-Performance Computing, an IEEE Senior Member, Chair of CCF Changsha, and Vice Chair of the Hunan Computer Federation. He also serves as associate editor for IEEE TC / TSUSC / TII and as an editorial board member of Journal of Computer Research and Development. He has led more than 40 national and provincial projects, including National Key R&D Program projects and NSFC key projects. As the first contributor, he has received two Second Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, one China Patent Gold Award, and four first-class provincial/ministerial science and technology awards, as well as the National Science and Technology Progress Award (Innovation Team, ranked 13th). His research focuses on high-performance computing scheduling and applications, with more than 200 papers in CCF-A venues and IEEE/ACM transactions, and more than 150 authorized patents and software copyrights.

Biography:

Zhuo Tang is Dean of the College of Information Science and Engineering and Dean (concurrent) of the College of Cyberspace Security at Hunan University. He also serves as Director of the Culture and Media Computing Research Center, Chief Engineer of the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, a member of national high-level talent programs, and Director of the Hunan Engineering Research Center of Computing Power Networks. He has long worked on high-performance distributed computing and trusted computing. He has led more than 20 major projects, including foundational strengthening major projects, National Key R&D Program projects, an NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars project, a National STI 2030 “New Generation Artificial Intelligence” major project topic, and key/general NSFC projects, as well as major science and technology projects of Hunan Province and Changsha. He has published more than 220 papers in leading journals and conferences, holds 66 invention patents (including one international patent), and has achieved technology transfer worth nearly RMB 100 million. He also contributed to a provincial/ministerial general standard for domestic cloud computing technologies. His awards include Second Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2019, 2023), a First Prize of the Ministry of Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (2025), first prizes in Hunan technological invention awards, a First Prize of the Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Award, and a First Prize of the China Industry–University–Research Collaboration Innovation Achievement Award.

Invited speakers (detailed profiles being collected):

Qing Liao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), Rong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University), Cheng Wang (Tongji University), Leyuan Fang (Hunan University), Ju Ren (Tsinghua University), Yougang Bian (Hunan University), Wei Wang (Hunan University)

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