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Content overview: The 2023 IJCAI YES Youth Elite Academic Conference ended successfully at East China Normal University in Shanghai. The three-day conference covered the most cutting-edge academic achievements and industry challenges. It provided many opportunities for exchanges and cooperation among participating scholars, and selected three new academic stars. HyperAI is honored to participate as a co-organizer.
Keywords: 2023 IJCAI YES IJCAI-SAIA China Office
Just now, the 2023 IJCAI Young Elite Symposium (Young Elite Symposium) was successfully concluded at East China Normal University in Shanghai, marking a strong stroke for the academic exchanges of young artificial intelligence scholars in Shanghai and even in China and the development of artificial intelligence.
The conference was jointly organized by WAIC Organizing Committee and IJCAI-SAIA China Office, and authorized by IJCAI. As a large-scale offline academic exchange meeting after the epidemic, this conference is advised by three IJCAI council members, Yang Qiang, Zhou Zhihua, and Zhang Chengqi. Dr. Shao Yilei is the chairman of the conference, and Luc De Raedt, Zhou Aoying, and Zhang Guixu are the program committee chairmen.
During the three-day conference, 5 top international AI experts delivered keynote speeches, and 54 young authors whose papers were included in IJCAI-2021 and IJCAI-2022 shared their research results and their latest scientific research progress on the spot. More than 600 experts, scholars and young students in the field of artificial intelligence attended the conference .
The activities of the conference on the first day include regular sessions such as the opening ceremony, five Keynote reports and paper reports. The agenda of the conference covers the most cutting-edge academic achievements and industry challenges, providing more opportunities for scholars to exchange and cooperate. In addition, the "Academic Rising Star" award was also presented at the closing ceremony to encourage young researchers to be brave in innovation and strive for greater breakthroughs.
As of this afternoon, the opening ceremony, special report, academic report, special discussion, Industry Day, award ceremony and other special links of the conference have all ended. Dr. Shao Yilei, the chairman of the conference and secretary-general of the IJCAI-SAIA Joint Office, attended and presided over the closing ceremony.
At the closing ceremony, Christian Bessiere, Chairman of IJCAI Council, and Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz, Secretary General of IJCAI delivered speeches respectively, expressing their high appreciation and encouragement for the outstanding performance of young scholars. They emphasized that young scholars are an important force in promoting innovation in the field of artificial intelligence, and encouraged them to continue to persevere and pursue excellence. They hoped to meet you again at IJCAI 2023 in Macau and IJCAI 2024 in Shanghai next year. Professor Zhang Chengqi summarized the conference.
Three academic rising stars talk about the frontier of AI
According to the conference settings, the conference will select three outstanding representatives from the 54 young scholars who participated in the speech according to the scores accepted by the IJCAI conference and the scores given by the organizing committee and Session Chair . At the closing ceremony, Dr. Shao Yilei announced that three doctoral students, Ding Jianhao from Peking University, Wang Di from Dalian University of Technology, and Tu Wenxuan from National University of Defense Technology, won the title of "Academic Rising Star".
Dr. Shao Yilei at the "Academic Rising Star" Award Ceremony
Ding Jianhao
Ding Jianhao, PhD candidate at Peking University, supervised by Professor Huang Tiejun/Assistant Professor Yu Zhaofei. The main directions include spiking neural networks, neuromorphic computing, etc. Published many research papers in international journals or conferences such as IJCAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, AAAI, FGCS, and served as a reviewer for international artificial intelligence journals and conferences such as NeurIPS, ICCV, IEEE TNNLS.
The Talk shared by Ding Jianhao at this conference is related to the research on the optimal conversion of deep spiking neural networks. Aiming at the challenge of reasoning and high energy consumption brought about by deep neural network models represented by large models, the application of spiking neural networks on neuromorphic chips brings the possibility of low-energy edge applications. Dr. Ding shared his team's mid-draft paper in IJCAI 2021 and some follow-up explorations, which discussed how to obtain a spiking neural network with performance not inferior to the original network under the principle of optimal conversion of the deep artificial neural network, so as to achieve low-energy inference.
Wang Di
Wang Di is a second-year doctoral student at the School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, and his co-supervisors are Professor Fan Xin and Professor Liu Risheng. His main research interests include low-level visual analysis, multimodal image fusion and perception. The research results have been published in international/domestic journals and conferences such as IJCAI/Information Fusion/ICME/ICRA/JCST/"Journal of Software". One of the research results on multimodal image registration and fusion was included in IJCAI 2022 as an oral presentation.
The talk shared by Wang Di at this conference is related to multimodal image fusion. Aiming at the problem that existing multimodal image fusion methods are difficult to deal with the spatial deformation of unaligned images, resulting in edge ghosting of fused images, an unsupervised cross-modal "registration-fusion" joint method for infrared and visible light image fusion is proposed. At the same time, the future research trend in this field is briefly discussed.
Tu Wenxuan
Tu Wenxuan, Ph.D student in the School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, supervised by Professor Cai Zhiping/Professor Liu Xinwang. The main directions include clustering analysis, charting machine learning, semantic segmentation, etc., published multiple papers at IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-Nnls, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, MM, ICML, Neurips, etc., and served as IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-NNLS, and IEEE T-NNLS, International artificial intelligence journals such as ACM Tomm and the reviewers of international artificial intelligence conferences such as ACM MM, CVPR, AAAI, Neurips, etc.
The Talk shared by Tu Wenxuan at this conference is related to the depth map clustering algorithm. In view of the fact that traditional graph structure enhancement (randomly deleting or adding edges) may destroy the important structural information of the original graph and increase the risk of information redundancy in the deep graph clustering algorithm, this paper proposes a deep graph clustering algorithm AGC-DRR based on the double redundancy reduction strategy, gives some explorations of their team, and proves the feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm through a large number of experimental results.
"Young Scholars" as the core of the top AI academic exchange platform
After the conference report on the morning of the first day, the conference entered the author’s report session. 54 authors were divided into 18 groups, showing their latest research results and progress; in order to reflect the characteristics of “young scholars as the core”, the conference also set up “Tomorrow’s Star: Face-to-face Forum for Student Authors” and “Leading the Future: Artificial Intelligence Elite Scholars Forum” on the second and third days respectively. From the perspective of student authors and academic leaders, the issues that students care about were discussed and answered .
In addition to academic exchanges, the conference also set up a plenary dinner and YES! Wonderful events such as lawn concerts provided young scholars with a relaxed and pleasant social platform. These activities not only allowed the scholars to get acquainted with colleagues from all over the country, but also deepened the exchange and cooperation between each other. Through interaction and sharing, the young scholars have established a profound friendship and cooperative relationship, laying a solid foundation for future research cooperation.
On the second day of the "Rising Stars: Face-to-face Student Authors" forum, student authors became the protagonists of sharing. Six student authors including Zhang Yunhao from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ning Qian from Xidian University, Wang Di from Dalian University of Technology, Wang Yiming from Jilin University, Yan Liqi from West Lake University, and Tu Wenxuan from National University of Defense Technology shared the stories behind their papers and answered relevant questions raised by the students present. This kind of face-to-face communication and sharing has greatly stimulated the students' thinking and innovation potential.
At the same time, the conference also attracted academic leaders from more than 50 universities to participate. These academic leaders have achieved important research results in their respective research fields. Their participation has further enriched the academic content of the conference and provided participants with a broader academic vision and cooperation opportunities.
The "Intelligent Leading the Future: Artificial Intelligence Elite Scholars Forum" is also a highlight of this conference. The forum invited Professor Zhang Chengqi from the University of Technology Sydney as the moderator, and the guests included Li Bo from the University of Illinois, Yan Chi from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Huang Hong from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhang Lefei from Wuhan University, and Nie Liqiang from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). They are authorities in this field and have profound insight into the future development of artificial intelligence.
From the very beginning, the host, Professor Zhang Chengqi, explained the special features of this forum "no make-up, no agenda, and no notice". He directly handed over the issues discussed in the forum to the teachers and students participating in the forum, and discussed the concerns of the participants by raising their hands on the spot. From the awareness of AI to the end of the big model, from how to cooperate with the industry to discover the needs to the topic selection and writing of the project application, from how to choose the direction and theme of the doctoral thesis to the career development plan after graduation, from the cultivation of students to how to cultivate the ability to resist stress, these issues not only cover various fields, but also reflect the participants' concern and thinking about their own future . Through in-depth exchanges with these scholars, young scholars not only broadened their horizons, but also benefited from their inspiration and found new directions for their own research and development.
Leading the Future with Wisdom: Artificial Intelligence Elite Scholars Forum
As a high-end academic conference mainly for young students, IJCAI YES provides an excellent platform for young scholars who are active in the forefront of artificial intelligence research to showcase their talents and exchange ideas. During this period, these young scholars can communicate and learn face-to-face with top and experienced scholars in the world, share the latest and most cutting-edge technologies, and jointly discuss new opportunities and challenges in the development of artificial intelligence.
IJCAI YES: Continue to pay attention to the future development of young scholars
From January 7th to 15th, 2021, the IJCAI 2020 conference, which was postponed due to the epidemic, was held online. At the same time, the voting for the host city of IJCAI 2024 was held, and finally the right to host IJCAI 2024 fell to Shanghai. In order to build a complete artificial intelligence industry-university-research ecological environment for IJCAI 2024, the IJCAI Board of Directors decided to establish the IJCAI China Office in Shanghai for the first time, and to carry out strategic cooperation with the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) from 2021 to 2023, and IJCAI YES was born as an important part of the strategic cooperation.
Today, IJCAI YES has not only perfectly achieved the goal of "preheating", laid a solid foundation for the smooth holding of IJCAI 2024, but also built the most influential academic exchange platform for young scholars. At the exchange dinner, many academic leaders expressed the hope that after IJCAI 2024, the IJCAI YES conference will continue to be held to provide young scholars with a future to look forward to and look forward to.
During the current WAIC conference, the IJCAI-SAIA China Joint Office will also hold the "Large Model and Technology Singularity: Humanities and Technology Face-to-face Summit Forum" on July 7th together with East China Normal University, the organizer of IJCAI YES 2023. This forum will invite 10 leading figures from the fields of artificial intelligence, humanities and social sciences, and the industry to discuss technological progress and guide technological development from the perspective of technology and humanities, with a view to building a credible future of human-computer symbiosis with boundaries, privacy, morality, and order .
Although the conference has closed, the exchanges and cooperation among young scholars will not stop. By providing rich artificial intelligence expert resources, IJCAI YES provides young students with more learning and communication opportunities, and promotes cooperation between different teams. On the one hand, it helps young scholars better understand the cutting-edge technology in the field of artificial intelligence. On the other hand, it also excavates and delivers more outstanding talents for the future development of artificial intelligence . This talent training goal has always been adhered to by IJCAI YES, which has injected new vitality into the continuous progress and development of the field of artificial intelligence.
Undoubtedly, young scholars are the protagonists of IJCAI YES, and their enthusiasm, creativity and hard work make people have confidence in the future of artificial intelligence. With their research and passion, they have become the backbone of the field of artificial intelligence, promoting the progress of science and technology and the development of society. This conference is not only a stage for them to show themselves, but also a starting point for them to set sail, starting their journey to a bright future in the field of artificial intelligence.
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