Dr. William CHO
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
FHKIMLS, FHKSMDS, Chartered Scientist (UK), FIBMS (UK)

Dr William Cho primarily focused on cancer studies with the aim of identifying biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, treatment prediction, and prognosis. As a seasoned researcher, Dr Cho has contributed over 700 SCI papers, including Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Molecular Cancer, Advanced Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Advances, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Military Medical Research, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Clinical Cancer Research, Theranostics and Seminars in Cancer Biology, among others. These publications cover a wide range of topics including cancer biomarkers, non-coding RNAs, extracellular vesicles, drug repurposing and Chinese medicine. Additionally, Dr Cho has crafted over three dozen books, including "MicroRNAs in Cancer Translational Research", "An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research", "Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine", "Drug Repurposing in Cancer Therapy: Approaches and Applications", “Resistance to Anti-CD20 Antibodies and Approaches for Their Reversal”, and “Biochemical and Molecular Pharmacology in Drug Discovery” to name a few. Dr. Cho's publications have garnered over 38,000 citations, reflecting his significant global influence. He has been ranked among the world's top 2% most influential scientists annually since 2017. His consistent impact is evidenced by his recognition as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2023 and 2024 by Clarivate.

Prof. De-Shuang Huang

Ningbo lnstitute of Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology

Foreign Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering，IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow & AAIA Fellow

De-Shuang Huang is a Professor/Director in Ningbo Key Laboratory of Multi-Omics & Multimodal Biomedical Data Mining and Computing, Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. He is currently Foreign Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering, the Fellow of the IEEE (IEEE Fellow), the Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR Fellow), the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), and associated editors of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, etc. He founded the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) and the International Conference on Applied Intelligence (ICAI) in 2005 and 2023, respectively. He also served as the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2015) General Chair, July12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland, the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (IEEE-CIBCBC) Program Committee Chair, May 21-24, 2014, Honolulu, USA. He has published over 480 papers in international journals, international conferences proceedings, and book chapters. Particularly, he has published over 260 SCI indexed papers. His Google Scholar citation number is over 25815 times and H index 84. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics.