Keynote Speaker 1

Weimin Huang has been a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 2010. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in radio physics from Wuhan University in 1995, 1997, and 2001, respectively, and the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Memorial University, where he also completed postdoctoral research. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a design engineer at Rutter Inc. in St. John’s, Canada. His research interests include ocean remote sensing using high-frequency surface wave radar, X-band navigation radar, synthetic aperture radar, and GNSS reflectometry. He has published more than 350 papers. He served as Chair of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and Co-Chair of the 2024 IEEE OES Workshop on Current, Wave, and Turbulence Measurement. He is the editor of the book Ocean Remote Sensing Technologies: High Frequency, Marine and GNSS-Based Radar, and has served as Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensingand Regional Editor for IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an Executive Committee member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and an Associate Editor for journals including IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensingand IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. He has reviewed for over 130 international journals and served as a TPC member for conferences such as IEEE Radar Conference, IGARSS, and OCEANS. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2023–2025), he was a member and chair of the NSERC Electrical and Computer Engineering Evaluation Group. His awards include the 2017 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, the 2019 IEEE GRSS Letters Prize Paper Award, and the IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer Award.

Keynote Speaker 2

Sai-Kit Yeung is a Professor at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD), the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Department of Ocean Science (OCES) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and founded the Vision, Graphics and Computational Design (VGD) Group. During his time at SUTD, he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Prior to that, he had been a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prof. Yeung’s research interests include 3D vision and graphics, content generation, fabrication, novel computational techniques and integrative systems for marine-related problems. He has published extensively in premier computer vision and graphics venues, including numerous full oral papers in CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. His work has received best paper honorable mention awards at ICCP 2015 and 3DV 2016. Prof. Yeung has been actively serving as a senior committee member in major AI, computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics conferences. These include roles as a Senior Program Committee member for IJCAI 2021 and AAAI 2021 and 2022, an Area Chair for ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023, 2024, and 2025, NeurIPS 2024, and ICML 2025, as well as a Lead Area Chair for CVPR 2026. He also serves as an Associate Editor (Robot Learning) for ICRA 2024, 2025, and 2026. He was Course Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 and regularly contributes as a Technical Papers Committee member for Eurographics, SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH Asia. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).

Keynote Speaker 3

Fausto Pedro García Márquez is a Full Professor at Universidad de CastillaLa Mancha (UCLM), Spain (accredited in 2013), and holds honorary appointments as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute, Research Fellow at INTI International University & Colleges (Malaysia), and Visiting Professor at Shenyang University of Technology (China). He previously served as a Senior Manager at Accenture (2013–2014). He earned a European PhD with maximum distinction, along with BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Business Administration, and MSc degrees in Transport and Labor Risks. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published 294 journal papers (95% SCI-indexed, 50% JCR-listed), including award-winning articles in Applied Energy(Best Paper 2020) and Renewable Energy(Best Paper 2014). He has also authored or edited 62 books, filed 6 patents, and contributed to 118 conference papers and 121 international book chapters. He serves as editor for 9 international journals and committee member for over 40 international conferences. As Director of the Ingenium Research Group , he leads an international team focused on maintenance engineering, renewable energy systems, and data analytics. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2020–2023), he ranks 7th globally in maintenance engineering and 1st in wind turbine maintenance research. He has led numerous competitive projects, including 7 European programs (e.g., H2020-ENDURUNS, €8.8M) and multiple national initiatives, alongside more than 150 industry contracts. His awards include the Research.com Engineering and Technology Leader Award (2024) and the International Business Ideas Competition First Prize (2017).

Keynote Speaker 4

Chunru Wan received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer studies from Loughborough University, UK, in 1996. He has held academic and research positions as a visiting scholar at Loughborough University, a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Principal Scientist at DSO National Laboratories, Singapore. He is currently affiliated with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). With extensive experience in research, development, and teaching, Prof. Wan possesses deep expertise in underwater systems, spanning sensors, sonar signal processing (detection, estimation, tracking, and classification), ocean modeling, and related applications. His research covers signal processing, underwater acoustics (propagation and reverberation), ocean circulation modeling, underwater communication, and parallel computing. He has published over 120 refereed papers, in addition to substantial contributions to defense-related projects that remain unpublished.

Pleanary Speaker 1

Yukihiro Kida has been a researcher at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) since 2013, focusing on advanced underwater acoustic communication systems. His research covers sparse adaptive equalization, adaptive/passive time-reversal processing, and MIMO techniques for stationary and mobile platforms including AUVs, ASVs, and HOVs. He has led multiple fullscale sea trials achieving high-speed data transmission exceeding tens of kbps over distances greater than 10 km, and contributed to integrated acoustic communication and positioning systems. His work bridges theoretical signal processing with practical implementation for deep-sea and mobile acoustic networks. He received the Dr.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees from Kyoto University. Since 2023, he has served as a Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University, supervising graduate research in mobile underwater communications. An active member of the Marine Acoustical Society of Japan, he participates in editorial and technical committees. In 2025, he was appointed External Expert Committee Member at the University of Tsukuba for shallow-water robot ultrasonic positioning systems. His awards include the Acoustical Society of Japan Paper Award (2025), JAMSTEC Nakanishi Award (2018, 2019), Young Researcher Award at the Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics (2018), and JAMSTEC R&D Achievement Award (2021).

Pleanary Speaker 2

Jianxiao Zou is a professor and PhD supervisor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He serves as a member of the Academic Committee of the Zhiyuan National Key Laboratory and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Autonomous Perception and Control of Intelligent Equipment. His long-term research focuses on smart energy and power electronics, intelligent information processing and control, and intelligent equipment systems. He has led multiple national projects including the National Key R&D Program, 863 Program, and National Natural Science Foundation of China projects. His awards include the First Prize of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and Second Prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Awards from both the China Institute of Electronics and Chinese Association of Automation. He holds over 120 invention patents and has published more than 80 papers in leading IEEE Transactions journals. Recognized in the "World's Top 2% Scientists" list, he has been honored through Sichuan Province's High-Level Talent Special Support Program and as a Shenzhen Government Special Allowance Exp.

Special Talk Speaker 1

Roee Diamant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Technologies at the University of Haifa, where he heads the Acoustic and Navigation Laboratory (ANL). He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia in 2013, and the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2001 to 2009, he worked at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel, as a project manager and systems engineer, leading the development of a commercial underwater modem with networking capabilities. He was a visiting professor at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2015 and 2016. He received the Israel Excellent Worker First Place Award from the Israeli Presidential Institute in 2009, and the NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2010. Prof. Diamant has been honored with three Best Paper awards and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. He coordinated the EU H2020 project SYMBIOSIS and holds an EU ERA-Chair appointment at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests include underwater acoustic communication, localization and navigation, object detection and classification, and sonar signal processing.

Special Talk Speaker 2

Qiao Gang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China, in 1996, 1999, and 2004, respectively. Since 1999, he has been working at HEU, where he is presently a Professor and the Dean of the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, HEU. He has already published more than 80 papers and owned seven national invention patents. His current research interests include underwater communication and networks, detection and positioning of underwater targets, and sonar designed for small carriers. Dr. Qiao is a member of the Acoustical Society of China and the Youth Federation of Heilongjiang Province and the Vice Chair of the Robotics Society of Heilongjiang Province. He won the National Award for outstanding scientific and technological workers and the Science and Technology Award for young talents in Heilongjiang Province.