Yong Rui, senior vice president of Lenovo Group and a member of the Lenovo Executive Committee (LEC), has over 18 years of experience at Microsoft, where he served as the executive vice president of Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Rui Yong is a leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence, excelling in academia, industry, and research. He holds over 100 patents and has led more than 20 major research and development projects. He is also the chairman of two artificial intelligence startups. Dr. Rui Yong is a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, a fellow of the Chinese Computer Federation, and a fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, and SPIE. He has received numerous world-class awards, including the 2018 ACM Multimedia Technology Award and the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award.

Kun Zhou, Professor at the School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, ACM/IEEE Fellow. In 2002, he obtained a doctoral degree in engineering from Zhejiang University. In 2007, he was selected as a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, he was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is currently the director of the National Key Laboratory of Computer Aided Design and Graphic Systems at Zhejiang University. His research fields include computer graphics, computer vision, and virtual reality. He hosted the National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group Project and the National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project. He has won two second prizes of the the State Natural Science Award, Chen Jiageng Youth Science Award, Science Exploration Award, ACM SIGGRAPH Test of Time Award, MIT TR35 Award and other domestic and foreign awards.

Taku Komura is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong.  Before joining The University of Hong Kong in 2020, he worked at the University of Edinburgh (2006-2020), City University of Hong Kong (2002-2006) and RIKEN (2000-2002). He received his BSc, MSc and PhD in Information Science from University of Tokyo. His research has focused on data-driven character animation, physically-based animation, crowd simulation, 3D modelling, cloth animation, anatomy-based modelling and robotics. Recently, his main research interests have been on physically-based animation and the application of machine learning techniques for animation synthesis. He received the Royal Society Industry Fellowship (2014), the Google AR/VR Research Award (2017) and the SIGGRAPH Best Paper Award (2022).