ICITE2026 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Hai Yang | 杨海教授
Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong | 香港科技大学
Professor Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of transportation research. His work has been extensively published in top-tier academic journals such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science, Operations Research, and PNAS, placing his academic influence among the global forefront in the transportation field. Professor Yang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the HKUST School of Engineering Distinguished Research Excellence Award (2025), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2021 Francis C. Turner Award, the 2020 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, and the 2011 State Natural Science Award presented by the State Council of China. He has been appointed as a "Changjiang Scholar" Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the flagship journal Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from 2013 to 2018. He currently holds the position of Honorary Editorial Board Member for the journal and serves on the Scientific Committee of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Additionally, Professor Yang is an Advisory Editor for Transportation Science and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of AI for Transportation.
Prof. Lixi Huang | 黄立锡教授
Deputy Head of Department of Mechanical EngineeringThe University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 香港大学
Lixi was educated at Beijing Institute of Aeronautics (now BUAA or Beihang Univ.) and University of Cambridge. His BEng and MPhil degrees from BUAA were in the field of aerospace engineering (jet propulsion), while the topic of his PhD study at Cambridge was theoretical acoustics and respiratory biomechanics. He spent 8 years each in Beijing and Cambridge before coming to Hong Kong in 1996. After completing his PhD work in 1991, he worked as a research associate at the Whittle Lab (of turbomachinery), then as a college research fellow at Peterhouse, both within the University of Cambridge. His work on the mechanism of human snoring helped his medical/surgical colleagues devise a successful laser surgery procedure in the early 1990s, and the related pursuit in fluid mechanics touched upon the fundamentals of fluid-structure energy transfer mechanisms. Before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2006, he taught at HK PolyU Mechanical Engineering and served as a leader for the teaching group of acoustics and vibration. In the last decade or so he has been working in industrial and environmental noise control with a special focus on the use of electromagnetic forces in acoustics. His research projects have been funded by the Hong Kong Government funding agencies (RGC, ITF), industry, and mainland sources (“973” projects, and Department of Science and Technology, Zhejiang Province, PRC).
His current research interests are (a) aerodynamics and acoustics with application to aeronautical and general engineering, (b) innovative broadband noise control with applications to environmental noise, and (c) flow induced vibration and interaction with sound.
He currently serves as a subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration, an associate editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and an editorial board member for Chinese Journal of Acoustics.
Prof. Chengzhong XU | 须成忠教授
IEEE FellowUniversity of Macau, Macau SAR, China | 澳门大学
Dr. Chengzhong Xu, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor of Computer Science, Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences, and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Macau (UM). Dr. Xu is a nationally recognized distinguished expert and recipient of the National Distinguished Expert, the NSFC Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar Award and the 2026 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award. He has served as the Chief Scientist of Key Project on Smart City of MOST, China and the principal investigator of the Key Project on Autonomous Driving of FDCT, Macau S.A.R.
Dr. Xu’s research focuses on parallel and distributed computing, with particular emphasis on resource management for performance, reliability, availability, energy efficiency, and security. His work spans servers and cloud datacenters, wireless embedded devices, and edge AI systems, with applications in smart cities and autonomous driving. He has authored two research monographs and more than 600 journal and conference papers, garnering over 28,000 citations and an H-index of 86. His work has been cited in 397 international patents (including 258 U.S. patents as of year 2025, per SciVal). His research has been recognized with Best Paper Awards or Nominations at top-tier conferences, including 2021 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2021), 2013 IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), the 2013 ACM High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), IEEE Cluster 2016, ICPP 2005, GPC 2018, UIC 2018, AIM 2019, IEEE Edge 2020, as well as a Test-of-Time Paper Award from Frontiers of Computer Science (2024). He also holds more than 200 patents or PCT patents and co-founded “Shenzhen Baidou Applied Technology”, a company specializing in location-based services and technologies.
An active contributor to the academic community, Dr. Xu serves or has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and Science China: Information Science. Since 2012, he has served as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of ZTE Communication. From 2015 to 2020, he chaired IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP).
Dr. Xu obtained his BSc (1986) and MSc (1989) from Nanjing University, and his PhD (1993) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.