Prof. Dr.  Derek F. Wong

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.

Research Interests: large language models (LLMs); multilingual and low-resource machine translation; machine learning for NLP.

Prof. Dr.  Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Universidade da Coruña, CITIC, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación y Tecnologías de la Información, A Coruña, Spain.

Research Interests: computational linguistics; natural language processing (NLP); syntactic and semantic parsing; LLMs for creative writing.

Prof. Dr.  Rui Xia

School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China.

Research Interests: sentiment analysis; affective computing; financial NLP; large language models (LLMs).

Prof. Dr.  Fei Xia

Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Research Interests: computational linguistics; morphological analysis; part-of-speech tagging; grammar extraction and grammar generation; information extraction.

Prof. Dr.  Jun Sun

School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore 188065, Singapore.

Research Interests: AI safety; formal methods; software engineering.

Prof.  Ruihong Huang

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

Research Interests: event-centric NLP; LLM evaluation; safety and morality of LLMs; discourse analysis; dialogue and pragmatics.

Prof.  Meishan Zhang

Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: natural language processing; computational linguistics; syntax parsing; sentiment analysis.

Prof.  Yufang Hou

• 1. Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Linz, Austria.
• 2. IBM Research Europe, Dublin, Ireland.

Research Interests: large language models (LLMs); human-centred NLP applications; computational argumentation; trustworthy NLP.

Dr.  Zheng Yuan

School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Research Interests: educational technology (EdTech); educational NLP; multilingual NLP; low-recourse NLP; transfer and multi-task learning; unsupervised and semi-supervised learning; explainable machine learning.

Dr.  Yulong Chen

Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Research Interests: text generation; LLM evaluation.

Dr.  Leyang Cui

School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China.

Research Interests: large language models; coding agents; agentic reinforcement learning.

Dr.  Xuefeng Bai

School of Computer Science of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Research Interests: large language models (LLMs); structured learning; fundamental NLP; real-world NLP applications.

Dr.  Ruizhe Li

Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Research Interests: multimodality LLMs; knowledge graphs; LLMs reasoning; explainable LLMs.

Dr.  Li Harry Zhang

College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.

Research Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; natural language processing; large language models (LLMs); planning; reasoning; agents; formal methods.

Dr.  Haofen Wang

College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: knowledge graphs; natural language processing; retrieval-augmented generation; knowledge-enhanced large language models; conversational user interface; intelligent content creation.