Prof. Xiongfei Wang received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2017. He was a postdoc at the Institute of High Energy Physics (2017–2019), Young Research Fellows at Lanzhou University (2019–2023), and a Professor at Lanzhou University since 2023. His research focuses on high-energy physics experiments, he currently works mainly on baryon physics including Baryon spectroscopy and baryon-pair production and Matter-antimatter asymmetry in hyperon decay at BESIII experiment. He has published more than 50 research papers in Nature, RMP, PRL, JHEP and PRD.

Ruilin Zhu received his Ph.D. from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,China in 2014, and was a joint PhD student at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. Now he is the Professor of School of Physics and Technology in Nanjing Normal University. His research focuses on theoretical high-energy physics, including heavy quark flavor physics and Quantum Chromodynamics. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in journals including PRL, PRD, and JHEP. He currently serve as an editorial board member of Chinese Physics C and Symmetry. He is also selected in the list of World Top 2% Scientists from 2022 to 2026 issued by Stanford University and Elsevier.

Beijiang Liu’s prolonged efforts in experimental hadron physics made ground-breaking contributions to the physics of exotic hadrons. He led the first observation of the isoscalar 1⁻⁺ state η₁(1855), revealing a new category of strongly interacting matter and opening a frontier in exotic quantum-number spectroscopy. He developed the world's first GPU-based partial-wave analysis software, overcoming computational bottlenecks in hadron spectroscopy. He served as BESIII Physics Coordinator and Light Hadron convener. He has led National Key R&D and NSFC/CAS programs, and is an NSFC Excellent Young Scholar. He delivered plenary reviews at ICHEP, HADRON, and other premier international conferences.

Prof. Shu LI is presently a tenured fellow at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He obtained his bachelor and PhD degree from University of Science and Technology of China and pursued postdoctoral research at Duke University and CERN before joining TDLI/SJTU in 2017 as the first T.D. Lee Fellow. His research focuses on high-energy experimental particle physics, including Higgs&Electroweak physics and also new physics beyond the Standard Model utilizing the ATLAS high energy proton-proton collision data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and led several international research groups of LHC-ATLAS collaboration. He is also the Principal Investigator of future DarkSHINE experiment R&D, being the first accelerator-based fixed-target experiment initiative in China dedicated to dark photon search with high repetition rate electron beam from SHINE (Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility). He has been awarded several national and Shanghai municipal talent programs and been the leading Principal Investigators of NSFC international key research project and original exploration program, MOST national key research and development program sub-taskforce, and Shanghai pilot program for basic research.

Tianjun Li is a Professor at School of Physics, Henan Normal University. He obtained the Ph.D. degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Pennsylvania, a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research covers particle physics phenomenology, Grand Unified Theory, string phenomenology, and cosmology, etc.

Prof. Yanxi Zhang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Peking University. He obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2013 and pursued postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University, CNRS and CERN before joining Peking University in 2020. His research focuses on high-energy experimental particle physics on the LHCb experiment at CERN, including heavy-flavour CP violation, spectroscopy, and production mechanisms. He made key contributions to the first observation of the doubly charmed baryon and the discovery of CP violation in baryon decays. He previously served as convener of two LHCb physics working groups and currently serves on the LHCb Editorial Board.

Fu-Sheng Yu is a professor of theoretical particle physics at Lanzhou University, China. He got his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 2013, and joined Lanzhou University since then. His research primarily focuses on heavy flavor physics. He made significant contributions to the prediction on the discovery channel of double-charm baryon, and to the understandings of CP violation in charmed mesons and beauty baryons. His current interests include exploring baryon CP violation and developing novel theoretical approach to non-perturbative QCD.

LU Cai-Dian received B.S. and Ph.D degree at Peking University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He did Postdoctoral work at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Hamburg University and Hiroshima University; He is now a Professor of the Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS. He is also Associate Editor of “the European Physics Journal C”, Editorial Board Member for “Journal of Physics G”, “Symmetry”, and “Scientific Reports”, Associate Editor-in-Chief for “Chinese Physics C”. Research interest: Particle physics theory, especially Heavy flavor physics and CP violation; phenomenology of physics beyond standard model.

Luca Visinelli is an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Salerno and an INFN researcher. His work bridges particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, focusing on axions, dark matter, black holes, gravitational waves, and dark energy. He earned his PhD at the University of Utah and previously held appointments at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, INFN Frascati, the University of Amsterdam, and NORDITA. He coordinates the theory programme of FLASH and helped develop ASTRA, a radio search for axion signals. His distinctions include the Buchalter Cosmology Prize and an NSFC research grant for axion research.

Ignatios Antoniadis is Director of Research class 1 (Emeritus) at CNRS, France, and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool. He holds visiting positions at Chulalongkorn University and IAS Princeton. His research covers quantum field theory, particle physics phenomenology, quantum gravity, cosmology and string theory, with over 350 scientific articles.

I received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1986. I was a professor at Nagoya University from 2006 to 2024 and am currently a professor emeritus there. I served as Director of the Center for Theoretical Studies at the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute (KMI) (2012-2019) and Chair of the Division of Theoretical Studies at KMI (2019-2024). My research covers quantum field theory, elementary particles, string theory, and modified gravity theories. I have been a Highly Cited Researcher every year from 2014 to 2018. I rank 912th in Research.com's Best Physics Scientists 2026.

Dr. Wen-Xiu Ma is a Professor at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990. He was awarded the Shanghai Qi Ming Xing Fellowship in 1993 and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1994. Dr. Ma has held several distinguished international academic appointments, including University Distinguished Professor at Fudan University through the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, Overseas Chair Professor at South China University of Technology, and Extraordinary University Professor at both North-West University in South Africa and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ma's current research interests include solitons, integrable models, nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian systems, symbolic computations, and neural network algorithms. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics and the Journal of Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics (2020–2025). Dr. Ma has been recognized as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2015 through 2021 and has been included among the world's top 2% of scientists, according to the Stanford University-associated rankings, since 2019. In 2021, Research.com recognized him as a leading mathematics scientist. In 2018, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who in the United States. In recognition of his contributions to teaching and research, Dr. Ma has received the University of South Florida's Outstanding Faculty Award three times, in 2018, 2020, and 2022. He is also a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society in the United States.

Dr. Jiajun Wu is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012, and conducted postdoctoral research in the USA, Australia, and Germany. Since 2018, he has been a faculty member at UCAS. His research focuses on theoretical high-energy particle physics, specifically hadron physics by combining experimental data with lattice spectra, as well as neutrino-nucleon scattering and weak decays of baryons and mesons. Dr. Wu has published over 100 academic papers in top-tier journals such as PRL, CPL, JHEP, PRD, PLB, and CPC, with a total citation count exceeding 5,000. He has been selected for the National High-Level Young Talents Program.

Dr. Jaume de Haro is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. His primary research interests focus on theoretical cosmology, general relativity, and modified theories of gravity. He has authored numerous high-impact research articles on cosmic inflation, bouncing cosmological models, dark energy, General Relativity, and quantum cosmology, with a particular emphasis on Loop Quantum Cosmology. Dr. de Haro’s work aims to address fundamental questions in early-universe physics, gravitational dynamics, foundations of General Relativity and the non-singular evolution of the universe, bridging mathematical formulations with cosmological phenomenology.

Dr. Taishi Katsuragawa is an associate professor at the Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, in Wuhan, China. His research focuses on theoretical physics, particularly gravitation, particle cosmology, and astrophysics. Seeking to understand dark energy and dark matter, he investigates modified gravity as a framework for exploring physics beyond the standard cosmological model. His work covers early- and late-time cosmology, gravitational waves, compact objects, and particle phenomenology. He has organized the MOGRA (International Conference on Modified Gravity) series, which promotes advances in gravitational theory.

Antonino Marcianò is tenured full professor at the Department of Physics of Fudan University and member of INFN. He worked as a post-doc at Princeton University and Dartmouth College on models for cosmological inflation and CMBR physics, and at Aix-Marseille University on the Wilson-loop approach to quantum gravity. During his Ph.D. at Sapienza University he focused on the non-commutative geometry approach to quantum gravity and quantum group deformations of space-time symmetries. His research revolves on topological and out-of-equilibrium quantum field theories, including particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics, and analogue gravity applications to artificial intelligence, quantum computing and topological materials.

Chunbiao Li (Senior Member, IEEE; Professor, Doctoral Supervisor) received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in succession from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 2012 to 2013. He is currently a Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research interests are in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, including chaos regulation and nonlinear systems, memristive computing, and corresponding applications. He was a recipient of several national and provincial awards for his teaching and research, including the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and the second prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Award for Natural Sciences.

Xiaolin Huang is currently a Full Professor in Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Before that he has worked in KU Leuven a postdoctoral researcher and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He holds B.S. from Xi’an Jiaotong University and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University. His interests cover machine learning theory and optimization. He has published 20 papers in prominent journals like Journal of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. Besides, he has a survey for piecewise linear neural networks on Nature Reviews Methods Primers. He is now serving as an Editor for Machine Learning and (senior) Area Chair for ICLR/NeurIPS/ICML/CVPR etc.

Prof. Carlo Cattani is a distinguished researcher in Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Tuscia, Italy. His main research interests include wavelets , fractal geometry, fractional calculus, nonlinear dynamical systems, computational mathematics, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence with significant contributions to mathematical modeling and computational methods. He has authored more than 400 of scientific publications and several books, receiving international recognition for his research. He is serving  as Editor-in-Chief of Fractal and Fractional Journal (MDPI) and editorial board member of several international scientific journals. For his research achievements has been included in the Stanford-associated World's Top 2% Scientists ranking.

Juntao Fei is a Professor (Level II) at Hohai University, IAAM Life Fellow, IEEE Senior Member. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Akron, USA, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia and North Carolina State University. He has led 30+ projects, published 200+ SCI papers (25 ESI Highly Cited, 4 Hot Papers), holds 100+ patents and 5 monographs, and serves as Associate Editor for four SCI journals. He is an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher, a top 0.05% ScholarGPS scholar, and a top 2% Stanford scientist. His research covers neural networks, AI, mechatronics, and robotics.