Professor Thierry Blu was born in Orléans, France in 1964. He graduated (MSc) from l'École polytechnique (Paris, France) in 1986, the most renowned French "Grande École" with alumni like: H. Poincaré, A.L. Cauchy, C. Hermite, B. Mandelbrot etc... Then, in 1988, he graduated (MEng) from l'École Nationale Supérieure des Téléommunications (Paris, France) from which he also obtained a PhD in electrical engineering (1996). From 1988 to 1998, he worked at France Telecom R&D as a research engineer first in Hertzian wave propagation, then in signal processing and videotelephony subjects. He is still on (long) leave from the French administration, with the rank of "Ingénieur en Chef des Télécommunications". In 1998, Th. Blu joined the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, recently created by Prof. Michael Unser at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), where he became responsible for the mathematical aspects of image processing in connection with biomedical/biological data. Th. Blu left EPFL at the end of 2007 to join the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a Professor.

Dr. Xavier Bresson received his B.A. of Physics from University of Marseille and his Master of Electrical Engineering from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in Paris, France. He got his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2010, he joined the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. His current research works are focused on continuous convex relaxation techniques and unified geometric framework in image processing and machine learning. He has published 35 papers in international journals and conferences.

Professor Raymond Chan is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1985 and began his career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He came back to Hong Kong in 1986, first in The University of Hong Kong (1986-92) and then in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993) before joining his CUHK in 1993. Chan has published more than 90 journal papers and is in the ISI's List of Top 250 Highly-Cited Mathematicians in the world since 2004. He won a Leslie Fox Prize in 1989 at Cambridge in the United Kingdom; a Feng Kang Prize in 1997 in Beijing, China; and a Morningside Award in 1998 in Beijing, China. He has served on the editorial boards of more than 15 journals, including: Asian Journal of Mathematics (co-Chief Editor since 1997), SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (since 2007), and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (served from 2000 to 2008). He also presented over 90 invited conference talks in more than 20 countries and reviewed papers for more than 60 different international journals.

Prof. Tony F. Chan's scientific background is in Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering. He received his BS and MS degrees in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. He pursued postdoctoral research at Caltech as Research Fellow, and taught Computer Science at Yale University before joining the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as Professor of Mathematics in 1986. He was appointed Chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1997 and served as Dean of Physical Science from 2001 to 2006. He also holds honorary joint appointments with UCLA's BioEngineering Department and the Computer Science Department.
Prof. Chan assumed the presidency of HKUST on 1 September 2009. Prior to joining HKUST, Prof Chan was Assistant Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in charge of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, which is the largest directorate at NSF. In that position, he guided and managed research funding of about HK$10 billion a year in astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematical science, material science, and multidisciplinary activities.

Dr. Shingyu Leung is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his MPhil degree in Mathematics from HKUST in 2001 and his MA and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining HKUST, he worked as a post-doc researcher and an instructor at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). His research focuses on high frequency asymptotic solutions to wave phenomena and their related inverse problems, numerical methods for interfacial motions and image processing.

Professor Liqun Qi received his B.S. in Computational Mathematics at Tsinghua University in 1968. his M.S, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981 and 1984 respectively. Professor Qi has taught in Tsinghua University, China, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, University of New South Wales, Australia, and The City University of Hong Kong. He is now Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Qi has published more than 180 research papers in international journals. He established the superlinear and quadratic convergence theory of the generalized Newton method, and played a principal role in the development of reformulation methods in optimization. Professor Qi's research work has been cited by the researchers around the world. According to the authoritative citation database www.isihighlycited.com, he is one of the world's most highly cited 300 mathematicians during the period from 1981 to 1999. Professor Liqun Qi was elected as a foreign member of the Peterovskaya Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russia in 2003. He received the Hong Kong Polytechnic University President's Awards for Excellence Performance/Achievements, based upon Research and Scholarly Activities in 2004. Professor Qi is the editor or an associate editor of eight international journals. He has chaired more than ten international conferences and workshops held at Australia, Italy, Hong Kong and the Mainland China. In 2005, Professor Qi introduced the concept of eigenvalues for higher order tensors, which now has applications in medical engineering, statistical data analysis and solid mechanics.

Professor Michael Ng obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1990 and M.Phil. degree in 1992 at the University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D. degree in 1995 at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Research Fellow of Computer Sciences Laboratory at Australian National University (1995-1997), and an Assistant/Associate Professor (1997-2005) of the University of Hong Kong before joining Hong Kong Baptist University. Michael won the Honourable Mention of Householder Award IX, in 1996 at Switzerland, an excellent young researcher's presentation at Nanjing International Conference on Optimization and Numerical Algebra, 1999, and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong, 2001. Michael and his collaborators won the outstanding research paper on Artificial Intelligence in the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing. As an applied mathematician, Michael's main research areas include Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Operations Research and Scientific Computing. Michael has published and edited 5 books, published more than 160 journal papers. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Prof Tai Xue-Cheng is a member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bergen of Norway and also Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. In addition, he is also a member of Center of Mathematics for Application (CMA) at University of Oslo and Center of Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR)at Bergen. These are two of the national centers of excellence. His research interests include Numerical PDEs, optimization techniques, inverse problems, and image processing. He has done significant research work his research areas and published over 80 top quality international conference and journal papers. He is the winner of the 8th Feng Kang Prize for scientific computing. He served as organizing and program committee members for a number of international conferences and has been often invited for international conferences. He has served as referee and reviewers for many premier conferences and journals.

Professor Chi-Keung Tang received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Since 2000, he has been with the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he is currently a full professor. He is an adjunct researcher at the Visual Computing Group of Microsoft Research Asia. His research areas are computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. He is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and served on the program committees of ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, and ICPR. He served as an area chair for ACCV'06 (Hyderabad), ICCV'07 (Rio de Janeiro), and ICCV' 09(Kyoto), and as a technical papers committee member for the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia'08 (Singapore). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Professor Xu took his BS in 1982 and MS in 1985 at Department of Scientific Computation and Computer Applications, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Xu's research grants include NASA, NSF, CDC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Xu's honors and awards include the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow in 1996, The Eberly Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics at West Virginia University (2001-2003), Guest Professor on several occasions to different overseas universities, Fred Waldron Award for Excellence in Research in 1999 at North Dakota State University, Best Researcher Award of Science and Mathematics in 1998 at North Dakota State Univeristy, and Among One Hundred Outstanding Young Chinese Scientists, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Xu is the Managing Editor of Advances in Computational Mathematics, an Associate Editor of Journal of Integral Equations and Applications and Journal of System Sciences and Mathematics.

Dr. Zeng received his BSc degree at Peking University in 2000 and MSc degree at the Ecole Polytechnique in 2004. Awarded the scholarship BDI of CNRS, he obtained his PhD degree with highest honours at University of Paris XIII in 2007. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) as an Assistant Professor, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Robert Azencott at the ENS de Cachan, France. His current interests are Image Processing and Statistical Learning.