Bangkok, Thailand, June 25-28, 2025- The four-day "2025 NAAI Academic Annual Conference" was successfully concluded at the Athena Select Hotel in Bangkok. The theme of this annual conference is "Innovation and Future of Artificial Intelligence", bringing together experts and scholars from top universities and research institutions around the world. Through eleven high-level keynote speeches and a grand award ceremony, the latest research achievements and development trends in the field of artificial intelligence were showcased.
Opening Ceremony: Professor Arieh Warshel (Nobel laureate) delivers the opening speech live broadcast
eleven keynote speeches: Focusing on cutting-edge AI fields
1.Professor Arieh Warshel (Nobel laureate): Breakthrough Applications of AI in Molecular Simulation
2.Professor Anders Lindquist (Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering): The Role of Mathematical Sciences in Innovation and Industrial Development
3. Professor Giovanni Corazza (University of Bologna): Network Creativity: How Humans Collaborate with AI to Create
4.Professor Fan Pingyi (Tsinghua University): How Information Theory Shapes the Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
5.Professor L. Jay Guo (University of Michigan): The Application Prospects of AI in Optical Science
6. Professor Wu Xiaojun (Jiangnan University): Deep Learning on Riemannian Manifolds: A New Paradigm for AI
7.Professor Anthony G. Cohn (University of Leeds): Innovative Applications of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in AI Systems
8. Professor Li Hui (Peking University): The "Newton's Three Theorems" for Ensuring Cyberspace Security and Their Challenges to AI Large Models
9. Professor Hamid Reza Karimi (Politecnico di Milano): AI driven fault diagnosis of rotating machinery: framework and future directions
10.Professor Janaka Ekanayake (University of Peradenia): Empowering a Sustainable Energy Future with AI: The Transformation of the Power System
11.Professor Li Jie of Shanghai Jiaotong University, report title: AI, Big Data, and Blockchain Empower Industrial Internet AI big data blockchain technology enables industrial Internet
Awards Ceremony: Moment of Honor
The award ceremony held on June 27th will bring the annual meeting to a climax, with Professor Li Shuoyan, one of the Honorary Directors of NAAI (IEEE life fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Emeritus Chair Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Distinguished Chair Professor of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Director of the Shuoyan Institute of Mathematics and Technology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), serving as the award guest to recognize outstanding contributions in the global AI field.
The highest honor award of NAAI in 2025- NAAI Academy Award
-Jack Dongarra (video speech)
- Major contributions: Winner of the Turing Award in 2021, founder of high-performance computing and numerical algorithms. His software libraries such as LINPACK and LAPACK have become the cornerstone of modern scientific computing. -The establishment of TOP500 supercomputer performance evaluation standards has a profound impact on the development of large-scale parallel computing in artificial intelligence.
-Arieh Warshel - Main contribution: - Pioneering multi-scale molecular simulation methods that combine quantum mechanics with classical mechanics, providing a theoretical framework for AI driven molecular dynamics simulations. -Its research achievements have accelerated the application of artificial intelligence technology in biomedicine and material design.
-Michael I. Jordan (video speech)
-Main contribution: A leading figure in machine learning theory research, who has made pioneering work in statistical learning, probability graph models, and distributed optimization algorithms. -Trained a large number of top scholars in the field of AI and promoted the interdisciplinary integration of machine learning with economics and biology.
-Ruzena Bajcsy - Main contributions: Pioneer in robot active perception, pioneer in medical image elastic matching, promoting interdisciplinary applications of AI and social impact.
NAAI Distinguished AI Scholar Award for 2025
44 scholars from 20 countries have won awards
1. D.P. Kothari VIT University, India 2. Danilo Pietro Pau STMicroelectronics, Italy 3. Demetri Terzopoulos UCLA, USA 4. Diane J. Litman University of Pittsburgh, USA 5. Dinesh C. VermaIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA 6 Elizabeth Shriberg Ellipsis Health， 7. Eric L. Miller Tufts University, 8. Eugene A. Feinberg Stony Brook University, 9. Ethem Alpayd ı n Boazi ç i University, 10. Farrokh Janabi Sharifi Ryerson University, Türkiye, 11. Fr é d é ric Dufaux University é Paris Saclay, Canada, 12. Gitta Kuty, France nik Technical University of Munich, Germany 13. Giuseppe Buja University of Padua, Italy 14. Habib Zaidi University of Geneva, Switzerland 15. Haruki Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 16. Hesham A. Rakha Virginia Tech, 17. Herv é Panetto University of Lorraine in the United States, 18. J. Joshua Yang University of Massachusetts Amherst in France, 19. Jack Xin University of California, Irvine in the United States, 20. James C. Bezdek University of Melbourne in the United States, 21. James Kwok Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Australia, 22. James Lam University of Hong Kong, 23. Jan S. Hesthaven É cole Polytechnique F é d é rale de Lausanne, EPFL in Hong Kong, China 24. Jan Peters Technical University of Darmstadt, Switzerland, 25. Janusz Kacprzyk, Germany Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 26. Jason Nieh Columbia University, United States 27. Jean Bernard Lasserre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 28. Jean Christophe Olivo Marin Pasteur Institute, France 29. Jean Gabriel Ganascia Sorbonne University, France 30. Jim Woodcock University of York, United Kingdom 31. Jo ã o Paulo PapaS ã o State University, Brazil 32. John K. Antonio University of Oklahoma Oklahoma, USA 33. Philip H. S. Torr, University of Oxford, UK 34 Tara Sainath Google Research， 35. Yixin Zhong, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, USA; 36. Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
The on-site award winners include: 37 Giovanni E. Corazza, University of Bologna, Italy 38. Huiyu Zhou, University of Leicester, UK 39. Laurence T. Yang, Zhengzhou University, China 40. Xiao Jun Wu, Jiangnan University, China 41. Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 42. Janaka Ekanayake, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 43. Hamid Reza Karimi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 44. Shuo Yen, Li Robert Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
NAAI AI Exploration Award for 2025: [NAAI AI Exploration Award]
This year, a total of 17 outstanding scholars from around the world have been awarded this honor Ion Stoica - University of California, Berkeley (USA, West Coast) 2 Elizer Upfal - Brown University (USA) 3 Amit Sahai - University of California, Los Angeles (USA, West Coast) 4 Anima Anandkumar - California Institute of Technology (USA, West Coast) 5 Nanning Zheng - Xi'an Jiaotong University (Asia) 6 Yi Ma - University of Hong Kong (Asia) 7 Cewu Lu - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Asia) 8 A. N. Rajagopalan - Indian University of Technology (Asia) 9 Ashish Ghosh - Indian Institute of Statistics (Asia) 10 Maja Pantic - Imperial College London (Europe) 11 Michael Bronstein - Oxford University (Europe) 12 Zoubin Ghahramani - Cambridge University (Europe) 13 Bernhard Sch ö lkopf - University of T ü bingen (Europe) 14 Gr é goire Gelenbe - King's College London (Europe)
On site award winners include:
Fan Pingyi (Tsinghua University)
Anthony G. Cohn (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, University of Leeds, UK)
Julia Hirschberg - Columbia University (USA) delivers a video acceptance speech
NAAI Exemplary Award
The conference specially established the AI Exemplary Award to recognize experts who have made significant contributions to the development of NAAI and the artificial intelligence industry
-Professor Li Hui (Peking University)
-Professor Zhou Huiyu (University of Leicester)
-Professor Anders Lindquist (Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering)