Topic:Spatio-Temporal AI: Fundamental Theories and Key Technologies for Bringing Artificial Intelligence into the Physical World
Speaker:Prof. Yu Zheng (Southwest Jiaotong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Abstract
Artificial intelligence has achieved breakthrough progress in the virtual world, yet successful cases in the physical world remain scarce. In the physical world, AI technology must first understand spatial constraints, physical laws, the behavior of living species and the rules of operation, and it faces challenges such as insufficient observation, incomplete theories, limited data and the difficulty of spatio-temporal understanding. This talk introduces the definition of spatio-temporal AI, the challenges it faces, solution approaches, its evolution, key technologies and representative cases, showing how a thorough understanding and full use of the characteristics of spatio-temporal data provide the fundamental theories and key technologies for bringing AI into the physical world.
Speaker Bio
Prof. Yu Zheng is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and Chair of KDD China. He is Vice President and Chief Data Scientist of JD Group, Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Southwest Jiaotong University, and Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He pioneered the field of urban computing; his papers have been cited more than 70,000 times, with an H-index of 119. He applied urban computing theory to Xiong'an New Area and developed the world's first smart city operating system; with the approval of the state, Xiong'an's intelligent hub was named the "Xiong'an Urban Computing Center." He has served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TIST and as Program Committee Chair of ICDE 2014 and CIKM 2016, and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at international conferences including AAAI 2019. He has led four national-level research projects, including projects under the National Key Research and Development Program of China. His honors include the SIGKDD Test of Time Award twice (the only recipient in Asia), the SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award four times (the only recipient worldwide), the First Prize of the CCF Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first), the Chinese Institute of Electronics Outstanding PhD Dissertation Advisor Award twice (2022 and 2024), and the Capital Labor Medal.
Time:Saturday, September 5, 2026, 16:00–17:30
Venue:Lecture Hall, 1st Floor, Zhengxin Building, Jilin University
