Jacob Sherson holds a joint professorship at the Departments of Management, Physics, and Cognitive Science at Aarhus University. He is the Founder and Director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence and the game-based citizen science platform ScienceAtHome with more than 300,000 contributors.

In his interdisciplinary Center both human and algorithmic problem-solving is investigated through the lense of machine optimization, psychology, cognitive science and behavioral economics. Apart from natural and social science games, he is also investigating large-scale game-based assessment of both basic cognitive skills and 21^st century skills like creativity.

Additionally, Jacob is a scientific advisor to several education technology and AI companies and organizations, advisor to both Danish government and EU parliament on AI and quantum technologies, and has been a TedX speaker (+245k views). Among other accolades, he was the winner of 2020 Falling Walls in Science and Innovation Management, 2019 Bold Award on Boldest AI + Boldest Scientific Project, 2018 Grundfos Prize and 2017 Ministerial Research Communication Prize

Matthias Söllner is Full Professor and Chair of Information Systems and Systems Engineering, as well as a director of the interdisciplinary Research Center for Information Systems Design(ITeG) at the University of Kassel.

His research focuses on understanding and designing trusted and successful digital innovations in domains such as higher education, vocational training, as well as hybrid intelligence.

The research of Matthias has been published by journals such as Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), and Computers & Education.

A ranking of business researchers in the German-speaking area lists him in the top 100 in terms of research output (2020-2024) and in the top 10 of researchers under the age of 40 (lifetime research output). He furthermore serves as a Senior Editor for EJIS as well as Associate Editor for JIT, and has received awards for his research, teaching and community service, such as Honourable Mention Awards from ACM CHI 2020 and 2021, as well as the Early Career Award 2020 and the Innovation in Teaching Award 2022 from the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

Guoying Zhao (IEEE Fellow 2022) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2005. She is a full professor (tenured in 2017) with University of Oulu, and a PI with ELLIS Institute Finland. She is a member of Academia Europaea, a member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and ELLIS.

She has authored or co-authored more than 390 papers in journals and conferences with 39460+ citations in Google Scholar and h-index 95.

She was Academy Professor (2021-2026) and the recipient of 2024 IAPR Maria Petrou Prize. She has been associate Editor-in-Chief for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), was/is associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Image and Vision Computing and Frontiers in Psychology Journals.

She was general co-chair for CVIP2025 and ACII 2025, is program co-chair for FG2027, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), tutorial chair for ICPR 2024, panel chair for FG 2023, publicity chair of 22nd Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2023) and FG2018, and has served as (senior) area chairs for many conferences.

Her current research interests include computer vision, machine learning and affective computing. Her research has been reported by Finnish TV programs, newspapers and MIT Technology Review.