28 Aug 2025
From 22 to 24 August 2025, 2025 the 8th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI 2025) was successfully held at the XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China. The conference was jointly sponsored by the School of AI and Advanced Computing at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and IEEE, with assistance from the Research Institute of Big Data Analytics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. It brought together nearly one hundred experts, scholars, engineers, and early-career researchers from leading universities, research institutions, and industry worldwide to exchange insights on the latest theories, technological breakthroughs, and application prospects in big data and artificial intelligence.
BDAI 2025 achieved outstanding academic outcomes, receiving 132 paper submissions from around the globe. Following a rigorous peer-review process, 78 papers were accepted, representing an acceptance rate of approximately 59%. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed in EI Compendex and Scopus, ensuring the high quality and academic impact of the conference proceedings.
Grand Opening – Addresses by Distinguished Guests
On the morning of 23 August 2025, 2025 the 8th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI 2025) commenced with a grand opening ceremony. Assistant Professor Zhen Hua of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University chaired the session.
The conference’s Advisory Chair, Professor Fei Ma of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and Conference Committee Chair, Professor Steven Guan of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, attended the ceremony and delivered welcome addresses. In his remarks, Professor Ma highlighted that the BDAI conference has evolved into a highly influential international platform for academic exchange in big data and artificial intelligence. He hoped the current edition would further foster interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of academia and industry, thereby driving technological innovation and industrial advancement.
Professor Guan emphasised that the convergence of artificial intelligence and big data is profoundly reshaping the global landscape. He noted that an AI-empowered future will spearhead societal transformation, with close collaboration between academia and industry playing a pivotal role in this evolution.
Frontier Insights – Keynote and Invited Speeches
At BDAI 2025, three distinguished scholars from home and abroad were invited to deliver keynote speeches, sharing cutting-edge research findings and engaging in in-depth academic discussions.
Professor Mengchu Zhou (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA; Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS, CAA, and NAI)
Speech Title: Advancing Knowledge Distillation: A Multi-disciplinary Approach
Professor Zhou introduced a Student-Centric Knowledge Distillation (SCD) methodology, enabling teacher networks to tailor the transfer of knowledge according to the actual needs of student networks.
Professor Yingxu Wang (University of Calgary, Canada & Chongqing University of Science and Technology; Director/Chief Scientist, Chongqing Institute of Intelligent Mathematics and Autonomous Intelligence; IEEE Fellow)
Speech Title: On the Emergence of Autonomous AI (AI*): From Empirical Data Engineering to Rigorous Intelligent Science
Professor Wang presented the theoretical foundations of contemporary Intelligent Science (IS), which are built upon the principles of Intelligent Mathematics (IM).
Professor Lingxiao Zhao (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
Speech Title: The Evolution of Advanced 3D Graphics: from Physically-based to AI-Based
Professor Zhao reviewed the development of 3D graphics technology, tracing its journey from pursuing physical realism to encountering technological bottlenecks.
Subsequently, four distinguished scholars—Professor Tao Lei, Vice Dean of the School of Electronic Information and Artificial Intelligence at Shaanxi University of Science and Technology; Professor Xiaoling Deng, Chair of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University; Professor Weihua Zhou of Zhejiang University; and Professor Pietro S. Oliveto of Southern University of Science and Technology—delivered invited speeches. Their speeches covered cutting-edge topics, including medical image segmentation, smart agriculture, neural network compression, and evolutionary computation, broadening academic perspectives and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and international collaboration.
Diverse Exchanges – Parallel Sessions and Poster Sessions
The three-day conference, in addition to three keynote speeches and four invited speeches, included three parallel sessions, one special session, four online sessions, and poster sessions. The topics spanned a wide range of cutting-edge areas, including big data models and algorithms, big data security and privacy, big data architecture and management, artificial intelligence applications, computing and communication technologies, and big data search and mining. This diverse array of sessions provided participants with extensive opportunities for academic exchange and created additional avenues for interdisciplinary and cross-industry collaboration.
Conclusion – Conference Summary and School Outlook
The successful convening of 2025 the 8th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI 2025) not only showcased the latest research achievements in the fields of artificial intelligence and big data but also provided a high-level platform for academic exchange among scholars, experts, and early-career researchers from around the world. Through keynote speeches, invited speeches, parallel sessions, and poster sessions, participants engaged deeply with cutting-edge topics, fostering interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration and innovation.
The successful conclusion of the conference highlighted the vitality and creativity of the academic community in AI and significant data research, further consolidating BDAI’s status as an important international platform for scholarly exchange. Leveraging the momentum of this conference, the School of AI and Advanced Computing at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University will continue to strengthen research innovation and international collaboration, enhance the level of academic exchange, and strive to build an increasingly open, cutting-edge, and internationally influential research platform, injecting new impetus into the future development of the school.
28 Aug 2025