Dr. Chaoyu Gong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Information and Automation at Southeast University, China. He received both his B.E. degree in Energy and Power Engineering and his Ph.D. in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Southeast University. Prior to his current faculty position, Dr. Gong held research appointments as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, and served as a Senior Research Scientist at HPC AI Tech. His research focuses on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Evidence Theory, with specific applications in industrial fault diagnosis and deepfake detection. Dr. Gong has a prolific publication record in top-tier venues, including CVPR, KDD, NeurIPS, IEEE TKDE, and Information Fusion. Dr. Gong is deeply committed to academic service. He is currently a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS) and serves on the organizing committee for the BELIEF 2026 international conference.