Dr. Yutao Yue is an associate professor at the Artificial Intelligence Thrust and Intelligent Transportation Thrust of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Master and PhD degree from Purdue University. He has a dual background in academia and industry, as the team leader of Guangdong Province Introduced Innovation Scientific Research Team, and the founder of the Institute of Deep Perception Technology of JITRI. His research interests include multimodal embodied perception, LLM mechanism and knowledge enhancement, AI emotion psychology and consciousness, AI4Science&AI4Engineering, etc. He has been engaged in scientific research and technology industrialization for over 20 years. He has co-invented 354 granted Chinese patents, 18 USA patents, and 7 EU patents. He has published over 60 papers, advised 13 postdoc research fellows, and received multiple awards including Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award.