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The deadline for paper submission to the  2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25) , Shenzhen, China, has been extended to July 6, 2025 (AoE).

The Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT) aims at providing a platform for information theorists in the Asia Pacific region to exchange frontier research ideas in information theory as well as the applications to emerging scientific fields, and promote cross-disciplinary researches between information theory and other research areas, such as signal processing, control and optimization, and machine learning.

This conference is featured with 3 tutorial speakers and 14 invited speakers in the topics of Advanced Coding Technology, Semantic Communication, and Cryptography and Information Theory.

Topic 1: Advanced Coding Technology

• Tutorials:

      Presenter: Huazi Zhang, Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 
      Title: Channel Coding beyond 5G

• Invited Talks:

      (1) Wai Ho MOW, Associate Dean of Engineering (Undergraduate Studies), Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
      (2) Xiaohu Tang, Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University 
      (3) Qin Huang, Professor, Beihang University 
      (4) Ling Liu, Associate Professor, Xidian University (Guangzhou)

Topic 2: Semantic Communication

• Tutorials:

      Presenter: Wenyi Zhang, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China 
      Title: Semantic Information Theory: Rate-Distortion Approaches

• Invited Talks:

      (1) Jun Chen, Professor, McMaster University 
      (2) Kai Niu, Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
      (3) Yongjune Kim, Associate Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology
      (4) Bo Bai, Director of Theory Lab, Chief Scientist of Information Theory, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
      (5) Dong Liu, Professor, The University of Science and Technology of China
      (6) Tao Guo, Associate Professor, Southeast University

Topic 3: Cryptography and Information Theory

• Tutorials:

      Presenter: Shun Watanabe, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 
      Title: Information-Theoretic Cryptography

• Invited Talks:

      (1) Amin Gohari, Vice-Chancellor Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
      (2) Mitsugu Iwamoto, Professor, University of Electro-Communications 
      (3) Vinod Prabhakaran, Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 
      (4) Guodong Shi, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney