(Yicai) July 17 -- The World Artificial Intelligence Conference-Academic, an international academic exchange meeting held for the first time during this year's WAIC and chaired by Turing Award winner Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, has accepted 57 papers out of 282 valid submissions.

The WAICA will hold a kick-off meeting tomorrow morning in Shanghai and start the paper selection in the afternoon, the WAIC organizing committee told Yicai yesterday. Five to seven experts will decide the Best Paper Award and Student Paper Award on the same day.

Leveraging WAIC's deep academic accumulation over the past eight years, the WAICA is committed to building a borderless, open academic public platform for AI scholars worldwide. Academician Zheng Qinghua of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Academician E Weinan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences serve as chairs of the program committee.

The authors of the 57 papers come from 12 countries and regions, including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. US' Princeton University, UK's University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University were among the overseas institutions with accepted submissions.

The papers will be published by the internationally renowned academic publishing institution Springer Nature and indexed by major authoritative literature search databases CPCI, Scopus, EI Compendex, Google Scholar, and DBLP. They can be used to support degree applications, project applications, and professional title evaluations.

Beyond academic influence, the WAICA has also allied with various industry players. For example, leading tech companies, including Tencent Holdings, SenseTime, and Xiaohongshu, will recognize that the student authors of the accepted papers can enjoy bonus points in campus and internship recruitment equivalent to authors of Category A papers.

The WAICA will also hold workshops in space-based intelligence, multimodal agents, quantum computing, embodied intelligent spatial interaction, and mathematics-related directions during the four-day WAIC that opens today. Matured workshops may be developed into independent academic meetings in specialized areas in the future.

Editors: Dou Shicong, Martin Kadiev