Keynote Speakers
Prof.
Yiu-ming Cheung(IEEE Fellow)
Hong Kong Baptist University
Yiu-ming Cheung is currently a Chair Professor
(Artificial Intelligence) of the Department of
Computer Science, Dean of Institute for Research and
Continuing Education (IRACE), and Associate Director
of Institute of Computational and Theoretical
Studies in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He
received PhD degree from Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of
Hong Kong in 2000, and then joined the Department of
Computer Science at HKBU in 2001. He is an IEEE
Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and
British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. He is the
Awardee of RGC Senior Research Fellow with receiving
a fellowship grant of HK$7.8 million over a period
of 60 months. Since 2019, he has been ranked the
World’s Top 1% Most-cited Scientists in the field of
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing by
Stanford University for five consecutive years. He
was elected as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society in 2020, and
named a Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars
Program by the Ministry of Education of the People’s
Republic of China for the dedication and exceptional
achievements in his academic career. Also, he is the
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Emerging
Topics in Computational Intelligence.
His research interests include machine learning and
visual computing, as well as their applications in
data science, pattern recognition, multi-objective
optimization, and information security. He has
published over 250 articles in the high-quality
conferences and journals, including TPAMI, TNNLS,
TIFS, TIP, TMM, TKDE, TCYB, CVPR, IJCAI, AAAI, and
so on. His four co-authored papers have been
selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (i.e. listed in
Top 1% globally in the corresponding discipline).
Moreover, he has been granted one Chinese patent and
two US patents. Subsequently, the underlying
technique of his eye-gaze tracking patent has been
successfully applied to develop the first mobile app
for fatigue driving detection. It turns out that,
selected from 1000 new inventions and products of
700+ competition teams from 40 countries, he was
awarded two most prestigious prizes: (1) the Gold
Medal with Distinction (i.e. the highest grade in
Gold Medals) and (2) Swiss Automobile Club Prize, in
the 45th International Exhibition of Invention,
Geneva, Switzerland, on March 29-April 2, 2017, in
recognition of his innovative work. Also, he was the
Gold Award Winner of Hong Kong Innovative Invention
Award in the Seventh Hong Kong Innovative
Technologies Achievement Award 2017. In addition, he
won the Gold Medal with Congratulations of Jury
(i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) and the
Award of Excellence from Romania, respectively, at
the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of
Geneva 2018 with his invention “Lip-password: Double
Security System for Identity Authentication”. He was
the recipient of: (1) 2023 APNNS Outstanding
Achievement Award, (2) Best Research Award of
Department of Computer Science at HKBU in 2011 and
2021, respectively, (3) 2022-23 Faculty Research
Excellence Paper Award in HKBU, (4) Best in
Theoretical Paper Award in WI-IAT’2020, (5) Best
Paper Awards in SEAL’2017, ISICA’2017, ICNC-
FSKD’2014, and IEEE IWDVT’2005, respectively, and
(6) Best Student Paper Award in ISMIS’2018.
He is the Founding Chairman of IEEE (Hong Kong)
Computational Intelligence Chapter and the Chair of
Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics
(TCII) of IEEE Computer Society. He has served in
various capacities (e.g., Organizing Committee
Chair, Program Committee Chair, Program Committee
Area Chair, and Financial Chair) at several top-tier
international conferences, including IJCAI’2021,
ICPR’2020, ICDM’2017 & 2018, WCCI’2016, WI-IAT’2012,
ICDM’2006 & WI-IAT’2006, to name a few. He is an
Associate Editor of several prestigious journals,
including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE
Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational
Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and
Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural
Networks and Learning Systems (2014-2020), Pattern
Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Knowledge
and Information Systems (KAIS), and Neurocomputing,
as well as the Guest Editor in several international
journals. Currently, he is an Engineering Panel
member of Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, a
member of assessment panel of Enterprise Support
Scheme (ESS) under the Innovation and Technology
Fund (ITF), and a Fellow Evaluation Committee member
of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE
Computer Society, respectively.
Prof.
Cheng-Zhong XU (IEEE Fellow)
University of Macau, China
Dr. Cheng-Zhong Xu, IEEE Fellow, is the Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology and the Interim Director of Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, and a Chair Professor of Computer and Information Science. He was a professor of Wayne State University and the Director of Institute of Advanced Computing of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences before he joined UM in 2019. Dr. Xu is a Chief Scientist of Key Project on Smart City of MOST, China and a Principal Instigator of the Key Project on Autonomous Driving of FDCT, Macau SAR. Dr. Xu’s main research interests lie in parallel and distributed computing and cloud computing, in particular, with an emphasis on resource management for system’s performance, reliability, availability, power efficiency, and security, and in big data and data-driven intelligence applications in smart city and self-driving vehicles. The systems of particular interest include distributed systems and the Internet, servers and cloud datacenters, scalable parallel computers, and wireless embedded devices and mobile edge systems. He published two research monographs and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings; his papers received over 10K citations with an H-index of 57. He was a Best Paper Nominee or Awardee of the 2013 IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), the 2013 ACM High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), IEEE Cluster’2015, ICPP’2015, GPC’2018, UIC’2018, AIMS’2019. He also received more than 100 patents or PCT patents and spun off a business “Shenzhen Baidou Applied Technology” with dedication to location-based services and technologies. Dr. Xu received the most prestigious “President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching” of Wayne State University in 2002. He serves or served on a number of journal editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Science China: Information Science and ZTE Communication. Dr. Xu has been the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) from 2015 to 2020. He obtained BSc and MSc degrees from Nanjing University in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and a PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1993, all in Computer Science and Engineering.
Invited Speakers
Prof.
Chinthaka Premachandra
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Chinthaka Premachandra (Senior
Member, IEEE) was born in Sri Lanka. He received the
B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu,
Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D.
degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in
2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant
Professor with the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo
University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to
2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the
Department of Electronic Engineering, School of
Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, where he was an Associate Professor, from
2018 to 2022. In 2022, he was promoted to a
Professor with the Department of Electronic
Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is
currently the Manager of the Image Processing and
Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include
AI, UAV, image processing, audio processing,
intelligent transport systems (ITS), and mobile
robotics.
He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan;
RSJ, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the IEEE
SENSORS LETTERS Best Paper Award from the IEEE
Sensors Council in 2022 and the IEEE Japan Medal
from the IEEE Tokyo Section in 2022. He also
received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young
Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in
2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served as a
steering committee member and an editor for many
international conferences and journals. He is the
Founding Chair of the International Conference on
Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB), which is
technically co-sponsored by IEEE. He is currently
serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and
Automation Letters (R-AL) and IEICE Transactions on
Information and Systems.
Assoc.
Prof. Maizatul Akmar Ismail
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr. Maizatul Akmar Ismail is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. Her academic qualifications were obtained from Universiti Malaya (UM) for her Bachelor's and Ph.D. degree, and the University of Putra Malaysia for her master's. At present, she has more than twenty years of teaching experience since she started her career as a lecturer at the Universiti Malaya. Maizatul was involved in various research, leading to the publication of several academic papers in the areas of Information Systems specifically on Educational Technology, Recommender Systems, and Data Mining. She has been actively publishing more than 70 conference papers at renowned local and international conferences. A number of her works were also published in reputable international journals. Maizatul has participated in many competitions and exhibitions to promote her research works. She has been appointed as Competition Judges for several innovation competitions. To date, she has successfully supervised 10 Ph.D. and 23 Masters's students to completion. She hopes to extend her research beyond Information Systems in her quest to elevate the quality of teaching and learning.
Assoc.
Prof.Pengfei Chen
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Pengfei Chen is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Doctoral Supervisor, recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, and Yat-sen Scholar. He received the first Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of the Shaanxi Computer Society in 2020, and the only Best Paper at the IEEE ISSRE 2022 conference. The main directions are: cloud computing, operating systems, intelligent operations and maintenance (AIOps), software reliability, software defined networks, etc. In recent years, he has published over 80 papers in international conferences such as FSE, ICSE, ASE, WWW, ICPP, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE DSN, IEEE ISSRE, and journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TSC, IEEE TCC, etc. He has also served as a reviewer for multiple international journals and conferences. He undertaken over 20 projects, including national key research and development projects, big data center projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China general and youth projects, as well as science and technology projects in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City. In addition, he has also carried out school enterprise cooperation projects with companies such as Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, and WeChat, and have implemented some of the research results in these companies.