General Chair

Witold Pedrycz
Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada;
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Research field: Computational intelligence; Granular computing; Machine learning.

 

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. Professor Pedrycz serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).

 

Yudong Zhang
Professor, IEEE Senior Member, Southeast University, China.

Research field: Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks; Graph convolutional networks; Attention networks; Explainable AI; Biomedical image analysis; Bio-inspired computing; Pattern recognition; Transfer learning; Medical sensor.

 

Prof. Yudong Zhang serves as a Professor at Southeast University, China. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is included in World's Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University from 2020 to 2022. He won Information Fusion 2022 Best Paper Award, etc. His three papers are included in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in the journals: Ann Oncol, JACC, JAMA Psychiatry, IJIM, Inf Fus, IEEE TFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE IoTJ, Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE SJ, ACM TKDD, ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE JTEHM, ACM TMIS, etc. There are more than 60 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications. His citation reached 24192 in Google Scholar (h-index 86). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and academic grants from NIH, Royal Society, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Hope, British Council, Fight for Sight, and NSFC. He has given over 120 invited talks at international conferences, universities, and companies. He has served as (Co-)Chair for more than 60 international conferences and workshops (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). His research outputs have been reported by more than 50 news press, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Physics World, UK Today News, EurekAlert! Science News, India Times, Association of Optometrists (AOP) news, Medical Xpress, etc.

 

Shunli Wang
Professor, IET Fellow, IEEE Member, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China.

Research field: Modeling and state estimation for energy storage systems; New energy measurement and control; Optimization strategy; Energy management; Battery system modelling.

 

Wang Shunli, professor, doctoral supervisor, vice president of the Smart Energy Storage Research Institute, academic dean of the School of Electric Power of Inner Mongolia University of Technology, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, IET Fellow, IEEE Member, academic leader of the China Electrical Safety and Quality Testing Center, one of the first academic and technical leaders of China Science and Technology City, and one of the top 2% scientists in the world. He mainly focuses on the major strategic needs of the new energy and energy storage system industry, relying on the Academician Expert Workstation of Large-Scale Energy Storage Technology, the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Large-Scale Energy Storage Technology, and the Smart Energy Storage Research Institute to focus on the research of green and low-carbon energy storage for smart grids. Professor Wang has published 258 SCI core library retrieval articles, 173 articles in JCR Q1 and TOP journals, 34 highly cited/hot articles, 52 authorized invention patents/standards/software copyrights, 7 books published in internationally renowned publishers such as Elsevier and IET, and won 7 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including 2 international gold awards. He has served as the chairman of international conferences 27 times, 4 editors of international journals, and won 13 scientific and technological awards such as the Gold Award at the 48th Geneva Invention Exhibition. He is also a member of the New Energy and Energy Storage System Control Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a member of the System Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a member of the System Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a senior member of the Chinese Automation Society, and a member of the China Power Supply Society.

 

 

Co-Chair

Jingsha He
Professor, Beijing University of Technology, China.

Research field: Computer networks; Information safety; 3D printing; Big data and cloud computing security; Digital forensics.

 

Graduated from University of Maryland, he has worked in IBM Corp., MCI Communications Corp., GRIC Communications, Inc., etc. in America, and got 15 American patents for invention. In 2003, he was introduced to Beijing University of Technology. At present, he has published 261 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and got 58 Chinese patents for invention, presided over more than 30 projects as well, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, 863 project, etc.

 

Chien-Ming Chen
Associate Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China.

Research field: Network security; Blockchain; Big data; Artificial intelligence; Data mining.

 

Chien-Ming Chen is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2010. He has published about 150 SCI-indexed research articles in refereed journals (including ACM/IMS TDS, IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TITS, IEEE TC, IEEE TMM, IEEE SysJ, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE Networks, ACM TMIS, ACM OSR), 3 edited books, and 17 patents. He is the Associate Editor/Editor of various SCI journals, and Guest Editor for several SCI journals incuding IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCE, etc. He is the Senior Member of IEEE.

 

 

Organizing Committee Chair

Ronghua Li, Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, China

Qingsheng Feng, Vice Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, China

Fujian Ma, Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, China

 

International Scientific Committee Chair

Chun-Yi Su, Concordia University, Canada

Dragan Peraković, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Francesco Zirilli, Sapienza Universita Roma, Italy

Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Federal University of Piauí, Brazil

Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Sos Agaian, City University of New York, USA

Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

 

International Scientific Committee Member

Aarti Amod Agarkar, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India

A.B Feroz khan, Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College, India

Adrian David Cheok, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Ahmed Mateen Buttar, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

Ajay B. Gadicha, P. R. Pote Patil College of Engineering and Management, India

Alessio Faccia, University of Birmingham - Dubai Campus, UAE

Alex Mathews, Bethany College, USA

Aizaz Chaudhry, Carleton University, Canada

Azlan Mohd Zain, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Bimal K. Bose, The University of Tennessee, USA

Boddu Raja Sarath Kumar, Raja Sarath Kumar Boddu, Raghu Engineering College, India

Boris Andrievsky, Baltic State Technical University, Russia

Daehee Seo, Sangmyung University, South Korea

Danilo Avola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Debashis De, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, India

Deepak Kumar Panda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India

Dimitrios A. Karras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

Enaul Haq Shaik, Enaul Haq Shaik, Vasireddy Venkatadri International Technological University, India

Fanyi Meng, Tianjin University, China

Gajendra Sharma, Kathmandu University, Nepal

Galina Ilieva, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

George K. Adam, University of Thessaly, Greec

Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada

Gheorghe Grigoras, Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Ghezlane Halhoul Merabet, Smart Systems Laboratory, ENSIAS, Morocco

Hao Ying, Wayne State University, USA

Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Hamed Taherdoost, University Canada West, Canada

Hasmat Malik, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Heidari Arash, University of Trento, Italy

Hugo Morais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA

Jamshed Iqbal, University of Hull, UK

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Jawwad Nasar Chattha, University of Management and Technology, Pakistan

Jay Kumar Pandey, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, India

Jehad M. Hamamreh, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey

Jiliang Zhang, Northeastern University, China

Jingmin Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

Jing Zhang, Emory University, USA

Jixin Ma, University of Greenwich, UK

João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj, Dayananda Sagar University, India

June Tay, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

K. Thamizhmaran, Govt. College of Engineering, Bodinayakkanur, India

K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Kali Charan Rath, GIET University, India

Kaya Kuru, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Khayyam Salehi, Shahrekord University, Iran

Kuan Yew Wong, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Kumar Rahul, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, India

Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France

Li Cheng, University of Alberta, Canada

Lin Wang, Dalian Jiaotong University, China

Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Lorna Uden, The University of Staffordshire, UK

Lounis Adouane, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

Luis Martínez López, University of Jaén, Spain

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

M. A. Jabbar, Vardhaman College of Engineering, India

Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia

Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy

Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Gunma University, Japan

Md. Shamsul Arefin, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Bangladesh

Mehdi Gheisari, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Mellah Hacene, Bouira University, Algeria

Michael Agyemang Adarkwah, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Michael Tribelsky, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Minwoo Jake Lee, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

Mohd. Faisal Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, India

Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, UK

Muhammad Adil, Texas Southern University, USA

Muhammad Attique Khan, HITEC University, Pakistan

Muhammad Usman, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Nebojša Bačanin-Džakula, Singidunum University, Serbia

Neil Gordon, University of Hull, UK

Nilgun Baydogan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Obradovic Zarema, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Omid Mahdi Ebadati E., Kharazmi University, Iran

P. M. Siva Raja, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

Pankaj Arora, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope, Ital

Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Prashan Premaratne, The University of Wollongong, Australia

Raffaele Di Gregorio, University in Ferrara, Italy

Rajdeep Chakraborty, Rajdeep Chakraborty, SAGE University Indore, India

Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA

Raul Campilho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Ravipudi Venkata Rao, S. V. National Institute of Technology, India

Riman Mandal, Galgotias University, India

Robert S Laramee, University of Nottingham, UK

Robert Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

S. Masoud Barakati, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

Samrat Ray, International Institute of Management Studies, India

Sathishkumar V E, Sunway University, Malaysia

Seppo Sirkemaa, University of Turku, Finlan

Seyed Mohammad Ayyoubzadeh, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Shashikant Patil, Atlas SkillTech University, India

Shabir Ahmad Parah, University of Kashmir, India

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Smain Femmam, UHA University, France

Sohaib Latif, Grand Asian University Sialkot, Pakistan

Sri Niwas Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India

Sunday Adeola Ajagbe, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria

Sudeep Tanwar, Nirma University, India

Thameur Dhieb, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Tokeer Ahmad, Jamia Millia Islamia, India

Umesh C. Pati, National Institute of Technology, India

Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

Venkatesan Chandrasekaran, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, India

Vinayak Ashok Bharadi, Finolex Academy of Management and Technology, India

Vishnu S. Pendyala, San Jose State University, USA

Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Wali Khan Mashwani, Kohat University of Science & Technology, Pakistan

Xiangjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Yilun Shang, Northumbria University, UK

Yousef Farhaoui, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco

Zaib Ullah, Università Telematica Giustino Fortunato, Italy

Zhaohui Cen, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE

Zhengming Gao, Jingchu University of Technology, China