Committee
Conference Honorary General Chair
Prof. Witold Pedrycz
IEEE Fellow
University of Alberta, Canada
Brief biography:
Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence 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. In 2009 Dr. Pedrycz was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Witold Pedrycz has been a member of numerous program committees of IEEE conferences in the area of fuzzy sets and neurocomputing. In 2007 he received a prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, and a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing, kn
owledge discovery and data mining, fuzzy control, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks, relational computing, and Software Engineering. He has published numerous papers in this area. He is also an author of 15 research monographs covering various aspects of Computational Intelligence, data mining, and Software Engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is intensively involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer). He currently serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a member of a number of editorial boards of other international journals.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Wei Gong
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Brief biography:
Dr. Wei Gong is a Professor in the School of Computing Science and Technology at USTC, China. He has been one of the leading researchers in the cutting-edge battery-free IoTs and has pioneered the research on backscatter communications and networks. His works have led the world's efforts to develop general-purpose backscatter on several research fronts, including multi-stream, multi-hop, and multi-protocol backscatter. He has published over 100 papers in reputable journals and conferences and received several best paper awards, including ACM MobiCom, CoNEXT, MobiSys, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, etc. He received many international awards, including IEEE PerCom 2023 best paper candidate, IEEE Globecom 2020 best paper award, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2020 best paper award, and DCOSS 2011 best paper award. He also has served as the technical committee member of many prestigious conferences and symposiums, such as ACM HotMobile 2022, IEEE PerCom 2022, and IEEE MASS 2022.
Organizing Committee Chair
Prof. Chi Liu
Fellow of CIE, IET and BCS
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Brief biography:
Prof. Chi (Harold) Liu receives a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Imperial College, UK in 2010, and a B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2006.
He is currently a Full Professor, Vice Dean at the School of Computer Science and Technology, and Director of Beijing Key Lab of Intelligent Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Before moving to academia, he worked for IBM Research - China as a staff researcher and project manager from 2010 to 2013, worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany in 2010, and as a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA in 2009. His current research interests include the big data analytics, mobile computing, and machine learning. He received the IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award in 2012, ACM SigKDD'21 Best Paper Runner-up Award, ACM MobiCom'21 Best Community Paper Runner-up Award, and IEEE DataCom'16 Best Paper Award. He has published more than 100 prestigious conference and journal papers and owned 39 EU/UK/US/Germany/Spain/China patents. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Area Editor for KSII Trans. on Internet and Information Systems, the Symposium Chair for IEEE ICC 2020 on Next Generation Networking, and served as the (Lead) Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and IEEE Sensors Journal. He was the book editor for 12 books published by Taylor & Francis Group, USA and China Machine Press, China. He also has served as the general chair of IEEE SECON'13 workshop on IoT Networking and Control, IEEE WCNC'12 workshop on IoT Enabling Technologies, and ACM UbiComp'11 Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for IoT. He was a consultant to Asian Development Bank, Bain & Company, and KPMG, USA, and the peer reviewer for Qatar National Research Foundation, National Science Foundation, China, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology, China. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET, British Computer Society, and Royal Society of Arts.
Prof.Paulo Batista
University of Evora, Portugal
Brief biography:
Paulo Jorge dos Mártires Batista holds a Ph.D. in Documentation (University of Alcalá, Madrid-UAH), with the research entitled La serie documental "Expedientes de obras particulares" por el Municipio de Lisboa: Análisis de su sistema de gestión", an MS in Information Science and Documentation - Archival Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - FCSH-UNL), and an MA in Documentation (UAH). As part of his doctorate he also received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Bibliography and Documentation Retrospective in Humanities (UAH), and he also holds a postgraduate degree in Information
Local Organizing Chair
A.Prof. Xin Yan
Wuhan University of Technology, China
Brief biography:
A.Prof. Xin Yangraduated from Wuhan University of Technology, majoring in Information Engineering with a Doctor's degree in engineering In 2006. 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Research in Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (Visiting Scholar), 2009-present Associate Professor, Wuhan University of Technology. He is currently on the editorial board of the International Academic Journal. In 2015, he was awarded the "Optics Valley Talent Plan". In 2016, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Science and Technology Award (second class). He has published 53 high-level academic papers in academic journals/conferences at home and abroad, such as IEEE Network Magazine, Computer Networks, etc. He has obtained 10 national patents and applied for 1 U.S. patent.
Organizing Committee
Prof. Liu Xing, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Prof. Song Tingxin, Hubei University of Technology， China
Prof. Tianrui Li, (IEEE Senior Member) Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University China, China
Prof. Fenghua Huang, (IEEE Member) Vice Dean of College of Artificial Intelligence, Yango University, China
Prof. Bin Gu, (IEEE Member) Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Pro. Chanjuan Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China
Prof. Shengdong Du, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Prof. Yu-Dong Zhang,IEEE Senior Member, University of Leicester, UK
Assoc.Prof. Yonghua Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Assoc.Prof. Hanbing Yao, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Assoc.Prof. Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Ting Wang, (IEEE Senior Member) East China Normal University, China
Assistant Prof. Somya Goyal, Manipal University Jaipur, India
Assistant Prof. Md. Alimul Haque, Veer Kunwar Singh University, India
Dr. Jayapandian N, Christ University, Kengeri Campus, Bangalore, India
Senior engineer Zhongjie Lei, China Mobile Communications Group Company Hubei Ltd Business & Operation Support Center
International Technical Program Committee
Prof. Carson Leung, (IEEE Senior Member) University of Manitoba, Canada
Prof. Yu-Dong Zhang, (IEEE Senior Member) University of Leicester, UK
Prof. Nan Wang, (IEEE Member) California State University, Fresno, USA
Prof. Ali Kadhum Idrees, University of Babylon, Iraq
Prof. Muhammad Imran Aslam, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
Prof. Poonam Tanwar, Manav Rachna International University, India
Prof. A. Tamilarasi, Kongu Engineering College, India
Prof. Takanori Miyoshi, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Pingguo Huang, (IEEE Member) Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA
Assoc. Prof. Neeraj Kumar Misra, School of Electronics Engineering (SENSE), VIT-AP University, India
Assoc. Prof. Chutisant Kerdvibulvech, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand
Assistant Prof. Akharin Khunkitti, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Assistant Prof. Shabir Parah, Department of Electronics and Communication, University of Kashmir, India
Assistant Prof. Rushit Dave, Department of Computer Information Science, Minnesota State University, USA
Assistant Prof. Ankan Bhattacharya, Mallabhum Institute of Technology, India
Dr. Sifatul Mostafi, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Dr. Naveed Ahmed Azam, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr. Abhilash Pati, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India