Speakers
Prof. Yonghui Li, IEEE Fellow, ARC Future Fellow
The University of Sydney, Australia
Yonghui Li is now a Professor and Director of the Wireless Engineering Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008 and the ARC Future Fellowship in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications, with a particular focus on IoT, machine-to-machine communications, MIMO, millimeter wave communications, channel coding techniques, game theory, machine learning, and signal processing. Professor Li was an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and guest editor for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, and IEEE Communications Magazine. He received several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. He has published one book, more than 300 papers in premier IEEE journals, and more than 150 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 20000 times.
Prof. Ying Tan, IEEE Senior Member
Peking University, China
Ying Tan is a full professor and PhD advisor at Peking University. He is the inventor of the Fireworks Algorithm (FWA). He received his BEng, MS from Xidian University, and PhD from Southeast University, in 1985, 1988, and 1997, respectively. He worked as a professor at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan, in 2018, at Columbia University as a senior research fellow in 2017, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999 and 2004-2005 as a research fellow, etc. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IASEI Transactions on Swarm Intelligence, Research Reports on Computer Science (RRCS) and International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (IJCIPR), the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System (NNLS), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine, Neural Networks, Machine Learning with Applications, etc. He also served as an Editor of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) for 50+ volumes, and Guest Editor of several referred Journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Information Science, Neurocomputing, Natural Computing, Swarm and Evolutionary Optimization, etc. He has been the founder general chair of the ICSI International Conference series since 2010 and the DMBD conference series since 2016. He is the president of the International Association of Swarm and Evolutionary Intelligence (IASEI). He won the 2nd-Class Natural Science Award of China in 2009 and 2nd-Class Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China in 2019 and many best paper awards. His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, deep neural networks, machine learning and data mining for information security and financial prediction, etc. He has published more than 380+ papers in refereed journals and conferences in these areas, and authored/co-authored 15 books, including “Fireworks Algorithm” by Springer in 2015, and “GPU based Parallel Imple.
Prof. SIAU Keng Leng
City University of Hong Kong, China
Professor Siau is the Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong (June 2021-present). He is also a Chair Professor (Affiliate) of the School of Data Science and Affiliate Professor of the CityU Academy of Innovation, City University of Hong Kong. Professor Siau has more than 300 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 22,000. His h-index and i10-index, according to Google Scholar, are 75 and 192, respectively. Professor Siau is consistently ranked as one of the top information systems researchers globally based on his h-index and productivity rate. In 2006, he was ranked as one of the top ten e-commerce researchers globally (Arithmetic Rank of 7, Geometric Rank of 3). In 2006, the citation count for his paper "Building Customer Trust in Mobile Commerce" was ranked in the top 1% in the field, as reported by Essential Science Indicators. He is also on 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Stanford University lists of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world (he is ranked in the top 1%) and ranked as one of the top computer scientists in the U.S., China, and the world.
Research Interests: Digital Transformation and Digital Society, Business Analytics and Data Science, Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smart City, Smart Health, and FinTech, AI, ChatGPT, Robotics, and Machine Learning: Future of Work and Future of Humanity, Human-Centered AI, Human-AI Collaboration, Web3, Metaverse
Prof. Ruguo Fan, IEEE Senior Member
Wuhan University, China
Ruguo Fan received the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 1989, 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Economics and Management and the Director of Department of Technological Economics and Innovation Management, Wuhan University. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Manchester University, Manchester, U.K., and a Senior Visiting Scholar with the Toronto University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 journal papers in his research field which include complex governance, energy economy, and innovation management. Dr. Fan was the recipient of the third Prize of the 10th Hubei Social Science Excellent Achievements in 2016, Second Prize of the 11th Hubei Social Science Excellent Achievements in 2018, third Prize of the 13th Outstanding Achievement Award of Social Sciences from Wuhan in 2012, and the First Prize of the 17th Outstanding Achievement Award of Social Sciences from Wuhan in 2020.
Assistant Prof. Marek Bolanowsk
Complex Systems Department of the Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Marek Bolanowski, PhD - researcher at the Complex Systems Department of the Rzeszow University of Technology, member of the Presidium of the Board of the Polish Information Processing Society.
His main interests in the field of computer science are related to the design and operation of distributed systems, anomaly detection in information systems, cyber security, automation of the process of management of information systems, Industry 4.0 and IoE, management of IT projects, the process of prototyping and building PoC systems, and the organization of the process of education of engineers in the field of computer science. He is the author and co-author of dozens of scientific publications in this subject areas. Co-organizer and member of the organizing and program committees of many IT scientific and industry conferences, and speaker at scientific conferences and specialized workshops on issues related to the design, operation and security of distributed systems and engineering education. He has participated in a number of projects related to the design and development of distributed IT systems, interacting with leading hardware manufacturers and IT solution integrators. He is an instructor and co-founder of training academies and laboratories, member of the Education Quality Assurance Committee at WEiI PRz, PTI Expert. Reviewer Board member of international journals, among others: Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks and Future Internet, Reviewer in scientific journals including: Electronics, Sensors, Applied Sciences, Symmetry, Sustainability, Measurement Automation Monitoring.