Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
(IEEE Fellow)

Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for his research contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of big data applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief between 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities, including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.

 

 
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
(IEEE Fellow)

Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director and President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

 

 
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Hui Li, Peking University, China

Hui Li is a Professor of Peking University、Chief Information Scientist of IASTIC（International Academician Science & Technology Innovation Center）; Foreign Academician of Russia Academy of Natural Science、Member of Expert Committee of World Digital Tech. Academy under guidance of UN Commission on Sci.&Tech. for Developments、Fellow of IET、Senior Member of IEEE & China CCF. He received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees from School of Information Eng., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000. He was Director of Shenzhen Key Lab of Information theory & Future Internet architecture, Director of PKU Lab of CENI (China Environment for Network Innovations), National Major Research Infrastructure. He proposed the first co-governing future network arch. ‘MIN’based on blockchain technology and implemented its prototype on Operator’s Network in the world，and MIN was obtained the award of World Leading Internet Scientific and Technological Achievements by the 6th World Internet Conference on 2019, WuZhen, China. He was invited as Guest Editor of ZTE COMMUNICATIONS March 2020 Vol. 18 No. 1 (Issue 69)，with topic: Domain Name and Identifier of Internet: Architecture & Systems. The first English monograph by theme of “Cyberspace UN”in the world has been published by Springer Publisher with title：《Co-governed Sovereignty Network: Legal Basis and Its Prototype & Applications with MIN Architecture》. His research interests include network architecture, cyberspace security, blockchain，distributed storage. As the first author, He has published four Monographs with field on Future network architecture, Consensus Algorithms on Blockchain, Distributed storage theory and system.

 

 
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Yajuan Xue, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Ya-juan Xue is currently a Professor with the School of Communication Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Sichuan, China. She was awarded as the thirteenth batch outstanding expert with outstanding contributions of Sichuan Province, China since 2018. She has participated in several national research programs under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) in several national and regional research projects, especially the national young research projects funded by NSFC, the outstanding young academic leaders fund of Sichuan Province. In recent years, she has published more than 80 papers in high-level journals and important academic conferences at home and abroad. She is a life member of Chinese Geophysical Society, active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). She is a Review Editor of the journal 'Frontiers in Earth Science'. She is also the reviewer for the journals such as Surveys in Geophysics, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing letters, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Exploration Geophysics, Acta Geophysica, Interpretation, Journal of applied Geophysics, Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Measurement, IEEE Access, Measurement, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Complexity, Defence Technology.  

 

 
Keynote Speaker V
Assoc. Prof. Shankai Yan, Hainan University, China

Shankai received his Ph.D. degree in Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (4th in QS World University Ranking aged under 50 and 5th in Times University Ranking aged under 50) under the supervision of Dr. WONG Ka-Chun. After that, he was awarded the fellowship of NIH and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Zhiyong Lu’s BioNLP Lab at NCBI/NLM/NIH. He is now an associate professor in School of Computer Science and Technology at Hainan University. He has published papers with interesting topics on top conference and journals (e.g. ACL(BioNLP), AMIA, Bioinformatics, FGCS, JBI and JBHI), demonstrating his solid research skills. His research is mainly about applied machine learning in biomedical and clinical fields. His goal is to facilitate knowledge discovery and decision making in healthcare research communities using AI technology. Shankai has served as the guest editor for the special issue Generative AI in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics for Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. He has also served as the co-chair at ISMSI 2024, ISCMI 2024 and the session chair at IEEE UIC 2022, IEEE ICPADS 2023. He has been the program committee member of CACML, BIBM, ICCBB, ICONIP, ACL BioNLP Workshop, etc. He has served as the peer reviewer for multiple conferences (e.g. ACL, BIGCOM, ICONIP, BIBM, ICHI, DMBD, ISMSI, etc.) and journals (e.g. BIB, Bioinformatics, PlosCB, JAMIA, Database, JBI, CSBJ, IEEE TCBB, CAIS, TCSS, ASOC, FGCS, NCAA, etc.). Before the Ph.D. study, Shankai obtained his BEng and MEng degrees in School of Software Engineering at South China University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Zhang Pingjian. He has also studied at King’s College London as a visiting student in Dr. Kathleen Steinhöfel’s Lab, cooperating with Dr. Mariam Molokhia and Dr. Paul Bates at Francis Crick Institute.

 

 
Keynote Speaker VI
Prof. Xin Xu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology (IEEE Senior Member)

Xin Xu is the Xiangtao Distinguished Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research deals with image processing, computer vision, and deep learning. More specifically, his research areas focus on building a hierarchical person re-identification architecture including detection and recognition for nighttime surveillance scenarios. He has authored over 150 papers, including top-tier journals and conference proceedings, as well as the cover paper of the journal International Journal of Intelligent Systems and the Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). 

 

 
Keynote Speaker VII
Prof. Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Mianxiong Dong was born in Shanghai, China. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is the Vice President and the youngest ever Professor of Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. He has published over 420 academic papers, of which more than half are published in top journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS, as well as top conferences including IEEE INFOCOM. A total of 7 papers have been selected as ESI Hot Papers (top 0.1%), and 33 papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%). He has received best paper awards from ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, DASC 2015, VTC 2016-Fall, FCST 2017, ICCC 2018, AICON 2019, CPSCom 2019, ICPADS 2019, MSN 2020 and MetaCom 2023. Dr. Dong serves as an Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Networking Letters, Cyber-Physical Systems (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Information and Intelligence, as well as a associate editor for IEEE Access. He has been serving as the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee, Co-Chair of IEEE Communications Society Asia/Pacific Region Technical Affairs Committee (TAC), Student Activities Committee Chair of IEEE Sapporo Section. He serves as the Principal Investigator of more than ten research projects, including Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and KDDI Foundation, Program Officer (PO) of JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING). He is the recipient of The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2017, Funai Research Award 2018, NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology, The Young Scientists’ Award from MEXT in 2021, SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award from IEICE in 2021, IEEE TCSC Middle Career Award in 2021. He is currently the Member of Board of Governors and Chair of Student Fellowship Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Treasurer of IEEE ComSoc Japan Joint Sections Chapter. He is Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021, 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science) and Foreign Fellow of EAJ.