Committees

General Chair

Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK

IEEE Senior Member

GYU MYOUNG LEE is a Professor at the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. He received the BS degree from the Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1999, and the MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2000 and 2007. He is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), United Kingdom, as reader from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as adjunct professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor with KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, future networks, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies including smart grids. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF, and oneM2M, etc. In ITU-T, he currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, the Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as the chair of FG-DPM.

General Co-Chairs

Prof. Qinmin Yang

Zhejiang University, China

IEEE Senior Member

Qinmin Yang received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Civil Aviation University of China, the Master of Science Degree in Control Science and Engineering from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been an advanced system engineer with Caterpillar Inc., and a Post-doctoral Research Associate at University of Connecticut. Since 2010, he has been with the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, where he is currently a professor. He has also held visiting positions in University of Toronto and Lehigh University. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Processes, and Automatica Sinica. His research interests include intelligent control, renewable energy systems, smart grid, and industrial big data.

Prof. Xie Ming

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Autonomous Mental Development

Xie Ming is holding the positions of Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Co-founder of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (SCI/SCIE indexed), Co-founder of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science and Technology, Co-founder of Robotics Society of Singapore. In terms of scientific research, he has published three books, two edited books, several book chapters, over 10 patents of invention, over 30 research papers in scientific journals and over 100 research papers in international conferences. His research interests include machine intelligence (cognitive vision, natural language understanding), humanoid robotics (design, control, biped walking, mobile manipulation) and autonomous vehicles (perception, planning, and control).

Prof. Pascal Lorenz

University of Haute Alsace, France

IEEE Senior Member, IARIA Fellow

Pascal Lorenz received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nancy, France, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1990 to 1995, he was a research engineer with WorldFIP Europe and Alcatel-Alsthom, Boulogne-Billan-court, France. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks, and high-speed networks. He was a Technical Editor on the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board from 2000 to 2006. He has been a Technical Editor of IEEE Network since 2015 and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017. He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), the Journal on Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), the International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, and the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier). He is an IARIA Fellow and a member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions, and given tutorials at major international conferences. He was an IEEE Com-Soc Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2014.

Program Committee Chair

Prof. Pavel Loskot

Zhejiang University, China

IEEE Senior Member

Pavel Loskot joined the Zhejiang University, China in January 2021 as the Associate Professor after being nearly 14 years with Swansea University in the UK. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. He is the Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, and the Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education. His current research interest focuses on problems involving statistical signal processing and importing methods from Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Science to other disciplines in order to improve the efficiency and the information power of system modeling and analysis.

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Prof. Chengnian Long

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

IEEE Senior Member

Chengnian Long is a tenured professor of Department of Automation, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is Deputy Director at Blockchain Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and adjunct professor at Intelligent Connected Electric Vehicle Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interest mainly focuses on the Intelligent Connected Systems(ICS), including Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), Blockchain, and Distributed Autonomous System. He was the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs and IET Blockchain. He is a senior member ofthe IEEE.

Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

IEEE Senior Member

Carlos Becker Westphall received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in computer science from the Université Toulouse III–Paul Sabatier, France, in 1991.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Informatics and Statistics, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the Leader of the Networks and Management Laboratory. He was the founder of LANOMS. He has contributed to Elsevier as editorial board member of the ''Computer Networks Journal''; to Springer as board of editors and senior technical editor of the ''Journal of Network and Systems Management''. He acted as a local group coordinator in the European MAX/ESPRIT II project which involved the Alcatel- TITN, British Telecom, HP, CSELT, SIRTI and NKT Companies.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair

Asst. Prof. Luigi Borzì

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Luigi Borzì is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin and works on medical applications of artificial intelligence and wearable technologies. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin. He is Associate Editor of the journals Smart Health and PLOS ONE, and a member of the editorial board of the journals Frontiers in Digital Health and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of several international conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services, IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth, IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies, and the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. His research interests include machine learning, wearable technology, digital health, data analytics, wireless body sensor networks and medical IoT.

Publication Chair

Asst. Prof. Ruidan Su

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China

IEEE Senior Member

Dr. Ruidan Su received his MSc in Software Engineering from Northeastern University, China in 2010, and his Ph.D degree in Computer Application Technology from Northeastern University, China in 2014. He was an assistant professor of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2015–2020. He is currently a research assistant professor with Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Ruidan Su is an IEEE Senior Member. He has published 22 papers in referred journals, conference proceedings. He was the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems published by American Scientific Publisher from 2012-2016. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Granular Computing Published by Springer, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems published by IOS Press, a Review Board Member for Applied Intelligence. His field of science is artificial intelligence, system optimization, AI applications in medical image and finance.

Technical Program Committees(Alphabetize by Last Name)

Dr. Kibreab Adane, Arbaminch University, Ethiopia
Dr. Ioannis Bartsiokas, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Dr. Hung Cao, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dr. Aizaz Chaudhry, Carleton University, Canada
Prof. Wanyang Dai, Nanjing University, China
Assoc. Prof. Chao Fang, Beijing University of Technology, China
Dr. Ahmed G. Gad, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt
Prof. Amit Kr. Goyal, KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad
Dr. Yao Ge, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , Singapore
Dr. Fakrulradzi Bin Idris, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Muhammed Basheer Jasser, Sunway University, Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea
Assoc. Prof. Xun Jin, Yanbian University, China
Asst. Prof. Fredelino Galleto Jr., University of Southern Mindanao, Philippines
Prof. Young-Gab Kim, Sejong University, Korea
Dr. Muhammad Asif Khan, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar
Dr. Dragana Krstic, University of Nis, Serbia
Prof. Haruo Kobayashi, Gunma University, Japan
Prof. Lu Leng, Nanchang Hangkong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Thomas Y.S. Lee, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr. Merrihan Mansour, The British University in Egypt, Egypt
Prof. Alex Mathew, Bethany College, USA
Dr. Mohamed Naeem, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Dr. Uchejeso Mark Obeta, Federal College of Medical Laboratory Science and Technology Jos, Nigeria
Prof. Daowen Qiu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dr. Vera Sa-ing, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Luis Martín Sánchez-Adame, FES-Acatlán, UNAM, Mexico
Asst. Prof. Taisho Sasada, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Thanda Shwe, Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Carlos Natalino Da Silva, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Xiao Jian Tan, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Malaysia
Dr. Xuebo Yan, Fujian University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Claudio Zandron, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Prof. Francesco Zirilli, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy