Prof.Alex Kot Chichung
Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IES
Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
Prof.
Kot has been with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore since 1991. He headed the Division of Information Engineering
at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
for eight years. He was the Vice Dean Research and Associate Chair
(Research) for the School of EEE for three years, overseeing the
research activities for the School with over 200 faculty members. He was
the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for the College of Engineering (COE)
for eight years. He is currently the Director of ROSE
Lab [Rapid(Rich) Object SEearch Lab) and the Director of NTU-PKU
Joint Research Institue . He has published extensively with over 300
technical papers in the areas of signal processing for communication,
biometrics recognition, authentication, image forensics, machine
learning and AI. He has two USA and one Singapore patents granted.
Dr. Kot
served as Associate Editor for a number of IEEE transactions, including
IEEE TSP, IMM, TCSVT, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TIP, SPM, SPL, JSTSP, JASP, TIFS,
etc. He was a TC member for several IEEE Technical Committee in SPS and
CASS. He has served the IEEE in various capacities such as the General
Co-Chair for the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
(ICIP) and area/track chairs for several IEEE flagship conferences. He
also served as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
Program Coordinator and the Chapters Chair for IEEE Signal Processing
Chapters worldwide. He received the Best Teacher of The Year Award at
NTU, the Microsoft MSRA Award and as a co-author for several award
papers. He was elected as the IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer in 2005.
He was a Vice President in the Signal Processing Society and IEEE
Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is now a Fellow
of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow
of IES.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Hongzhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hongzhi
Wang, Professor, PHD supervisor, the head of massive data computing
center, the secretary general of ACM SIGMOD China, outstanding CCF
member, IEEE Senior member, a standing committee member CCF databases
and a member of CCF big data committee. Research Fields include big data
management and analysis, database systems, knowledge engineering and
data quality. He was “starring track” visiting professor at MSRA and
postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Irvine. Prof. Wang has
been PI for more than 10 national or international projects including
NSFC key project, NSFC projects and National Technical support project,
and co-PI for more than 10 national projects include 973 project, 863
project and NSFC key projects. He also serves as a member of ACM Data
Science Task Force. He has won First natural science prize of
Heilongjiang Province, MOE technological First award, Microsoft
Fellowship, IBM PHD Fellowship and Chinese excellent database engineer.
His publications include over 300 papers in the journals and conferences
such as VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE and SIGIR, 6 books
and 6 book chapters. His PHD thesis was elected to be outstanding PHD
dissertation of CCF and Harbin Institute of Technology. He severs as the
reviewer of more than 20 international journal including VLDB Journal,
IEEE TKDE, and PC members of over 50 international conferences including
SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, ICML, NeurpIS, ICDE, etc. His papers were cited more
than 3500 times. His personal website is
http://homepage.hit.edu.cn/wang.
Prof. Xiaodong Yue, Shanghai University, China
Dr.
Xiaodong Yue is a professor in the School of Computer Engineering &
Science and AI Institute at Shanghai University. Before joining Shanghai
University, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Computer Science & Technology at Tongji University. He also received the
Ph.D. degree from Tongji University in 2010. In 2008, he was a research
assistant in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist
University. In 2017, he was a research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. From 2011 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in
the Faculty of Engineering & Info Tech. at University of Technology,
Sydney.
The major research interests of Dr. Yue include the theories and
applications of Machine Learning, in which he has the special focus on
Soft Computing, Image Analysis and Data Mining. He has published more
than 80 academic papers in these areas, including prestigious journals
and international conferences. Dr. Yue has supervised 4 national
research foundations of China as a principal investigator. He also
joined in 6 relevant national research projects and 3 engineering
projects as a major participant in recent years.
In the past five years, Dr. Yue served as a PC member for a number of
international conferences such as AAAI, PAKDD, ICONIP and also served as
a conference chair of Belief 2021 and a publication chair for ICME2012,
DSAA2014 and RSKT2014. He is an area editor of International Journal of
Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) and the Elsevier journal Array. He also
served as a reviewer for several international journals such as IEEE
TFS, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences and Knowledge-based
Systems.
Assoc. Prof. Andrew Keong Ng
CEng, SMIEEE, Sr. MIES, MIET, AMIRSE
Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Dr.
Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor with Singapore Institute of
Technology. He is a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council
and serves on the committees of various local and international
professional engineering institutions, such as Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineers Singapore
(IES), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Institution
of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and
IES; a Consultant and Advisor to startups and multinational
corporations; and a Guest Editor of a special issue of an international
journal. In addition, Dr. Ng is a Principal Investigator of several
grants amounting to more than SGD 1 million. He holds one international
patent and has over 25 publications as both first and corresponding
author. His research and development innovations have also garnered him
several prestigious awards, such as Outstanding Researcher Award,
Teaching Excellence Award, Amity Researcher Award, Young Investigator
Award, and National Instruments Editor’s Choice Engineering Impact
Award. Furthermore, Dr. Ng has been a keynote and an invited speaker at
various international conferences. He has also been frequently quoted
and interviewed by news media on railway transportation issues and
current affairs.
Assoc. Prof.
Gang Liu, Harbin Engineering University,
China
Gang
Liu, Ph.D., associate professor, main research directions: artificial
intelligence, natural language processing, computer vision, data mining,
machine learning, computer network. Born in September 1976, he started
working in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin
Engineering University in 1999. In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a visiting
scholar at Monash University in Australia in 2014. Expert of the
Information Construction Professional Committee of the Education
Logistics Association of the Ministry of Education of China, and an
expert of the Education and Examination Center of the Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology of China. Member of IEEE, member of
ACM, senior member of China Computer Federation, member of China
Artificial Intelligence Society, member of Chinese Information Society
of China. For a long time, he has been engaged in teaching and research
work in software and theory, pattern recognition and intelligent systems
in colleges and universities. Undertook 1 National Natural Science
Foundation Project, 1 National Key R&D Program Project, 2 National
Science and Technology Support Program Projects, 1 Ministry of Education
Planning Fund Project, 2 State Key Laboratory Open Funds, 1 China
Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 1 Heilongjiang Provincial Natural
Science Foundation. He has won 1 second prize of China Informatization
Achievement Award, 1 second prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Science and
Technology Progress Award, 2 third prizes, 8 patents and 14 software
copyrights. He has published more than 70 academic papers in
international academic journals and international academic conferences,
and more than 50 papers have been indexed by SCI and EI. Published 5
monographs and textbooks.
Assoc. Prof. Lin Li, Xidian University, China
Lin Li,
associate professor of Xidian University since 2011. From February 2016
to February 2017, he was a research scholar with University of
Missouri-St. Louis, MO. He is currently the Vice Chair of the Department
of Electronics Engineering at Xidian University.
He is senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics, member of IEEE,
special commentator of American Mathematical Review. He has published
more than 80 papers in domestic and foreign journals and conferences
such as IEEE TSP, IEEE TAES, ACHA, SP, MSSP, DSP, Journal of Electronics
and Information. He has applied for more than 40 invention patents.
His research interest includes the separation of radar signals,
time-frequency analysis of nonstationary signals, and incoherent
scattering radar signal processing.
