Prof. Yingxu Wang
University of Calgary, Canada
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
Biography:
Prof. Dr. Yingxu Wang is professor of cognitive systems, brain science, software science, and intelligent mathematics. He is the founding President of International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (I2CICC). He is FIEEE, FBCS, FI2CICC, FAAIA, and FWIF. He has held visiting professor positions at Univ. of Oxford (1995, 2018-2022), Stanford Univ. (2008, 2016), UC Berkeley (2008), MIT (2012), and a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua Univ. (2019-2022). He has been a full professor since 1994. He is the founder and steering committee chair of IEEE Int'l Conference Series on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC) since 2002. He is founding Editor-in-Chiefs and Associate Editors of 10+ Int'l Journals and IEEE Transactions. He is Chair of IEEE SMCS TC-BCS on Brain-inspired Cognitive Systems, and Co-Chair of IEEE CS TC-CLS on Computational Life Science.,His basic research has spanned across contemporary scientific disciplines of intelligence, mathematics, knowledge, robotics, computer, information, brain, cognition, software, data, systems, cybernetics, neurology, and linguistics. He has published 600+ peer reviewed papers and 38+ books/proceedings. He has presented 65+ invited keynote speeches in international conferences. He has served as honorary, general, and program chairs for 40+ international conferences. He has led 10+ international, European, and Canadian research projects as PI. He is recognized by Google Scholar as world top 1 in Software Science, top 1 in Cognitive Robots, top 8 in Autonomous Systems, top 2 in Cognitive Computing, and top 1 in Knowledge Science with an h-index 67. He is recognized by ResearchGate as among the world's top 1.0% scholars in general and in several contemporary fields encompassing artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, theoretical computer science, engineering mathematics, software engineering, cognitive science, information science, and computational linguistics. He has published formal proofs for two of the world's top ten hardest mathematical problems known as the Goldbach conjecture and Twin-Prime conjecture in 2022.
Prof. Shugen Ma
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow
Biography:
Prof. Shugen Ma (IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, JSME Fellow) received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Before he joined HKUST (GZ), he was a professor at Ritsumeikan University (Japan) and a visiting professor at John Hopkins University, Shenyang Institute of Automation of CAS, Tianjin University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, respectively. He has published 520+ papers in major journals and conference proceedings, developed 50+ novel robot systems with 80+ patents, and supervised 44 doctoral students to graduation. Prof. Ma’s research interests include but are not limited to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots, amphibious robots, field robotics, and biologically inspired robotics. Prof. Ma is the general chair of IROS 2022 (a top robotics conference), founded the ROBIO conference in 2004, and served as the general chair of ROBIO 2004, ROBIO 2010, and ROBIO 2016. He has also been featured in the list of the world’s top 2% of scientists published by Stanford University.
Prof. LING Tok Wang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
IEEE Life Senior Member
Biography:
Dr LING Tok Wang is an emeritus professor of the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore since 1 July 2021.He was the Head of IT Division, Deputy Head of the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, and Vice Dean of the School of Computing of the University. Before joining the University as a lecturer in 1979, he was a scientific staff at Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. and M.Math., both in Computer Science, from University of Waterloo (Canada) and B.Sc.(1st class Hons) in Mathematics from Nanyang University (Singapore). His research interests include Data Modeling, Entity-Relationship Approach, Object-Oriented Data Model, Normalization Theory, Logic and Database, Integrity Constraint Checking, Semi-Structured Data Model, XML Twig Pattern Query Processing, ORA-semantics based XML and Relational Database Keyword Query Processing. He has published more than 230 international journal/conference papers and chapters in books, all in database research areas. He also co-edited 13 conference and workshop proceedings, co-authored one book, and edited one book.
Prof. Ming Xie
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography:
Dr. MingXie received the B.Eng degree in control and automation engineering from East-China Institute of Textile Technology (now, Donghua University, Shanghai, China). Subsequently, under the nation's prestigious overseas scholarship of Chinese government, he has completed the postgraduate studies and doctorate research works, and has received the Master degree from the University of Valenciennes (France) in 1986 as well as the PhD degree from the University of Rennes (France) in 1989. Since 1986, he has worked as Research Assistant at IRISA-INRIA Rennes, Expert Engineer at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of Nanyang Technological University, Fellow of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) (Affiliated with Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology Program), Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2002, 2006), Professor awarded by China's Jiangsu Provincial Government (2014), and Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Control Science at Nanjing Tech University (2014-2016). He was the General Chair of 2007 International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR), the General Chair of 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), 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. He has taught the courses such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Machine Vision, Measurement and Sensing Systems, Microprocessor Systems, and University Physics. In terms of scientific research, he has authored three books in English, two books in Chinese, two edited books in English, several book chapters, over 10 patents of invention, over 40 research papers in scientific journals and over 100 research papers in international conferences. He was the recipient of one best conference paper award from World Automation Congress, the recipient of one best conference paper award from CLAWAR, the recipient of one outstanding paper award from International Journal of Industrial Robot, the recipient of one Gold Prize (S$8K) from CrayQuest, the recipient of one Grand Champion Prize (S$15K) from CrayQuest, the recipient of one A-Star's Best Research Idea Prize (S$5K), the recipient of one Silver Medal from Dragon Design Foundation.
A. Prof. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
IEEE senior member
Biography:
Dr. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi is an Associate Professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology in China, holding a Ph.D. in Electronics-Robotics from Savitribai Phule University, Pune, India. He is a distinguished member of IEEE as a Senior Member and ACM, alongside being a Life Member of both the Instrument Society of India and the Speed Society of India.
His contributions extend beyond academia, as he actively participates in various IEEE conferences, serving in roles such as Keynote,TPC chair, reviewer, and editorial team member for conferences and various in ternational journals.
Dr. Moshayedi's scientific achievements are substantial, with over 90 articles published in prestigious national and international journals. Alongside his research publications, he has authored three books and holds two patents and 12 copyrights, showcasing his pioneering contributions. Notably, his latest book, "Unity in Embedded System Design and Robotics: A Step-by-Step Guide," published by CRC, is recognized as the first book to integrate VR, robotics, and embedded systems.
His research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including robotics and automation, sensor modeling, bio-inspired robots, mobile robot olfaction, column tracking, embedded systems, machine vision, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
A. Prof. Feng Cao
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Biography:
He received his PhD in Computer Science and Technology from Southwest Jiaotong University in June 2020. At present, he is in charge of 1 provincial Education Department project and 1 school-level project, and participates in 1 National Natural Science Foundation project as a core member; Published more than 10 papers in SCI, EI and other important journals and conferences at home and abroad; Applied for 3 invention patents; International first-order logic automatic theorem prover CSE, CSE_E series developers, developed two sets of software credibility verification system based on logical reasoning. Research interests: Intelligent information processing, automatic reasoning, automatic theorem proving in first-order logic, artificial intelligence.
A. Prof. Yishan Chen
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Biography:
Yishan Chen received the Ph.D. degree from the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2022.,She is currently working as an Associate Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Ganzhou, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China. Her papers have been published in some well-known conference proceedings and international journals, such as IEEE ICWS, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and MONET. Her research interests include cloud computing, service computing, edge computing, machine learning, and big data.
A. Prof. Miaomiao Liang
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Biography:
Miaomiao Liang received the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2018.,She is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China. Her research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and hyperspectral image processing.
Researcher Zeashan Khan
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing & Robotics, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
IEEE senior member
Biography:
Zeashan KHAN was born in Islamabad, Paksitan in 1978. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the N.E.D University, Pakistan in 2002. He received his Ph.D degree in 2010 in Automation and Computer Integrated Manufacturing from the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. From 2011 he was an Assistant Professor in Pakistani universities. He became Associate Professor in 2018 during his stay at National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan. Since 2023, he is working as a senior research at Interdisciplinary Research labs at KFUPM, KSA. His current research interests include fault tolerant control of robots, additive manufacturing and digital twins of industrial systems. He is currently serving as an editorial team member of more than 15 journals including IEEE Access, International journal of intelligent robotics and applications, Biomimetics, Drones, IEEE Transactions on consumer electronics etc. He is open for joint collaboration in his focused area of research.
A. Prof. Abolfazl razi
Clemson University, USA
IEEE senior member
Biography:
Abolfazl Razi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University, in 1998, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, University of Maine, in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor of computer science with Clemson University. He held two postdoctoral positions in the field of machine learning and predictive modeling at Duke University, from 2013 to 2014, and Case Western Reserve University, from 2014 to 2015. His current research interests include smart connected vehicles, driving safety analysis, wireless networking, the Internet of Things, and predictive modeling. He was a recipient of several competitive awards including the Best Research of MCI, in 2008, the Best Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award from the College of Engineering, University of Maine, in 2011, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE/CANEUS Fly By Wireless Workshop, in 2011.
