Committees

General Chair

Dr.Biao Huang

University of Alberta,Canada

Biao Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Process Control from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1997. He joined the University of Alberta in 1997 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and is currently a Full Professor, and NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair. He is an IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He is a recipient of awards including Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany, Best Paper award from IFAC Journal of Process Control, APEGA Summit Award in Research Excellence, AsTech Outstanding Achievement in Science & Engineering Award and Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice, etc. He has published five books and more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers. His research interests include process control, data analytics, machine learning, Bayesian inference. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for IFAC Journal Control Engineering Practice, Subject Editor for Journal of the Franklin Institute, and Associate Editor for Journal of Process Control.

Co-General Chair

Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria

Roumen Kountchev, Ph.D., D. Sc. is a professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 341 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings (71 international); 15 books; 46 book chapters; 20 patents (3 international). He had been principle investigator of 38 research projects (6 international).

At present he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) and President of Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of Intern. Association for Pattern Recognition). Editorial board member of: Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has been a plenary speaker at: WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing 2009, Istanbul; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation, University of Cambridge 2010, UK; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; Intern. Workshop on Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and e-Health 2013, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Workshop SCCIBOV 2015, Djillali Liabès University, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algérie; Intern. Conf. on Information Technology 2015 and 2017, Al Zayatoonah University, Amman, Jordan; WSEAS European Conf. of Computer Science 2016, Rome, Italy.

Prof. Dr.Jianqi Li

Hunan university of Arts and Science, China

Li Jianqi holds a Ph.D. and is a Professor, as well as the Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Control Technology of Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft. Additionally, he serves as the Vice Chairman of the Hunan Instrument and Control Society.

Prof. Dr. Li's expertise lies in the field of computer control and detection technology. He is a master student tutor at both Hunan University and Xiangtan University. He is also an expert on the Changde City Major Administrative Decision-making Advisory Committee.

Under Prof. Dr. Li's guidance, his students have achieved remarkable success, receiving over 10 provincial competition awards. Furthermore, his students have published more than 10 papers, and their work has been recognized with the third prize of provincial teaching achievements.

As a principal investigator, Prof. Dr. Li has led 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 2 provincial self-finance fund projects. He has published over 50 academic papers, including 30 articles in SCI/EI. Additionally, he holds 5 invention patents, 8 utility model patents, and 15 software copyrights.

Prof. Dr. Li has also made significant contributions outside of academia. He has served as a special commissioner of Changde City Science and Technology, successfully developing more than 10 horizontal projects for enterprises. These projects have achieved notable economic and social benefits. One of his notable achievements is the high-precision steel strip parameter measurement system, which is an innovative project in China.

Program Chair

Prof. Dr.Srikanta Patnaik

I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 55 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc..

Dr. SrikantaPatnaik is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convegence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals.  

He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA.

He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited more than 20 countries across the globe and visiting professors to some of the universities. 

Programme Co-Chair

Prof. Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu

University “Politehnica” in Bucharest

Faculty Automatic Control and Computer Science,Romanian

Professor Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu, was born on 17 September 1950, graduated in Electronicsand Telecommunications from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in 1974, holds a PhD in Reliability since 1981. He has been appointed Director of the “UNESCO Chair in Information Technologies Department” at University of Oradea. Also, he is Professor to University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science. Professor Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu is the founder of the first “UNESCO Chair of Information Engineering” , in UK, established at City University London, in 1998. He published over 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Also he is author of one book co-author of 4 books.

He has worked for many years on problems associated with software reliability and has been Co-Director of two NATO Research Projects. Also he is on the advisory board of several international journals, including “Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications” and is a reviewer to “ACM Computing Reviews. He is currently Associated Editorto the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT) – Inderscience Publishers.

He is an independent expert to the European Commission - H2020 programme, for Net Services – Software and Services, Cloud.

Professor Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu is currently Visiting Professor to:

Telecom Paris, ENST

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines Paris, ENSMP

Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, ENSTA

ETH - Zurich

Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, UPMC

Delft University of Technology

University of Twente Enschede

Technical University of Denmark Lyngby

Sultan Qaboos University

University of Calcutta

He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Romanian Scientists in 2008.

Publication Chair

Prof.Dr. Vipul JAIN

Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand

Dr Vipul Jain is a Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management atVictoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has also worked as a French Government researcher for the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control at Nancy, France, and was also involved in theEuropean project I* PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) from UK. Vipul has more than 85 archival publications to his credit in high impact factorjournals, as well as conference papers and books chapters, is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, and an Editorial Board member forseven international journals. Vipul is ranked 7th in India in a list of top 20 Indian leading academicians publishing in the area of Logistics and Supply Chain management in an exhaustive study entitled “Analysis of the Logistics research in India- white paper (2012), pp.1-11” conducted by researchers from Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund University, Institute for Supply Chain and Network Management, TechnischeUniversität Darmstadt, and University of Münster, Germany. Vipul is involved as a scientific and advisory committee member for various international conferences. He was the Programme Coordinator for the Masters in Industrial Engineering Programme at IIT Delhi, and has been actively involved in conducting Management Development Programmes/Training Programmes for Senior Managers andExecutives of Public and Private Organisations in India on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Publication Co-Chair

Prof. Brij B. Gupta

Asia University, Taiwan

Prof. Brij B. Gupta is working as Director of International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. In more than 17 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 35 books and 11 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, GoI, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE  paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, respectively. Prof. Gupta was recently  selected for 2022 Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science ( Only researcher from Taiwan and India in computer Science in this prestigious 2022 HCR List). He was also selected in the 2022, 2021 and 2020 Stanford University's ranking of the world's top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI, STE and IJCAC as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of a Book Series with CRC and IET press. He also served as TPC members in more than 150 international conferences also serving as Associate/Guest Editor of various journals and transactions. His research interests include information security, Cyber physical systems, cloud computing, blockchain technologies, intrusion detection, AI, social media and networking.

Dr. Shoulin Yin

Shenyang Normal University, China

Shoulin Yin is a PhD. Currently he is a lecture in Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China and the Deputy Director of Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory in Shenyang Normal University. He has published more than 100 technical articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include Software Engineering, AI, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Image processing, Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition. Dr. Yin's research work focuses on various image processing and computation communication methods through technology, developing new and innovative approaches for industrial control, remote sensing image, medical imaging. He has worked with hospitals, education groups in China and internationally on a number of projects. Dr. Yin has worked with a number of engineers, educator. Projects included work with images, sensors, web applications, and HIPAA compliant cloud servers. His experience extends to working with military institution in China. Dr Yin is an associate editor of International Journal of Imaging and Sensing Technologies and Applications (IJISTA), associate editor of Journal of Applied Science and Engineering (JASE) is included in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), COMPENDEX PLUS (EI) and SCOPUS, associate editor of International Journal of Image Processing and Vision Science (IJIPVS), editor member of International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing(IJIGSP), a mentor of Interscience Research Network (https://www.interscience.in/mentors/80/), Lead Guest editor of SN Applied Sciences (indexed by EI and ESCI), Lead guest editor of Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS) (SCI indexed, IF=1.167), Lead Guest editor of Current Medical Imaging, (SCI indexed, IF=0.85), Lead Guest editor of Electronics.

Organising Chair

Prof.Dr. Andrew W. H. Ip

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Prof. Andrew W. H. Ip received his PhD from Loughborough University (U.K.), MBA from Brunel University (U.K.), MSc in Industrial Engineering from Cranfield University (U.K.), and LLB (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). Dr Ip was awarded in 2015 “Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury” and “Thailand Award for Best International Invention” in the 43rd International Exhibition of Geneva, and he was awarded the “Natural Science Award ” in 2013 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education of Mainland China. Dr. Ip is visiting professor of Civil Aviation University of China, South China Normal University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Honorary Fellow of the University Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group. He is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan and principal research fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a chartered engineer, senior member of IEEE and member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and members of various professional bodies in mechanical and electrical engineering. He is Editor in Chief of the journal of Enterprise Information System (SCI index), Taylor & Francis; Founder & Editor in Chief of International Journal of Engineering Business Management (ESCI & SCOPUS index), SAGE.

Organising Co-Chair

Prof. Shengqing Li

Hunan University of Technology,China

Shengqing Li was born in 1961 in Hunan province, China. He is a Doctor of Engineering, professor, doctoral supervisor and the expert entitled to government special allowance（GSA）. Meanwhile, he is serving as the Chairman of Hunan Engineering Research Center, the academic leader of provincial key discipline as well as the permanent member of Hunan Electrotechnical Society and Hunan Electrical Engineering Society.

Professor Li's extensive experiences with electricity and engineering lead to his broader interest in Power Quality Control Strategy for Distribution Network, New Energy Grid-Connected System Power and Electrical Energy-saving Technology. He currently hosted and participated in 20 important research projects of the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation and National Key R&D Program of China etc. He received 9 ministerial Second Prizes and honored prizes of Progress in Science and Technology, Science and Technology Award of China Electrotechnical Society etc. with his papers, researches, 14 Authorized Patents and Software Copyright.

Professor Li is the author of 6 book including 2 of them were published by China Science Press. He has published numerous papers, 45 of which are included by SCI/EI consisting of Proceedings of the CSEE and International Journal of Robotics and Automation etc.

Prof. Dr.Sc.Kazumi Nakamatsu

Hyogo University,Japan

Kazumi Nakamatsu received the Ms. Eng. and Dr. Sci. from Shizuoka University and Kyushu University, Japan, respectively. He is a full Professor at School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Japan. His research interests encompass various kinds of logic and their applications to Computer Science, especially paraconsistent annotated logic programs and their applications. He has developed some paraconsistent annotated logic programs called ALPSN(Annotated Logic Program with Strong Negation), VALPSN(Vector ALPSN), EVALPSN(Extended VALPSN) and bf-EVALPSN (before-after EVALPSN) recently, and applied them to various intelligent systems such as a safety verification based railway interlocking control system and process order control. He is an author of over 150 papers and 20 book chapters, and 10 edited books published by prominent publishers. Kazumi Nakamatsu has chaired various international conferences, workshops and invited sessions, and he has been a member of numerous international program committees of workshops and conferences in the area of Computer Science. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems(IJRIS) by Inderscience Publisher(UK) and an editorial board member of many international journals. He has contributed numerous invited lectures at international workshops, conferences, and academic organizations. He also is a recipient of some conference and paper awards. He is a member of Japan AI Society, Japan Facial Society, etc.

Dr. Lei Chen

Shandong University, China

Lei Chen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include image processing and computer vision, visual quality assessment and pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the principal investigator of projects granted from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He has published more than 40 papers on top international journals and conferences in recent years including IEEE TIP, Signal Process., ICME, etc. Hse was awarded the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University. He served for the ICIGP 2021, ICIGP 2022, IoTCIT 2022, MLCCIM 2022, etc. as Technical Co-Chair or Publicity Co-Chair.

Technical Program Committee

Prof.Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras，De Montfort University, UK

Prof.Dr. Maode Ma，Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE

Prof.Dr. Masoud Barati，Cardiff University, UK

Prof.Dr. Peng Zhang，Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.

Prof.Dr. Ramjeevan Singh Thakur，Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, INDIA

Prof.Dr. Richard John Fairchild，University of Bath, UK

Prof.Dr. Georgios Mamanis，Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Prof.Dr. Rangan Gupta，University of Pretoria, South Africa

Prof.Dr. Naliniprava Tripathy，Indian Institute of Management Shillong, India

Prof.Dr. Jaafar M. Alghazo，Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA

Prof.Dr. GAJANAND M. S.，Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli, India

Prof.Dr. Rojers P Joseph，Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, India

Prof.Dr. Sarandis Mitropoulos，Ionian University, Greece

Prof.Dr. S.G. Sapate，Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

Prof.Dr. Kevin Deng，Jilin University, Changchun, China

Prof.Dr. Janusz Kacprzyk，Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Prof.Dr. VINCENZO PALLOTTA，Swiss Applied Science University - Canton Vaud

Prof.Dr. Marco Ceccarelli，University of Cassino and South Latium, Italy

Prof.Dr. Tapio Varis，University of Tampere, Finland

Prof.Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas ，Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

Prof.Dr. Brian SIU，City University of Hong Kong

Prof.Dr. Roman Szewczyk，Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP,Poland

Prof.Dr. Guodong Wang ，Computer Science Department, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts(MCLA), Massachusetts, USA

Prof.Dr. Florin Vladicescu Popentiu，City University, UK

Prof.Dr. Guangzhi  Qu，Oakland University, USA

Prof.Dr. VS SarmaYadavalli，University of Pretoria, South Africa

Prof.Dr. Brunoi Apollon，Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Prof.Dr. W.A.G.A.(Harry)Bouwman，Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Prof.Dr. Yahaya Coulibaly，University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof.Dr. Ing  Kong，RMIT University, Australia

Prof.Dr. Gerald Midgley，Centre for Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, UK

Prof.Dr. Moustafa Mohammed , Eissa，Faculty of Engineering-Helwan University, Egypt

Prof.Dr. FernandoBoronat Seguí，UNIVERSIDAD POLITéCNICA DE VALENCIA, SPAIN

Prof.Dr. Alexandros Fragkiadakis，Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Greece

Prof.Dr. Cristina Alcaraz，University of Malaga, Spain

Prof.Dr. Mohamed Atef，United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Prof.Dr. Weilin   Wang，University of Georgia, USA

Prof.Dr. Bensafi Abd-Ei-Hamid，World Islamic Sciences and Education University, Jordan

Prof.Dr. Hadi  Arabshahi，Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Prof.Dr. Alojz Poredo，University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Prof.Dr. Mohamed F.  El-Santawy，Cairo University, Egypt

Prof.Dr. Tongpin Liu，University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Prof.Dr. Seema  Verma，Banasthali University, India 

Prof.Dr. Loc  Nguyen，Director of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), Vietnam

Prof.Dr. Hyunsung Kim，Kyungil University, Korea

Prof.Dr. Faisal Syafar，UNM Parangtambung, Indonesia

Prof.Dr. Nikolaos  Pellas，University of the Aegean, Greek

Prof.Dr. Alexey Nekrasov，Southern Federal University, Russia

Prof.Dr. Wen-Cheng  Lai，National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Prof.Dr. ARUN AGARWAL，Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deeemed to be University, India

Prof.Dr. Biju T. Sayed Mohammed，Dhofar University, Indian

Prof.Dr. Wuyi  Yue，Konan University, Japan

Prof.Dr. Juan M. Carrillo，Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Prof.Dr. Ioan-Lucian Popa，University Alba Iulia, Romania

Prof.Dr. HAMIDA  Souraya，Université Batna 2, Algérie, Algeria

Prof.Dr. Teodor Lucian Grigorie，Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Romania

Prof.Dr. Ong Pauline，Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof.Dr. Soumyadip  Bandyopadhyay，System Analysis and Modeling Group Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Prof.Dr. Dariusz Jacek  Jakóbczak，Koszalin University of Technology, Poland

Prof.Dr. Xu Wang，Heriot Watt University, UK