Organization

General Chair

Sos S. Agaian
Professor, IEEE Fellow, The City University of New York, USA.

Research field: Computational Vision; Machine Learning; Large-Scale Data Analytics; Multi-Modal Data Fusion; Biologically Inspired Signal/Image Processing Modeling; Multi-Modal Biometrics and AI; 3D Imaging Sensors; Information Processing; Security; Biomedical and Health Informatics.

Sos S. Agaian (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with the College of Staten Island (CSI), The City University of New York. He has authored more than 750 technical articles and ten books in these areas.. He is a fellow of SPIE, IS&T, AAAS, and AAIA. He is an Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis and an Associate Editor of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), and Journal of Electronic Imaging (IS&T and SPIE).

Yang Yue
Professor, SPIE Fellow, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

Research field: Intelligent Photonics; Including Optical Communications; Optical Perception; Optical Chip.

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is the founder and current PI of Intelligent Photonic Application Technology Laboratory (iPatLab). Dr. Yue's current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published >300 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >14,000 citations, two books (Elsevier, Springer Nature), eight edited books, two book chapters, >50 issued patents (including 30 U.S. patents and 6 European patents), >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >90 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of Optica and SPIE. He is also among the Top 2% Scientists List Worldwide by Stanford University. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >80 prestigious journals.

Co-Chair

Vitaliy Mezhuyev
Professor, IEEE Senior Member, FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria.

Research field: Formal Methods; Metamodeling; Safety Modeling and Verification of Software Systems; IoT; and the Design of Cyber-Physical Systems.

Vitaliy Mezhuyev received a specialist degree in informatics from Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (BSPU), Ukraine, in 1997. In 2002, he received a PhD in Educational Technology from Kyiv National Pedagogical University and, in 2012, an ScD (habilitation) in Information Technology from Odesa National Technical University, Ukraine. From 2004 until 2014, he was the Head of the Department of Informatics and Software Engineering at BSPU, Ukraine. From 2014 until 2019 he was a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering at the University Malaysia Pahang, Head of the Software Engineering Research Group. Now he is a Professor at the Institute of Industrial Management in FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria. During his career, Vitaliy Mezhuyev participated in multiple international scientific and industrial projects, devoted to the formal modeling, design, and development of advanced software systems as a network-centric real-time operating system; IDEs for the automation of development of parallel real-time applications; tools for specification, verification and validation of software products; visual environment for metamaterials modeling and others. His current research interests include formal methods, metamodeling, safety modeling and verification of software systems, IoT, and the design of cyber-physical systems

Witold Pedrycz
Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Research field: Computational Intelligence; Granular Computing; and Machine Learning; among others.

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of  several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. Professor Pedrycz serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).

Sponsors

Huanggang Normal University

Haute Alsace University

ESIEA Paris

Zhejiang University of Technology

Technical Committee Chair

Jinsong Wu, University of Chile, Chile

Hamed Taherdoost, University Canada West, Canada

Vincent CS Lee, Monash University, Australia

Technical Committee Member

Aarti Amod Agarkar, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India

Addisson Salazar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Ajay B Gadicha, HOD AI&DS, India

Arijit Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Artur Czerwinski, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland

Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Federico Capasso, Harvard University, USA

George Carutasu, Romanian American University, Romania

Gheorghe Grigoras, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Ghezlane Halhoul Merabet, Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco

Ghulam M. Mustafa, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece

Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Hao Ying, Wayne State University, USA

Hock Jin Quah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Mlasiya

Issa Ramaji, Roger Williams University, USA

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

Jay Kumar Pandey, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, India

June Tay, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore

Kali Charan Rath, GIET University, India

Kaya Kuru, University of Central Lancashire, UK

K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Lounis Adouane, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

Luigi Fortuna, University of Catania, Italy

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

Luis Martínez López, Universidad de Jaén, Spain

Mahmoud Reza Delavar, University of Tehran, Iran

Maki K. Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Gunma University, Japan

Md. Khaja Mohiddin, Bhilai Institute of Technology, India

Md. Shamsul Arefin, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT), Bangladesh

Mohammad Soroosh, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, UK

Muhammad Firoz Mridha, American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Muhammad Usman, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Nadhir Messai, University of Reims, France

Nilgun Baydogan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Aveiro University, Portugal 

Peng Cui, Nanjing Tech University, China

Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania

Raghu Para, Ford Motor Company, USA

Rajib Biswas, Central University, India

Raul Campilho,  Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal 

Rohith Reddy Mandala, Tekzone Systems Inc, California, USA

Rushit Dave, Minnesota State University, USA

Sathishkumar V E, Sunway University, Malaysia

Shashikant Patil, ATLAS SkillTech University, India

Shimbi Masengo Wa Umba Papa Levi, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Sri Niwas Singh, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India

Tuli Shreshth, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China

Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, UK

Yilun Shang, Northumbia University, UK

Yingbo Suo, Wuhan University, China

Yousef FARHAOUI, Moulay Ismail University, MOROCCO

Zeashan Khan, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Organizing Committee Chair

Abdolkarim Afroozeh, University of Larestan, Iran

Smain Femmam, UHA University, France

Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Organizing Committee Member

Alessio Faccia, University of Birmingham Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Alex Mathews, Bethany College, USA

Boddu Raja Sarath Kumar, LENORA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, India

Ephraim Suhir, University of California-Los Angeles, USA

Kumar Rahul, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, India

Mat Santamouris, University New South Wales, Australia

Nicola Bena, University of Milan, Italy

Pankaj Arora, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India

Raja Kumar Murugesan, Taylor's University, Malaysia

Richard Addo-Tenkorang, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Sadko Mandžuka, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Thameur Dhieb, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Ting Zhao, Wuhan Business University, China

Vijayan K. Asari, University of Dayton, USA

Yew Chee Chew, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Yu-Mei Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Publication Chair

Ljiljana Trajković, Simon Fraser University, Canada