Keynote Speakers

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  Sos S. Agaian

  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.

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

  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 also serves as a Foreign Member for the Armenian National Academy. He received the Distinguished Research Award from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award, in 2014, and the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher Award (San Antonio Business Journal). 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).
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  Ljiljana Trajkovic

  Research field：Communication Network; Nonlinear Circuits and Systems.

  Professor, IEEE Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

  Ljiljana Trajković is Professor with the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University in Canada. She graduated from University of Pristina in 1974, got her master's degrees in electrical engineering (1979) and computer engineering (1981) from Syracuse University and PhD in electrical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. She was an National Science Foundation Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley College of Engineering, and a research scientist and member of technical staff at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research. She was the President of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. In 2005, she was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for contributions to computer aided design tools for circuit analysis".
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  Xiaodong Liu

  Research field：Pervasive Systems (Internet of Things); Service-Oriented Architecture; Evolution of Cloud Services; Intelligence-Driven Smart Systems.

  Professor, IEEE Senior Member, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

  Prof Xiaodong Liu has been very active in the research in AI-driven software engineering, focusing on pervasive systems (Internet of Things), service-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven smart systems. He has won 12 external grants and successfully led or leading these externally funded projects with the role of principal investigator. Currently Prof Liu leads the Intelligence-Driven Software Engineering Research Group. He is the founder a spin out company, FlexiCAGE Ltd. He has published 170 papers in refereed international journals and conferences and 5 book chapters. He is the inventor of 1 patent in Generative Component Adaptation registered in UK, USA and at International Level (PCT). He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and IASTED International Conferences. He is the associate editor of 2 international journals and the editorial board member of 3 international journals. He is the chief editor of 3 IGI Global Research Handbooks. He is the regular reviewer of other 6 international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE Computer Society, and a member of British Computer Society.
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  Haibin Zhu

  Research field：Collaboration Systems; Human-Machine Systems; Computational Social Systems; Collective Intelligence; Multi-Agent Systems; Software Engineering; Distributed Intelligent Systems.

  Professor, IEEE Senior Member, Nipissing University, Canada.

  Dr. Haibin Zhu is a Full Professor and the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program, the Founding Director of the Collaborative Systems Laboratory, a member of the University Budget Plan committee, Arts and Science Executive Committee, Nipissing University, Canada. He is also an affiliate professor of Concordia Univ. and an adjunct professor of Laurentian Univ., Canada. He has accomplished (published or in press) over 230+ research works including 40+ IEEE Transactions articles, six books, five book chapters, four journal issues, and four conference proceedings. He is a fellow of I2CICC (International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing), a senior member of ACM and IEEE, a full member of Sigma Xi, and a life member of CAST-USA (Chinese Association of Science and Technology, USA). He is serving as Vice President, Systems Science and Engineering (SSE) (2023-2024), a member-at-large of the Board of Governors (2022-), and a co-chair (2014-) of the technical committee of Distributed Intelligent Systems of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society (SMCS), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SMC Magazine (2022), Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems (2019-), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems(2019-), Frontiers of Computer Science (2021-), and IEEE Canada Review (2019-). He was AE of IEEE SMC Magazine (2018-2021), Associate Vice President (AVP), SSE (2021), IEEE SMCS, a Program (Co-)Chair for many international conferences, and a PC member for 130+ academic conferences. He is the founding researcher of Role-Based Collaboration and the creator of the E-CARGO model. He has offered 15+ keynote speeches for international conferences and 90+ invited talks internationally. His research has been being sponsored by NSERC, IBM, DNDC, DRDC, and OPIC.
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  Hamed Taherdoost

  Research field：Management of Information Systems; Technology Acceptance Models and Frameworks; Information Security Management; Research Methodology; Information Security–Cybersecurity; Smart Card Technology; Computer Ethics; Web Services Quality & Web Service Security; E-Service & E-Commerce; Performance Evaluation; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM).

  Associate Professor, IEEE Senior Member, University Canada West, Canada.

  Dr. Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and research and development professional. He is the Founder of Hamta Group | Hamta Business Solution and Associate Professor & Chair of Research and Scholarly Activities Committee at University Canada West. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors. He has been a university lecturer in three different parts of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Besides, he has organized and chaired numerous workshops, conferences, and conference sessions respectively, and has delivered speeches as chief guest and keynote speaker. His views on science and technology have been published in top-ranked scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, IEEE, IGI Global, Inderscience, Taylor and Francis and Dr. Hamed has published over 200 scientific articles in authentic peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He has been listed on the Stanford-Elsevier list of World’s top 2% of scientist by August 2021 and 2022. He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, IEDRC & HKSRA, Fellow Member of ISAC, WGM of IFIP TC11 - Assurance and Information Security Management, and member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC, and AASHE. Currently, he is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects, including studying innovation in information technology, blockchain and cybersecurity, and technology acceptance.
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  Ping Wang

  Research field：Wireless Communications and Networking; Internet of Things; Machine Learning; Resource Management in Cloud Computing; Power Energy Management in Smart Grid.

  Associate Professor, IEEE Fellow, York University, Canada.

  Ping Wang (Fellow, IEEE) received the bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2008. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, and the Tier 2 York Research Chair. Her scholarly works have been widely disseminated through top-ranked IEEE journals/conferences. She was the recipient of the best paper awards from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022, 2020, and 2012, from IEEE Communication Society: Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee in 2018, and from IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2007. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
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  Pooja Singh

  Research field：Mathematical Modelling; Image Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Reliability; System Design; Safety and Security of Safety Critical Computer Based Systems.

  Assistant Professor, IEEE Senior Member, SIES- Graduate School of Technology, 
  India.

  Dr. Pooja Singh received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). She is currently Assistant Professor in SIES Graduate School of Technology, Navi Mumbai, and has distinction of working in the field of Image processing, Artificial intelligence, Mathematical Modelling, reliability engineering, safety engineering and other mathematical sciences for to solve the various technical challenges in Nuclear Power Plants. She has an illustrious career and succeeded in several critical jobs assigned to him in his illustrious career, though, each of them was challenging. Her assignments over the years range from design, development, testing, IV&V, related research and site validation of the safety critical computer based systems of Indian Nuclear Power Plants. She has published several research papers in journals of high impact factor like IEEE Transactions, IEEE Computer, ACM, Elsevier, Quality & Reliability International, etc. She is recipient of many awards like prestigious IEEE K. Shankar award, publication award, etc. She has also received IEEE Woman Technologist award. She is a reviewer of several SCI indexed journals of high impact factor, including 14 different IEEE Transactions. She is a life member of Indian Nuclear Society. She is a Senior Member of IEEE. She has been invited for keynote speeches, and talks in many international IEEE and other conferences. She is a member of editorial board of many reputed journals and guest lead editor of many special issues.