Prof. Huiyu Zhou
University of Leicester, UK
Biography: Dr. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", “MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award”, “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award” and was nominated for “ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award” and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize". His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, Invest NI, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry. Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/people/huiyu-zhou
Prof. Branislav Vuksanovic
Deputy Head of Department of Systems Engineering
Military Technological College, Oman
Biography: Dr. Branislav Vuksanovic is an Electrical and Power Engineer, with a long academic and professional career. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and later earned his MSc degree in Measurement and Instrumentation at South Bank University in London, UK. He went on to complete his PhD in Active Noise Control at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Dr. Vuksanovic has a career history, which includes working as a Project Engineer for the Croatian Electricity Board in Osijek, Croatia, and as a Research Fellow at Sheffield and Birmingham Universities on medical imaging research projects. At the University of Derby, he worked as a Lecturer and was a member of the Sensors and Controls Research Group. He moved to theUniversity of Portsmouth where he first worked as a Senior Lecturer and later as an Associate Head of School for Research and Innovation at the School of Energy and Electronic Engineering. Currently he is a Deputy Head of Department of Systems Engineering at the Military Technological College in Oman.
He has written and published research papers, including those in the areas of active noise control, biomedical signal processing, and pattern recognition for intrusion detection and knowledge-based authentication. He has also authored a book in the Digital Electronics and Microcontrollers field, and organized and chaired several international conferences and workshops. Dr. Vuksanovic currently serves as an Editor-In Chief for the Journal of Image and Graphics and is a member of the IET and ASR. His current research interests revolve around the application of pattern recognition techniques for power systems, acoustic noise analysis and the processing of ground-penetrating radar data.
Prof. Tianrui Li
IRSS Fellow
Director of the Key Lab of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Technique of Sichuan Province
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Biography: Dr Tianrui Li is a Professor and the Director of the Key Lab of Cloud Computing and Intelligent Technique of Sichuan Province, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Since 2000, he has co-edited 10 books, 12 special issues of international journals and published over 500 research papers (e.g., AI, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TEC, IEEE TFS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE ASLP, IEEE TIE, IEEE TC, IEEE TVT) in refereed journals and conferences (e.g., ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ICDE, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, UbiComp, WWW, ICDM, CIKM, EMNLP). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, area editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, editors of Information Fusion and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, etc. He is an IRSS Fellow and Steering Committee Chair (2023-2024), IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) member (2019-2020), IEEE CIS Senior Members Committee member (2018-2020), a senior member of ACM and IEEE, ACM SIGKDD member, Chair of IEEE CIS Chengdu Chapter (2013-2018) and Treasurer (2016-2021) and Secretary (2022-) of ACM SIGKDD China Chapter.
Prof. Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute-Alsace, France
Speech Title: Advanced architectures of Next Generation Wireless Networks
Abstract: Internet Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms are expected to enable wide spread use of real time services. New standards and new communication architectures allowing guaranteed QoS services are now developed. We will cover the issues of QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks, Internet access over 5G networks and discusses most emerging technologies in the area of networks and telecommunications such as IoT, SDN, Edge Computing and MEC networking. We will also present routing, security, baseline architectures of the inter-networking protocols and end-to-end traffic management issues.
Biography : Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA-Elsevier). He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.
Prof. José-Fernán Martínez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Speech Title: AFarCloud - Aggregate FARming in the CLOUD: the architecture, a success story
Abstract: AFarCloud provides a distributed platform for autonomous farming that will allow the integration and cooperation of agriculture Cyber Physical Systems in real-time to increase efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduce farm labour costs. This platform will be integrated with farm management software and will support monitoring and decision-making solutions based on big data and real time data mining techniques. The AFarCloud platform also makes farming robots accessible to more users by enabling farming vehicles to work in a cooperative mesh, thus opening up new applications and ensuring reusability, as heterogeneous standard vehicles can combine their capabilities in order to lift farmer revenue and reduce labour costs.
Biography: José-Fernán Martínez (jf.martinez@upm.es) is a pioneer and one of the most respected international scholars in the field of communication. He received his Ph.D. degree in Telematic Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Spain in 2001. He is a Full Professor at DTE (Department of Telematics and Electronics Engineering) and, director of Group of Next-Generation Networks and Services (GRyS: https://grys.etsist.upm.es) at the same University. He is graduated in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in 1993 where he started R&D tasks. Since 1993 to 1996, he works as technical responsible in research projects at National Telecommunications Company, and he was technical manager in his own Company S&H S.L. His main interest areas and expertise are ubiquitous computing and Internet of things (IoT); networked cooperating robots, new advanced services for wireless sensor & actuators networks (WSAN); cyber physical systems (CPS); next-generation telematic network and services for internet new generation; advanced telecom services, advanced software architectures, component-based distributed applications and intermediation platforms (middleware); and high performance and fault tolerant for resilient systems. He has authored several national and international publications included in the Science Citation Index in his interest areas, and he is technical reviser and chair of technical national and international events on Telematics, as well as member of different international and scientific committees. He has participated on several International and European Projects, as a responsible, such as: AFARCLOUD, DEMETER SWARMs, I3RES, e-GOTHAM, DEMANES, ACCUS WoW, uSWN, SODA, ESNA, DiYSE, LIFEWEAR, PERISEC, PROPSI, EXHAUSTIF, CLARA, ENISA, COMDIST, SMART, MATES, VITAL, SCARAB, MAIN-E, ALICE, and so on. He is responsible for different Spanish and European public-funded research projects and research contracts with different IT companies. Mr. Martinez has been invited as a research foreign expert on Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in China in 2011, being it one of the most important institutions on China. Also, He was working as a guest professor at Mälardalen University Sweden (MDH) at the School of Innovation, Design & Engineering (IDT), in Robotics and Avionics since August 2013 to 2018, after being invited as an international expert in Sweden. (http://www.etsist.upm.es/personal/jfmartin).