Keynote Speakers
Prof. Kun Yang(Personal
Page)
Member of Academia
Europaea (MAE)欧洲科学院院士,
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow,
ACM Distinguished
Scientist
Chair Professor in the
School of Computer Science
& Electronic Engineering
Head of the Network
Convergence Laboratory
(NCL)
University of
Essex, UK
Bio: Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, leading the Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL). He is also an affiliated professor of UESTC. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, future Internet and edge computing. In particular he is interested in energy aspects of future communication systems such as 6G, promoting energy self-sustainability via both energy efficiency (green communications and networking) and energy harvesting (wireless charging). He has managed research projects funded by UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020, and industries. He has published 400+ papers and filed 20 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE ComMag, TNSE, WCL, TVT). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc. He has been a Judge of GSMA GLOMO Award at World Mobile Congress – Barcelona since 2019. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Prof. Qingfu Zhang(Personal
Page)
IEEE Fellow
Chair Professor of Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong, China
Bio: Qingfu Zhang is Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests include evolutionary computation, optimization, neural networks, data analysis, and their applications. Professor Zhang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the IEEE Transactions Cybernetics. MOEA/D, a multiobjective optimization algorithm developed by him and his students, is one of the two most used multiobjective optimization framework. He was awarded the 2010 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award. He has been in the list of SCI highly cited researchers for five consecutive years, from 2016 to 2020. He is an IEEE fellow.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas
Head of Intelligent
Systems Research Centre
Aurel Vlaicu
University of Arad,
Romania
Bio: Valentina
E. Balas is currently Full
Professor in the Department
of Automatics and Applied
Software at the Faculty of
Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu”
University of Arad, Romania.
She holds a Ph.D. Cum
Laude, in Applied
Electronics and
Telecommunications from
Polytechnic University of
Timisoara. Dr. Balas is
author of more than 400
research papers in refereed
journals and International
Conferences. Her research
interests are in Intelligent
Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft
Computing, Smart Sensors,
Information Fusion, Modeling
and Simulation.
She is
the Editor-in Chief to
International Journal of
Advanced Intelligence
Paradigms (IJAIP) and to
International Journal of
Computational Systems
Engineering (IJCSysE),
member in Editorial Board
member of several national
and international journals
and is evaluator expert for
national, international
projects and PhD Thesis.
Dr. Balas is the Head of
Intelligent Systems Research
Centre in Aurel Vlaicu
University of Arad and Head
of the Department of
International Relations in
the same university.
She
served as General Chair of
the International Workshop
Soft Computing and
Applications (SOFA) in ten
editions organized in the
interval 2005-2022 and held
in Romania and Hungary.
Dr. Balas participated in
many international
conferences as Organizer,
Honorary Chair, Session
Chair, member in Steering,
Advisory or International
Program Committees and
Keynote Speaker.
Recently
she was working in a
national project with EU
funding support:
BioCell-NanoART = Novel
Bio-inspired Cellular
Nano-Architectures - For
Digital Integrated Circuits,
3M Euro from National
Authority for Scientific
Research and Innovation.
She is a member of European
Society for Fuzzy Logic and
Technology (EUSFLAT), member
of Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM) and a Senior Member
IEEE, member in Technical
Committee – Fuzzy Systems
(IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society), chair
of the Task Force 14 in
Technical Committee –
Emergent Technologies (IEEE
CIS), member in Technical
Committee – Soft Computing
(IEEE SMCS). She is member
in the Committee of IEEE
Romania Section as
Volunteers Training
Coordinator and vice chair
of IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society Chapter
– CIS 11. During the
interval 2021-2022 she was a
member of IEEE European
Public Policy Committee
Working Group on ICT. From
May 2023 Dr. Balas is
associate member of Romanian
Academy of Scientists.
Dr. Balas was past Vice
President (awards) of IFSA -
International Fuzzy Systems
Association Council
(2013-2015), is a Joint
Secretary of the Governing
Council of Forum for
Interdisciplinary
Mathematics (FIM), - A
Multidisciplinary Academic
Body, India. She is the
recipient of the "Tudor
Tanasescu" Prize from the
Romanian Academy for
contributions in the field
of soft computing methods
(2019) and “Stefan Odobleja”
Prize from Romanian Academy
of Scientists (2023).
Assoc. Prof. Masnida Hussin
IEEE Senior Member
University Putra
Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia
Bio: Ts.
Dr. Masnida Hussin (Senior
Member, IEEE) is an
Associate Professor at the
Department of Communication
Technology and Network,
Faculty of Computer Science
and Information Technology,
University Putra Malaysia
(UPM), Malaysia. She
received her Ph.D. degree
from the University of
Sydney, Australia, in 2012.
She is a member of the
Malaysia Board of
Professional Technologies
(MBOT), which has the title
Technologies (Ts). Her main
research interests are in
quality of services (QoS),
green computing, and
resource management for
large-scale distributed
computing such as Cloud,
Edge and Fog computing.
Masnida has authored and
coauthored a number of
research papers published in
refereed journals and
conference proceedings and
also serves on the editorial
board of several highly
reputation international
journals. Besides her
research work, she has also
been appointed coordinator
for the Master in Computer
Network since 2012. Masnida
becomes a subject-matter
expert in Cloud security in
collaboration with the Cyber
Security Malaysia (CSM)
agency. There are also
Memoranda of Understanding
(MoU) and Non-Disclosure
Agreements (NDA) with
private organizations that
are under her
responsibility. She also did
research for teaching and
learning (T&L) scopes and
received several awards from
T&L competitions and
appreciation. She has
teaching experience spanning
more than 10 years in the
areas of Computer Network
and Parallel & Distributed
computing. Masnida has
secured several research
grants in the areas of
computer networks and T&L.
She also actively
participates in other
research grants with her
colleagues. With her busy
role as an academician and
researcher, she also has
time to join community
programs, one of which is
the Digital Entrepreneurship
Workshop for Small-Medium
Enterprise Businesses that
was held in Muar, Johor,
Malaysia.
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