General Chair
Yu-Dong Zhang
Professor, IEEE Senior Member, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Chair in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, University of Leicester, UK.
Research field：Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks; Graph convolutional networks; Attention networks; Explainable AI; Biomedical image analysis; Bio-inspired computing; Pattern recognition; Transfer learning; Medical sensor.
Prof. Yudong Zhang serves as a Chair Professor at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is included in World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University from 2020 to 2022. He won Information Fusion 2022 Best Paper Award, etc. His three papers are included in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in the journals: Ann Oncol, JACC, JAMA Psychiatry, IJIM, Inf Fus, IEEE TFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE IoTJ, Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE SJ, ACM TKDD, ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE JTEHM, ACM TMIS, etc. There are more than 60 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications. His citation reached 24192 in Google Scholar (h-index 86). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and academic grants from NIH, Royal Society, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Hope, British Council, Fight for Sight, and NSFC. He has given over 120 invited talks at international conferences, universities, and companies. He has served as (Co-)Chair for more than 60 international conferences and workshops (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). His research outputs have been reported by more than 50 news press, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Physics World, UK Today News, EurekAlert! Science News, India Times, Association of Optometrists (AOP) news, Medical Xpress, etc.
Shunli Wang
Professor, IET Fellow, IEEE Member, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China.
Research field：Modeling and state estimation for energy storage systems; New energy measurement and control; Optimization strategy; Energy management; Battery system modelling.
Wang Shunli, professor, doctoral supervisor, vice president of the Smart Energy Storage Research Institute, academic dean of the School of Electric Power of Inner Mongolia University of Technology, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, IET Fellow, IEEE Member, academic leader of the China Electrical Safety and Quality Testing Center, one of the first academic and technical leaders of China Science and Technology City, and one of the top 2% scientists in the world. He mainly focuses on the major strategic needs of the new energy and energy storage system industry, relying on the Academician Expert Workstation of Large-Scale Energy Storage Technology, the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Large-Scale Energy Storage Technology, and the Smart Energy Storage Research Institute to focus on the research of green and low-carbon energy storage for smart grids. Professor Wang has published 258 SCI core library retrieval articles, 173 articles in JCR Q1 and TOP journals, 34 highly cited/hot articles, 52 authorized invention patents/standards/software copyrights, 7 books published in internationally renowned publishers such as Elsevier and IET, and won 7 awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including 2 international gold awards. He has served as the chairman of international conferences 27 times, 4 editors of international journals, and won 13 scientific and technological awards such as the Gold Award at the 48th Geneva Invention Exhibition. He is also a member of the New Energy and Energy Storage System Control Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a member of the System Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a member of the System Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Automation Society, a senior member of the Chinese Automation Society, and a member of the China Power Supply Society.
Co-Chair
Jingsha He
Professor, Beijing University of Technology, China.
Research field：Computer networks; Information safety; 3D printing; Big data and cloud computing security; Digital forensics.
Graduated from University of Maryland, he has worked in IBM Corp., MCI Communications Corp., GRIC Communications, Inc., etc. in America, and got 15 American patents for invention. In 2003, he was introduced to Beijing University of Technology. At present, he has published 261 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and got 58 Chinese patents for invention, presided over more than 30 projects as well, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, 863 project, etc.
Yanling Cai
Associate professor, Master supervisor, Zhengzhou University, China.
Research field：Applicable technology innovation of digital economy and its promising integration with manufacturing industry and supply chain commerce; Product innovation strategy and its market planning, with focus on smart products; Innovation policy planning at metropolitan level with designed technology planning roadmap in any emerging industry; Intensive case analysis of various scenarios with application of Big Data, AI, Industry IoT, etc., under the macro-viewpoint of digital economy.
Dr. CAI Yan-Ling (Jeffrey), is currently working with the School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, PR China, as an associate professor. He received his PhD degree in 2008 in the domain of Manufacturing System and Technology Innovation, conferred by National University of Singapore (NUS), with joint collaboration of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) program. His research interest covers Product Planning, Healthcare Management and Telemedicine System, and E-commerce Platform Enterprise Strategy, as well as Manufacturing System etc. He has published 40+ journal papers and conference papers within his research interest, and among these journals are included CIRP Annuals – Manufacturing Technology, Computers in Industry, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, etc. Meanwhile, he serves as editor or reviewer of a couple of international academic journals, like International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (IJAMT), Journal of Engineering Design (JED), Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management (AIEM), etc. He also works as principal research scientist with Henan Telemedicine Center of China (HTCC), and as deputy director with Henan Digital Healthcare Research Center (HDHRC).
Organizing Committee Chair
Qingsheng Feng, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Ronghua Li, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
International Scientific Committee Chair
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Zhiwei Gao, University of Northumbria, UK
International Scientific Committee Member
Abid Yahya, Faculty of Engineering & Technology BIUST, Botswana
Alankrita Aggarwal, Apex Institute of Technology, Chandigarh University, India
Ajay B. Gadicha, P. R. Pote Patil College of Engineering and Management, India
Amine Khald, Université Kasdi Merbah-Ouargla, Algeria
Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Arun Balodi, Dayananda Sagar University, India
Arup Neogi, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Azlan Mohd Zain, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Bimal K. Bose, The University of Tennessee, USA
Biplob Ray, Central Queensland University, Australia
Boris Andrievsky, Baltic State Technical University, Russia
Cheng Siong Chin, Newcastle University in Singapore, Singapore
Chinmay Chakraborty, Birla Institute of Technology, India
Chunhua Liu, City Unviersity of Hong Kong, China
Danilo Avola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Deepak Kumar Panda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India
Enrique Ciro Quispe Oqueña, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia
George K. Adam, University of Thessaly, Greece
Hamed Taherdoost, University Canada West, Canada
Hui Na Chua, Sunway University, Malaysia
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Jamshed Iqbal, University of Hull, UK
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Jawwad Nasar Chattha, University of Management and Technology, Pakistan
Jay Kumar Pandey, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, India
Jiliang Zhang, Northeastern University, China
Jing Fan, Heilongjiang International University, China
Joachim Holtz, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Jingyu Liu, Harbin Normal University, China
Joarder Kamruzzaman, Federation University, Australia
Kaya Kuru, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Kali Charan Rath, GIET University, India
K. Thamizhmaran, Govt. College of Engineering, Bodinayakkanur, India
Kuan Yew Wong, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France
Leila Ghomri, University of Mostaganem, Algeria
Lin Wang, Dalian Jiaotong University, China
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Luca Silvestri, Niccolò Cusano University, Italy
Luigi Fortuna, University of Catania, Italy
Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia
Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy
Marius Branzila, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi, Romania
Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Gunma University, Japan
Meng Joo Er, Dalian Maritime University, China
M. A. Jabbar, Vardhaman College of Engineering, India
Martin Cech, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Michael Tribelsky, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Mihaela Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Mohamed A. A. Mohamed, University of Warwick, UK
Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Mohan Lal Kolhe, University of Agder, Norway
Mohd. Faisal Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Monica Dutta, Chitkara University, India
Muhammad Firoz Mridha, American International University-Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Muhammad Usman, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Neeraj Gupta, NIT Srinagar, India
Nilgun Baydogan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Omer K. Jasim, University of Fallujah, Iraq
Omid Mahdi Ebadati E., Kharazmi University, Iran
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Pooja Singh, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Navi Mumbai, India
Raffaele Di Gregorio, University in Ferrara, Italy
Rahul Kar, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, India
Rajdeep Chakraborty, Medi-Caps University, India
Samrat Ray, International Institute of Management Studies, India
Seyed Mohammad Ayyoubzadeh, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
S. Masoud Barakati, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran
Shashikant Patil, Atlas SkillTech University, India
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Christ University, India
Smain Femmam, UHA University, France
Sunday Adeola Ajagbe, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
Tokeer Ahmad, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
Umesh C. Pati, National Institute of Technology, India
Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Venkataramaiah Gude, GP Technologies LLC, USA
Vinayak Ashok Bharadi, Finolex Academy of Management and Technology, India
Wanwan Li, The University of Tulsa, USA
Yang Han, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
Yilun Shang, Northumbria University, UK
Yutian Liu, Shandong University, China
Sponsors
Beijing University of Technology
Dalian Jiaotong University
Northeastern University
Zhengzhou University
University of Haute - Alsace – France
Vardhaman College of Engineering, India
Inner Mongolia University of Technology
