Committee
Honorary Chair
Prof. Witold Pedrycz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Biography:
Witold Pedrycz is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He 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 a Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, an 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 the 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve computational intelligence, granular computing, and machine learning. He serves as an editor-in-chief of Information Sciences and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and co-editor-in-chief of Granular Computing and Journal of Data, Information and Management.
Conference General Chair
Prof. Zabih (Fary) Ghassemlooy, Fellow of OSA, SMIEEE, Fellow of IET, Northumbria University, UK
Biography:
Professor Zabih Ghassemlooy (Fellow, OPTICA; Fellow, IET; Senior Member, IEEE; CEng, BSc (Hons.) MMU (1981), MSc (1984) and PhD (1987) Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 Sheffield Hallam University and 2004- Northumbria University, UK, and is currently Head of Photonics Technology Laboratory and Optical Communications Research Group. Research Fellow (2016-2022) and Distinguished Professor (2015-2022) at Chinese Academy of Science, Vice-Chair of EU Cost Actions IC1101 (2011-16) and CA19111, 2020-2024. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25, supervised 75 PhDs, 12 Research Fellows and with over 990 publications (429 journals and 8 books). Research interest: optical wireless communications, free space optics, visible light communications, and hybrid RF-OWC. Chief Editor: British J. of Applied Science and Technology and Intern. J. of Optics and Applications. Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group (Optics in Digital Systems-2018-).
Prof. Frank Werner, Faculty of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Germany
Areas of Expertise:
scheduling, in particular development of exact and approximate algorithms; stability investigations is discrete optimization; scheduling with interval processing times; complexity investigations for scheduling problems; train scheduling; graph theory; logistics; supply chains; packing; simulation and applications
Prof. Wenbing Zhao, IEEE Senior Member, Cleveland State University, USA
Biography:
Wenbing Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, in 2002.,He joined Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, OH, USA, in 2004, as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CSU. He is the author of two research monographs titled Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Wiley-Scrivener, 2004) and From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain (Wiley-Scrivener, 2021). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. His current research interests include dependable distributed computing and human-centered computing.,Dr. Zhao has served on the organizing and technical committees of numerous IEEE conferences. He has received the 2018 and 2020 IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor Award. He is an Associate Editor ofIEEE Access.
Publication Chairs
Prof. Wendong Xiao, IEEE Senior Member, The University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Biography:
Wendong Xiao is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, and director of the Collaborative Intelligent Sensing and Control Decision Laboratory at the School of Automation, University of Science and Technology Beijing.Professor Xiao serves as a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Interactive Wearable Technology and Equipment Expert Committee, the deputy director of the Intelligent IoT System Professional Committee of the China Simulation Federation, the secretary-general of the Health Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, consultant for the direction of active health in the National 14th Five-Year Plan, consultant of National Major Project of Modernization Technology and Equipment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reviewer of National Engineering Research Center of National Development and Reform Commission, reviewer of Intelligent Manufacturing Major Project of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, reviewer of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, responsible expert and reviewer of National Key R&D Program Project, and expert of Science and Technology of Military Commission Commissioned.
Professor Xiao has long been committed to technological innovation, development and application promotion in wearable computing, health intelligent perception, wireless intelligent perception, big data processing, Internet of Things and information platform construction, etc; he chaired a number of landmark projects, such as key technology research on intelligent interactive services for healthy elderly care, user behavior analysis based on big data mining, application demonstration of the Internet of Things for smart elderly care by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and optimization design of energy harvesting wireless sensor networks; his projects have been supported by a number of national projects and enterprise cooperation projects, such as the National Key Research and Development Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Singapore Science and Technology Agency. He has published more than 200 academic papers in domestic and foreign journals and conferences, of which nearly 100 are included in SCI.
Prof. Shuwen Xu, IEEE Senior Member, Xidian University, China
Biography:
Shuwen Xu (IEEE Senior Member) was born in Huangshan city in Anhui, China. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electronic engineering, from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He worked at the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, after that. He worked as a visiting professor in Mcmaster University in 2017 and 2018, Canada. He is currently a professor with the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. He is also the vice director of National Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding and the Director of radar signal processing and data processing Department. His research interests are in the fields of radar target detection, statistical Learning, and SAR image processing.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic, IEEE Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Biography:
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director and President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Prof. Pascal LORENZ, University of Haute Alsace, France
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 Alcatel-Alsthom. He has been 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 an 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 a senior member of the IEEE, an IARIA fellow and a member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and given tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.
Prof. Tarek Ismail Mohamed, College of Mass Communication at Ajman University, U.A.E.
Biography:
Tarek Ismail Mohamed is a professor of product design by computer at the College of Mass Communication at Ajman University, U.A.E. He is a specialist in visualizing 2d and 3d Designs by Computer. He worked as a 3d design educator by computer at the Product Design Department at the College of Applied Arts, Helwan University – Egypt, from 1990 to 1996. Then he moved to Germany to get a Ph.D. in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts (H.B.K.) in Braunschweig –from 1996 to 1999. The Ph.D. theme entitled "Establishing an educational form organization program given the utilization of computers." He worked in Saudi Arabia Universities in Art Pedagogy, Education Technology, Computer and Design departments at King Khaled University and Al Qassim University. He participated in a lot of visual and product design and project expeditions. Later he became the head of the Computer and Design Department. He got a full professor of 3d Product Design in 2009. In 2010, he started his work in the Graphic Design department at the College of Mass Communication at Ajman University in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Tarek Ismail has published several books on Product Design, Design by Computer, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Interactive Design, Design Basics, Virtual Reality & 3D design, Digital Multimedia and Modern Technology, Artificial Design, and Design Theory. In 2019, Prof. Dr. Tarek Ismail got a 3d product design consultant position from the Egyptian Designers Syndicate, which qualifies him to manage and direct many activities, projects, and design expertise. He published several papers about the product, graphic design, and visual communication in International Conferences and Journals indexed by Scopus (QI, Q2). He studied, visited, and lectured in Germany, Egypt, the U.S.A., Japan, Turkey, Kuwait, Emirates, the Netherlands, Spain, and Greece. Finally, he got a grant from Microsoft Azur for Covid-19 Research; the grant topic is "Applying the health criteria in everyday product design in light of the coronavirus pandemic." He is a reviewer and editor in several international journals. Prof. Dr., Tarek Ismail Mohamed College of Mass Communication Ajman University The United Arab Emirates.
Technical Program Committee
Prof. Fangfang Jian, Henan University of Science and Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Ahmad Zhafran Ahmad Mazlan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Md Khaja Mohiddin, Bhilai Institute of Technology Raipur, India
Assoc. Prof. Omar DIB, Wenzhou-Kean University, China
Assoc. Prof. Rajeev Tiwari, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India
Assoc. Prof. Sahil Verma, Lovely Professional University, Philippines
Assoc. Prof. Muhamad Bin Mansor, University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Saman Abdanan Mehdizadeh, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Iran
Assist. Prof. Morteza Mohammadzaheri, Sultan Qaboos University,Australia
Assist. Prof. Subhojit Dawn, Siliguri Institute of Technology, India
Senior Lecture Dimitrios Kollias, University of Greenwich, Britain
Senior Lecturer Aslina Baharum, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Prof. Zhe Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China
Prof. Galina G. Kashevarova, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia
Prof. Johan DEBAYLE, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Etienne, France
Prof. Sandeep Saxena, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology Greater Noida, India
Assoc. Prof. Marina Yusoff, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Md Mozasser Rahman CEng, Universiti Tun Hossein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Sharifah Sakinah Syed Ahmad, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Tian Soon Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. M. A. Teeti, East China University of Technology, China
Senior Lecturer Ariffin NOR HAPIZA, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia