General Chair: Prof.Dr. Zhengtao Yu Prof. Zhengtao Yu, Ph.D., is the dean of
the Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, the director of
the Provincial Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, and the
Chief Professor of KUST innovation team of Intelligent Information
Processing. Prof.Dr.John Wang John Wang, Ph.D, works in the Department of
Information Management and Business Analytics at Montclair State
University, USA. Having received a scholarship award, he came to the USA
and completed his PhD in operations research from Temple University.
Due to his extraordinary contributions, Prof. Wang has been honored with
two special range adjustments in 2006 and 2009 respectively. He has
published over 100 refereed papers and more than ten books. He has also
developed several computer software programs based on his research
findings. Overseas Advisory Chair: Prof.Dr. Kevin Deng Prof.Dr. Kevin Deng had worked for General Motors R&D Center in USA as a senior researcher since 1996. Prof.Dr. Feng Qiao Prof. Feng Qiao received his B.Eng. Degree in
electrical engineering and M.S.E. Degree in systems engineering from the
Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1982 and 1987,
respectively; and his PhD in intelligent modelling and control from the
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK in 2005. During the
period between 1987 and 2001, he worked at the Automation Research
Institute of Metallurgical Industry, Beijing, China, as a senior
engineer in electrical and computer engineering. He is currently a
Professor at Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang
JianZhu University (SJZU), Shenyang, China. His research interests
include modelling and simulation, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks,
nonlinear systems, stochastic systems, sliding mode control, robust
control, adaptive control, process control, structural vibration
control, fault diagnosis and robotic manipulation. Currently Professor
Qiao is acting as the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, a member of editorial board of the International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, and he serves on many international conferences as IPC and OPC members Publication Chair: Prof.Dr. Srikanta Patnaik Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University,
Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on
Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and
supervised 12 Ph. D. theses and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the area
of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering.
Dr. Patnaik has published more than 60 research papers in international
journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and
edited 12 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading
international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.. Dr.
Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods” sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany. Organising Chair: Prof.Dr.Tao Shen Prof. Tao Shen is a doctoral supervisor in
School of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of
Science and Technology. He had received his master’s degree and Ph.D.
from Illinois Institute of Technology in USA, bachelor degree from
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is an
executive director and Deputy Secretary-General of Youth Committee of
Chinese Materials Institute, a fellow of Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers(IEEE) and China Computer Federation(CCF). He is a
peer-reviewer with National Natural Science Foundation of China, a
high-caliber talent accredited by provincial government of Yunnan
province. He participated in over 10 research projects, including
projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,
Applied Basic Research Programs of Yunnan Province, and Science
Foundation of Department of Education, Yunnan Province. He has published
more than 40 papers indexed by SCI/EI, 2 monographs, and held numerous
patents and copyrights. His main research fields including: Terahertz
technologies and their applications, Artificial Intelligence, Data
Mining and Smart Power Grids. Prof.Dr.Nilanjan Dey Dr. Nilanjan Dey, is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He is a Visiting Professor at Duy Tan University, Vietnam, He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He has authored/edited more than 55 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press, and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, Associate Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) – Young ICT Group. Recently, he has been awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015-17). Prof.Dr. Xilong Qu Prof. Xilong Qu is the dean of School of
Information Technology and Management, Hunan University of Finance and
Economics, he is also the master degree student advisor for both
Xiangtan University and Hunan Institute of Engineering. Prof. Xilong Qu
received his Ph.D on Southwest Jiaotong University, he finished his
post-doctor study in Post-doctoral Research Center of Computer Science
and Technology, South China University of Technology. Prof. Xilong Qu is
the young core teacher of Hunan and a member of “121” talents program
of Hunan. Associate Prof. Jian Wang Jian Wang is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science and Master Degree Student Supervisor in Kunming
University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S. degree in
Computer Application from Kunming University of Science and Technology
in 1999, M.S. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in
2002. Finance Chair: Conference Secretary: Technical Program Committee:Organizing Committee
Dean, School of Information Engineering and Automation
Kunming University of Science and Technology ,China
He is graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with Ph.D. on
Computer Application Technologies in 2005. He visited Purdue University
as a visiting scholar in 2009. He has over 100 publications in
international journals and conferences, holds numerous patents and
copyrights. He had won numerous awards including the first prize and the
third prize of Yunnan Province Science and Technology Progress Award,
the second prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award.
Prof. Yu is specialized in Natural Language Processing, Information
Retrieval, and Information Extraction. His research interests include:
Chinese corpus and Southeast Asia minority languages corpus
construction, linguistic information processing, question-answering
system, cross-language information retrieval, multi-lingual machine
translation, cross-language public opinion analysis.
Dept. of Information Management & Business Analytics
School of Business Montclair State University, USA
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management and International Journal of Applied Management Science.
Also, he is the Editor of Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and
Optimization (five-volume), Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts,
Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (six-volume) and the Editor of
the Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 1st (two-volume) and
2nd (four-volume). His long-term research goal is on the synergy of
operations research, data mining and cybernetics.
Distinguished Professor of Chinese 1,000 Talents Programme
Room 404, School of Transportation Science and Engineering BUAA
He was a three-time recipient of the “Charles McCuen” Award, the highest
research award in General Motors, and a twice-recipient of the `Boss'
Kettering Award, the most prestigious award in GM for technical
invention and innovation. He briefly served as an acting director of
Hong Kong Automotive Parts & Accessories R&D Center in 2010.
Currently he serves as the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems and Associate Editor of International Journal of Vehicle Design,
and was the associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Vehicular
Technology . He was also the Chair of the Transportation Track of
2010-2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conferences respectively, and
Technical Program Chair of FISITA on Chassis Systems and Integration
Technology, etc.
He holds numerous patents and is the authors/co-authors of over 100
publications in international journals and conferences. He is also
invited keynote speakers of numerous conferences and forums worldwide.
His primary research interests are in electric and intelligent vehicles,
dynamics and controls, and modeling and simulation technologies, etc.
Shenyang JianZhu University
Shenyang, China
Professor, SOA University, Bhubaneswar
& Chair Professor , Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar Odisha, India
Vice Dean,School of Information Engineering and Automation
Kunming University of Science and Technology,Kunming,China.
Department of Information Technology,
Techno India College of Technology,Kolkata, INDIA.
School of Information Technology and Management
Hunan University of Finance and Economics,Changsha,Hunan,China
Prof.Xilong Qu joined 4 projects from the National High Technology
Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) and the National
Natural Science Foundation of China, also he led the National Natural
Science Foundation of Hunan, the Research Foundation of Education Bureau
of Hunan Province, China and the National Science Foundation for
Post-doctoral Scientists of China for 3, 1 and 1 times respectively.
Prof. Xilong Qu published 4 books 35 articles (5 articles are indexed by
SCI and the rest are indexed by EI). Prof. Xilong Qu is also invited
for chairs and keynote speakers of numerous conferences and forums in
China.
Department of Computer Science
School of Information Engineering and Automation
Kunming University of Science and Technology,China
Jian Wang is an experienced teacher and he has received a number of
teaching competition awards and Exemplary Teacher Award. In the past six
years, he has joined several projects funded by Natural Science
Foundation of China, won 1 grant from Yunnan province natural science
foundation, 1 grant from natural science foundation of education
department of Yunnan province, and participated in many other basic
research projects. He has published 20+ academic papers, 16 of which are
indexed by EI and holds numerous patents and copyrights.
His research interest centers on software engineering and artificial
intelligence. Specifically, he works on areas such as Software Process,
esp. component-based software development and evolution, Intelligent
computing & machine learning.
Silai Zhou
Bin Hu