SPML 2023

Keynote Speakers

Prof. De-Shuang Huang (IEEE Fellow / IAPR Fellow / AAIA Fellow)

Tongji University, China
De-Shuang Huang is a Professor in Institute of Machine Learning and Systems Biology, EIT Institute for Advanced Study, China. He is currently the Fellow of the IEEE (IEEE Fellow), the Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR Fellow), the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and associated editors of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, etc. He founded the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) in 2005. ICIC has since been successfully held annually with him serving as General or Steering Committee Chair. He also served as the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2015) General Chair, July12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland, the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (IEEE-CIBCBC) Program Committee Chair, May 21-24, 2014, Honolulu, USA. He has published over 470 papers in international journals, international conferences proceedings, and book chapters. Particularly, he has published over 240 SCI indexed papers. His Google Scholar citation number is over 20300 times and H index 76. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics.

 

Prof. Jie Lu AO (IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Laureate Fellow)
Director of Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in the field of computational intelligence, primarily known for her work in concept drift, fuzzy transfer learning, recommender systems, and decision support systems. She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. Currently, Prof Lu is the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She has published 500 papers in leading journals and conferences; won 10 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects as first chief investigator, and over 20 industry projects; and supervised 50 doctoral students to completion. Prof Lu serves as Editor-In-Chief for Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. She is a recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She is the recipient of two IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards (2019 and 2022), NeurIPS2022 Outstanding Paper Award, Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019), Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award (2022), and Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2023.

 

Prof. Yiyu Yao

University of Regina, Canada (IRSS Fellow)
Yiyu Yao is a professor of computer science with the Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Canada. His research interests include three-way decision, granular computing, web intelligence, rough sets, formal concept analysis, information retrieval, and data mining. He proposed a theory of three-way decision, a decision-theoretic rough set model, and a triarchic theory of granular computing. He has published over 500 papers. He was selected as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate from 2015 to 2019. His Google Scholar citation number is over 36,000, with an h-index 97 and i10-index 331.

Prof. Chin-Chen Chang (IEEE Fellow/ IEE Fellow)

Feng Chia University

Professor C.C. Chang obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University. He's first degree is Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and master degree is Master of Science in computer and decision sciences. Both were awarded in National Tsing Hua University. Dr. Chang served in National Chung Cheng University from 1989 to 2005. His current title is Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, from Feb. 2005.
Prior to joining Feng Chia University, Professor Chang was an associate professor in Chiao Tung University, professor in National Chung Hsing University, chair professor in National Chung Cheng University. He had also been Visiting Researcher and Visiting Scientist to Tokyo University and Kyoto University, Japan. During his service in Chung Cheng, Professor Chang served as Chairman of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dean of College of Engineering, Provost and then Acting President of Chung Cheng University and Director of Advisory Office in Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
Professor Chang's specialties include, but not limited to, data engineering, database systems, computer cryptography and information security. A researcher of acclaimed and distinguished services and contributions to his country and advancing human knowledge in the field of information science, Professor Chang has won many research awards and honorary positions by and in prestigious organizations both nationally and internationally. He is currently a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEE, UK. On numerous occasions, he was invited to serve as Visiting Professor, Chair Professor, Honorary Professor, Honorary Director, Honorary Chairman, Distinguished Alumnus, Distinguished Researcher, Research Fellow by universities and research institutes. He also published over 1,100 papers in Information Sciences. In the meantime, he participates actively in international academic organizations and performs advisory work to government agencies and academic organizations.

 

Prof. Xiaofei Wang

Tianjin University, China

Xiaofei Wang is currently a professor in Tianjin University, China. He received M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University in 2008 and 2013 respectively. He received the B.S. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2005. He is the winner of the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2017. His current research interests are social- aware multimedia service in cloud computing, cooperative backhaul caching and traffic offloading in mobile content- centric networks.
He presides and participates in 10 research projects of South Korea and Canadian, the projects amount is more than 3 million dollars. He has published more than 66 papers in International journal and society (30 papers as the first author or corresponding author), including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Network, IEEE INFOCOM, etc., among which 32 papers are included in SCI (15 papers as the first author or corresponding author), 5 papers are included in JCR-1, 7 papers are in JCR-2, and 9 papers are in JCR-3, total impact factor is about 105, recommendation paper from the CCF (A-5,B-6,C-20), ESI high cited 3 papers, WoS cited 377 times, Google reference is about 1300, and H - index is 15.