Speakers    

kEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Derong Liu
IEEE Fellow, INNS Fellow, IAPR Fellow  

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Bio-sketch: Derong Liu received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA, in 1994. He became a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. He was selected for the “100 Talents Program” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and he served as the Associate Director of The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation, from 2010 to 2016. He has published 13 books. He received the International Neural Network Society’s Gabor Award in 2018 and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Network Pioneer Award in 2022. He has been named a highly cited researcher by Clarivate since 2017. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2010 to 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the International Neural Network Society, a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition, and a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).

 

Prof. Huiyu Zhou  

University of Leicester, UK

Bio-sketch: Dr. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published over 380 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", “MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award”, “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award” and was nominated for “ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award” and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize". His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, Invest NI, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry. Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/people/huiyu-zhou.

Prof. Yung-Cheol Byu  

Jeju National University, South Korea

Bio-sketch: Dr. Yung-Cheol Byun received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Yonsei University in 1995 and 2001, respectively, and his B.S. from Jeju National University in 1993. He worked as a special lecturer at Samsung Electronics and SDS from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a senior researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). He was promoted to join Jeju National University as an assistant professor in 2003. Now, he is a full professor in the Computer Engineering department at the university. His research interests include the areas of AI and machine learning, pattern recognition, blockchain and deep-learning-based applications, big data and knowledge discovery, time-series data analysis and prediction, image processing, medical image applications, and recommendation systems.