Speakers    

kEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Kaizhu Huang
Duke Kunshan University, China

Bio-sketch: Kaizhu Huang works on trustworthy AI, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He is Tenured Full Professor and Director of Data Science Research Center, at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Prof. Huang obtained his PhD degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He worked in Fujitsu Research Centre, CUHK, University of Bristol, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2012. He was the recipient of the 2011 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award. He published more than 250 international conference papers including 130+ SCI indexed journal papers and 60+ CCF-A or IEEE/ACM transactions. He received best (runner-up) paper or book award about 10 times in major AI conferences. In particular, he has recently received the 2024 IEEE ICDM 10 Years High-Impact Paper Award. He acts as Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier CSSI and serves as associated editors/advisory board members in 6 international journals and book series (e.g. Pattern Recognition Journal, and Neural Network Journal). He was invited as keynote/tutorial speaker in more than 50 international conferences or workshops.

 

Prof. Huiyu Zhou  
University of Leicester, UK

Speech Title: Tooth segmentation and datasets in oral health (Downoad abstract)

Bio-sketch: Prof. 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 600 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of NAAI Distinguished AI Scholar and Exemplary Awards. 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.