Speakers

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Prof. Simon K.S.Cheung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong

( IET fellow,  IMA fellow, BCS fellow, HKIE fellow, HKCS fellow)

Dr.  Simon K.S. Cheung is currently the Director of IT at Hong Kong  Metropolitan University. He received his BSc and PhD  in Computer Science and MPA from City University of Hong Kong and  University of Hong Kong respectively, and was admitted as IET fellow,  IMA fellow, BCS fellow, HKIE fellow, HKCS fellow. He is active in  research with 200 publications in the form of books, book  chapters, journal articles and conference papers in two distinct areas,  namely, technology in education, and software and system engineering.  Award in recognition of his achievements include the Outstanding  Research Publication Award from Hong Kong Metropolitan  University, 1st class Achievement in Computer and IT from Shenzhen  Science and Technology Association, Outstanding CIO Award from Hong Kong  IT Joint Council, and Honoree for IT Excellence from CIO Asia.

Prof. Johan Debayle, MINES Saint-Etienne, France

(Senior Member of IEEE)

Johan Debayle received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of image processing and analysis, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In the beginning of 2006, he joined the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) as a postdoctoral fellow in the field of biomedical image analysis. Since 2007, he is an Associate Professor in the Mathematical Imaging and Pattern Analysis Group within the SPIN Center and the LGF Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5307 at the ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne’ in France. In 2012, he received the French Habilitation degree (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in the field of mathematical imaging from the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne in France. He was a Visiting Scholar for 3 months in 2015 at the University of Kaiserslautern/ITWM Fraunhofer, Germany. He has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member in 2015. Since 2015, he is the Head of the Department PMDM of the LGF Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5307. His research interests include adaptive image processing, pattern analysis and stochastic geometry.

Assoc. Prof. T. Velmurugan, University of Madras, India

Dr. T. Velmurugan is working as an Associate Professor in the PG and Research Department of Computer Science and Applications, Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College, Chennai-600106, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Madras. He has 30 years of teaching experience. He guided more than 300 M.Phil., Research Scholars. Also, he guided 23 Ph.D. scholars and currently guiding 6 Ph.D. scholars. He has published more than 175 articles in SCOPUS and SCI indexed journals. He elected and served as a Senate Member from Academic Council, University of Madras. He has a lot of administrative experiences. He served as advisory board member to many academic institutions in and around Tamil Nadu, India. He was an invited speaker and keynote speaker for many international conferences around the world. He served as a nominated Senate Member in the Middle East University, Dubai, UAE for a period of three years. He is a member in Board of studies for many autonomous institutions and Universities. Also, he organized international Conferences and workshops. In addition, he was a resource person for various national workshops entitled "Scientific Research Article Writing and Journal Publications" and many of the recent topics in Computer Science. He is an Editorial Board Member of 10 International Journals. He also a reviewer in many peer reviewed journals like Elsevier, Springer, IEEE and IOSPress Journals etc. He is the Chair person for the Government of Tamil Nadu State for XII standard book titled as “Electronics and Hardwares”. Further, he is a visiting faculty for M.Phil. Course for various universities throughout India. His H index is 21 and i10 index is 31. His area of specialization includes Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Network Security, Big Data Analytics, Data Science and etc.

Prof. Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute-Alsace, France

(Senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow)

Pascal Lorenz 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 at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is 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 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 senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.

Prof. Guohua Xie, Xiamen University, China

Dr. Guohua Xie obtained his Ph.D. degree  from Jilin University (China) in 2011, working on OLED microdisplays.  From August 2011, Dr. Xie carried out his postdoctoral research at TU  Dresden (Germany), sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,  investigating the stability of OLEDs. From January 2013 to January 2015,  Dr. Xie worked for an OLED-based interdisciplinary project to treat  skin cancer with OLEDs at the University of St Andrews (UK). From 2015 to 2022, he served as an associate professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (China). Since 2023, Dr. Xie joined Xiamen University (China) as a full professor, working on the interdisciplinary research of the emerging optoelectronic materials and  devices. Dr. Xie has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications  with an H-index of 51 and contributed to 1 book as the editor-in-chief. In 2020, Dr. Xie has been admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, he also serves as a member of Youth Editorial Board respectively for “Chinese Journal of Luminescence”, “SmartMat”, “InfoMat”, “InfoScience”, and “The Innovation”.

Prof. Samir Ladaci, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria.

(Member of the IEEE, Member IAENG)

Samir Ladaci received the State Engineer degree in Automatics from the Polytechnic School of Algiers in 1995 and the Magister degree in Industrial Automation from Annaba University, Algeria in 1999. He received his Ph.D. and HDR degree (Habilitation à diriger les Recherches) from the department of Electronics, Mentouri University of Constantine, Algeria in 2007 in collaboration with the Ecole Centrale de Nantes France, and 2009 respectively.
From 2001 to 2013, he was an assistant professor and then associate professor (Maitre de conférence 'A') in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Skikda University, Algeria. And from December 2013 to October 2021 ha was with the National Polytechnic School of Constantine, Algeria as a Full Professor in Automatics and Control Engineering since January 2015. Beginning from 1rst November 2021 he joins the Ecole Nationale Polytechnique at Algiers, Algeria where he is the Head of the research group '.Automation, Optimized Systems and Fractional Order Control' at the Laboratory of Advanced Multidisciplinary Industrial & Systems Engineering.
He authored more than 200 papers in indexed journals and international conference proceedings and coauthored a Book and many book chapters; he also supervised more than 11 (ended) PhD theses.
His current research interests include Fractional order Systems and Control, Fractional Adaptive Control, Robust Control, Fractional order chaotic systems, Identification...