Prof. Robert Minasian
IEEE Life Fellow, OSA Fellow, Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW
The University of Sydney, Australia
Biography:Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. His research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, and he is internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 416 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He has 100 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Talks at international conferences. He has served on numerous technical and steering committees of international conferences. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal for Outstanding Investigator, awarded by the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.
Distinguished Prof. Guoqiang Mao, FIEEE, FIET, Xidian University, China
Dean, Xidian Research Institute of Smart Transportation
Vice-Dean, Xidian Guangzhou Institute of Technology
Vice-Director, The National Key Lab of Integrated Service Networks
Biography: I am a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. I am an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (since 2018), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2014-2020) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2010). I am a member of IEEE ComSoc Awards Committee (2018-2020). I received “Top Editor Award” and “Top 15 Editors Recognition Award” for outstanding contributions to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2011, 2014 and 2015 respectively. I received best paper award at IEEE WCNC 2018 and 2017 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Networks. I am a co-chair of IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society Technical Committee on Communication Networks. I was a guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Section on “Graph Theory and its Applications in Vehicular Networking” 2013. I was a track co-chair of IEEE CCNC 2017, APCC 2017, IEEE VTC Fall 2016 and the 23rd IEEE PIMRC, a symposium co-chair of CMC 2011&2012 and the 7th ChinaCom, a tutorial co-chair of SmartGridComm 2016, a publicity chair of ACM Sensys 2007 and IEEE WCNC 2010, and a workshop co-chair of IEEE GreenCom 2013. I was the chief editor of the first book on sensor network localization: “Localization Algorithms and Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks”, which features contributions from world-leading experts from Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, Canada, University of London, UK and Linköping University, Sweden. I was listed in the 25th Anniversary Edition of Marquis “Who's Who in the World” (2008) and in the 9th (2007) and 10th (2008) Anniversary Edition of Marquis “Who's Who in Science and Engineering” for “exceptional achievements in Science and Engineering”.
I was appointed into the Australian Research Council “Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)” Research Evaluation Committee for “Engineering and Environmental Sciences” in 2015. The committee comprises up to 15 members and ranks research quality of engineering and environmental sciences disciplines of Australian Universities. The ranking is conducted every three years. I was appointed into College of Reviewers of the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment SCIENCE FUNDING in 2017. I was appointed an overseas expert review of Chinese Academy of Science in 2016. I was regularly invited to review national competitive reserach grants of China, Hong Kong, China, Qatar, Portugal, New Zealand, Canada and Australia.
My areas of interest include sensing and communication for smart roads, intelligent transportation systems and vehicular networks, urban sensing for smart cities, next generation mobile communication systems, Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks and wireless localization techniques.
Prof. Huiyu Zhou
University of Leicester, UK
Biography: 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.
Prof. Dong Hwa Kim
Hanbat National University, South Korea
Biography: Dr. Dong Hwa Kim received Ph.D from Ajou University in Korea and also got Ph.D from Dept. of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, TIT (Tokyo Institute of Technology, K. Hirota Lab.), Tokyo, Japan. He has experience in many areas such as Visiting Professor, Mechanical, Optic, Engineering Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economic (March 20, 2012-2013), President, Korea Institute HuCARE (President of Hu-CARE (Human-Centered Advanced Technology Research/Education, 2009 – ), EU-FP NCP (ICT) in Korea (Nov. 2009-), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Nov., 1977-March, 1993), President, Daedeok Korea-India Forum (March 1, 2010 – ), Vice-president of the recognition board of the world congress of arts, sciences and communications, IBC (Sept. 1, 2007, UK), Co-editor, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, executive committees (June 2, 2007 -2009), Co-editor, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII, Fujii press, Japan (2006-), Director of National Science Foundation (2006-2008). He wrote many columns about science & technology strategy and policy in major newspaper in Korea. He also had ever have lecture and keynote speaker in over 100 University and conference or forum over the world. He was Book Author in Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms (Computational Intelligence 75), Springer, Germany, 2007, and published 200 papers in international Journal and awards 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, Top 100 Engineers 2008 (UK), International Einstein Award for Scientific achievement. He got also best innovation award from Hankook Illbo (Korea major daily newspaper) on 2009. He is now working at Hanbat National University (2009 – ).
Prof. Marek R. Ogiela
Lifetime Fellow SPIE, Fellow IET
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Biography: Marek R. Ogiela received the B.S. degree in mathematics and physics from the Department of Mathematics and Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, in 1992.,Dr. Ogiela was the recipient of the title of Doctor of Control Engineering and Robotics for his honors doctoral thesis at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, in 1996. He was also the recipient of the title of Doctor Habilitated in computer science in 2001 and the Professor title in technical sciences in 2005. He is a member of numerous world scientific associations, i.e., SPIE Senior Member, etc., and a member of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.