Prof. Yajuan Xue

Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Biography: Ya-juan Xue is currently a Professor with the School of Communication Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Sichuan, China. She was awarded as the thirteenth batch outstanding expert with outstanding contributions of Sichuan Province, China since 2018. She has participated in several national research programs under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) in several national and regional research projects, especially the national young research projects funded by NSFC, the outstanding young academic leaders fund of Sichuan Province. In recent years, she has published more than 80 papers in high-level journals and important academic conferences at home and abroad. She is a life member of Chinese Geophysical Society, active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). She is a Review Editor of the journal 'Frontiers in Earth Science'. She is also the reviewer for the journals such as Surveys in Geophysics, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing letters, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Exploration Geophysics, Acta Geophysica, Interpretation, Journal of applied Geophysics, Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Measurement, IEEE Access, Measurement, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Complexity, Defence Technology.

 

 

Prof. Jixin Ma

University of Greenwich, UK

Biography: Dr Jixin Ma is a Full Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) and the Director of PhD/Postgraduate Research Programme in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at University of Greenwich, U.K. He has been the Director of the Centre for Computer and Computational Science and the Lead of Artificial Intelligence Research Group. Professor Ma is also a Visiting Professor of Beijing Normal University, Hainan University, Anhui University, Zhengzhou Light Industrial University and Macau City University. Professor Ma obtained his BSc and MSc of Mathematics in 1982 and 1988, respectively, and PhD of Computer Sciences in 1994. His main research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Information Systems, with special interests in Temporal Logic, Information Security, Machine Learning, Case-Based Reasoning and Pattern Recognition. Professor Ma has been a member British Computer Society, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, ACIS/IEEE, World Scientific and Engineering Society, and Special Group of Artificial Intelligence of BCS. He has also been the Editor of several international journals and international conference proceedings, Conference/Program Chair, and Invited Keynote Speakers of many international conferences. Professor Ma has published more than 200 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

 

 

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. Richard Chbeir

University of Pau and the Adour Region, France

Biography: Richard Chbeir is a professor of computer science at the University of Pau and the Adour Region in France, where he leads the computer science laboratory called LIUPPA. He is the director of the Semantics & Privacy in Digital Ecosystems Research group (SPiDER). He is currently working on information and knowledge extraction. Chbeir is the head of the OpenCEMS industrial chair and is the creator of the MEDES Conference. Dr. Richard Chbeir received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of INSA- FRANCE in 2001. He became a member of IEEE since 1999 and senior member of ACM. His research interests are in the areas of heterogeneous datab management, Data similarity and query rewriting, spatio-temporal applications. He has published (more than 200 peer-reviewed publications) in international journals and books (IEEE Transactions on SMC, Information Systems, Journal on Data Semantics, Journal of Systems Architecture, etc.), conferences (ER, WISE, SOFSEM, EDBT, ACM SAC, Visual, IEEE CIT, FLAIRS, PDCS, etc.), and has served on the program committees of several international conferences (ADBIS, WISE, CoopIS, ACM SAC, IEEE ISSPIT, EuroPar, SBBD, etc.). He has been organizing many international conferences and workshops. He is currently the Chair of the French Chapter ACM SIGAPP.