2024 Keynote Speaker
A. Prof. Tsung-Hui Chang
IEEE Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Brief Introduction:
Tsung-Hui Chang received
the
B.S. degree in
electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from the
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2008,
respectively. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department
of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan. In August 2015, Dr. Chang joined the School of
Science and Engineering (SSE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
(CUHKSZ), China, as an Assistant Professor, and since August 2018, as an Associate
Professor. Prior to being a faculty member, Dr. Chang held research positions with
NTHU, from 2008 to 2011, and the University of California, Davis, CA, USA, from 2011
to 2012. His research interests include signal processing and optimization problems
in data communications, machine learning and big data analysis.
Dr. Chang is an Elected Member of IEEE SPS Signal Processing for Communications and
Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) (2020/01-), the Founding Chair of IEEE SPS
Integrated Sensing and Communciation Technical Working Group (ISAC TWG) (2021/07-),
and IEEE SPS Regional Director-at-Large of Region 10 (2022/01-). He has served the
editorial board for major SP journals, including an Associate Editor
(2014/08-2018/12) and Senior Area Editor (2021/02-present) of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
SIGNAL PROCESSING, and an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND
INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS (2015/01-2018/12) and IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF
SIGNAL PROCESSING (2020/01-). Dr. Chang was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in the year
2023.
Prof. Witold Pedrycz
IEEE Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada
Brief Introduction:
Witold Pedrycz (IEEE
Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational
Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 2009 Dr. Pedrycz was elected a
foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada. Witold Pedrycz has been a member of numerous program
committees of IEEE conferences in the area of fuzzy sets and neurocomputing. In 2007
he received a prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering
Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft
Computing, a Killam Prize, and a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society. His main research directions involve Computational
Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing, knowledge discovery and data
mining, fuzzy control, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks,
relational computing, and Software Engineering. He has published numerous papers in
this area. He is also an author of 15 research monographs covering various aspects
of Computational Intelligence, data mining, and Software Engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is
intensively involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of
Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
(Wiley), and Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer). He currently serves on the
Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a member of a number of
editorial boards of other international journals.
Prof. Chin-Chen Chang
IEEE Fellow, Feng Chia University,China(Taiwan)
Brief Introduction:
Prof. Chang has worked on
many different topics in information security, cryptography, multimedia image
processing and published several hundreds of papers in international conferences and
journals and over 37 books. He was cited over 44,608 times and has an h-factor of 95
according to Google Scholar. Several well-known concepts and algorithms were adopted
in textbooks. He also worked with the National Science Council, Ministry of
Technology, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Economic
Affairs and other Government agencies on more than 100 projects and holds 31
patents, including one in US and sixteen in China. He served as Honorary Professor,
Consulting Professor, Distinguished Professor, Guest Professor at over 60 academic
institutions and received Distinguished Alumni Award's from his Alma Master's. He
also served as Editor or Chair of several international journals and conferences and
had given almost a thousand invited talks at institutions including Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, National
University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, The University of Hong
Kong, National Taiwan University and Peking University. Professor Chang has mentored
7 postdoctoral, 66 PhD students and 202 master students, most of whom hold academic
positions at major national or international universities. He has been the
Editor-in-Chief of Information Education, a magazine that aims at providing
educational materials for middle-school teachers in computer science. He is a leader
in the field of information security of Taiwan. He founded the Chinese Cryptography
and Information Security Association, accelerating information security the
application and development and consulting on the government policy. He is also the
recipient of several awards, including the Top Citation Award from Pattern
Recognition Letters, Outstanding Scholar Award from Journal of Systems and Software,
and Ten Outstanding Young Men Award of Taiwan. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in
1998, a Fellow of IET in 2000, a Fellow of CS in 2020, an AAIA Fellow in 2021, a
Member of the Academy of Europe (AE) in 2022, and a Member of the European Academy
of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in the same year for his contribution in the area of
information security.