Organising Committee
Here are Organising Committee Members
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Dr. Danda B. Rawat is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Founder and Director of the Howard University Data Science and Cybersecurity Center, Director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab, Graduate Program Director of Howard CS Graduate Programs and Director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning, big data analytics, and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, multi-domain battle, smart cities, software-defined systems and vehicular networks. His professional career comprises more than 18 years in academia, government, and industry. He has secured over $16 million in research funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US National Security Agency (NSA), US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), DoD and DoD Research Labs, Industry (Microsoft, Intel, etc.) and private Foundations. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2016, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award in 2017,​Researcher Exemplar Award 2019 and Graduate Faculty Exemplar Award 2019 from Howard University, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship in 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards (IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICII, BWCA) and Outstanding PhD Researcher Award in 2009. He has delivered over 20 Keynotes and invited speeches at international conferences and workshops. Dr. Rawat has published over 200 scientific/technical articles and 10 books. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 50 international journals including the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Service Computing, Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Network Science and Engineering and Technical Editors of IEEE Network. He has been in Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM and so on. He served as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE GreenCom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC and IEEE VTC conferences. He served as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Savannah Section from 2013 to 2017. Dr. Rawat received the Ph.D. degree from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Rawat is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, a member of ASEE and AAAS, and a Fellow of ​​the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
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Aggelos Katsaggelos is Professor and Joseph Cummings Chair in the ECE Department at Northwestern University. He also runs the Image and Video Processing Laboratory (IVPL), whose objective is to generate cutting-edge research results in the fields of multimedia signal processing, multimedia communications, and computer vision. IVPL works in a variety of problems (e.g., recovery, compression, segmentation, and speech and speaker recognition) and applications areas (e.g., medical, multi-spectral, and astronomical image processing). Dr. Katsaggelos is a Fellow of the IEEE (1998) and SPIE (2009), the co-inventor of seventeen international patents, the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2001), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2010), and co-author of several award-winning papers.
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Mark Burgin received his MA and PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University and Doctor of Science (DSc) in logic and philosophy from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was a Visiting Professor at UCLA; Professor at the Institute of Education, Kiev, Ukraine; at International Solomon University, Kiev, Ukraine; at Kiev State University, Ukraine; the Head of the Assessment Laboratory of the Research Center of Science at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Psychology, Kiev. Currently he is affiliated with UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. Mark Burgin is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a Senior Member of IEEE, of the Society for Computer Modeling and Simulation International, and of the International Society for Computers and their Applications, as well as an Honorary Professor of the Aerospace Academy of Ukraine and Vice-President of the International Society for The Studies of Information. Mark Burgin was the Chair of the IEEE San Fernando Valley Computer and Communication Chapter and the Secretary of the International Society for Computers and their Applications. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Integration, international journal Information and the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence & Evolutionary Computation also being an Editor and Member of Editorial Boards of more than 21 journals. He was a member of Program, Organizational and Scientific Committees in more than 100 international conferences, congresses and symposia as well as the chief organizer of some of them such as Symposia “Theoretical Information Studiesâ€, “Evolutionary Computation and Processes of Lifeâ€, and “Creativity in Education.†Mark Burgin is doing research, has publications, and taught courses in various areas of mathematics, information sciences, artificial intelligence (AI), computer science, system theory, philosophy, logic, cognitive sciences, pedagogical sciences, and methodology of science.
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Dr Lo’ai Tawalbeh (IEEE SM) completed his PhD degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2004, and MSc in 2002 from the same university with GPA 4/4. Dr. Tawalbeh is currently an Associate professor at the department of Computing and Cyber Security at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Before that he was a visiting researcher at University of California-Santa Barbra. Since 2005 he taught/developed more than 25 courses in different disciplines of computer engineering and science with focus on cyber security for the undergraduate/graduate programs at: NewYork Institute of Technology (NYIT), DePaul’s University, and Jordan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Tawalbeh won many research grants and awards with over than 2 Million USD. He has over 80 research publications in refereed international Journals and conferences.
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Nicolas H. Younan is a Department Head Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University where he previously served as the Department Head and James Worth Bagley Chair from 2009 until 2019. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Mississippi State University, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio University in 1988. Dr. Younan’s research interests include signal processing and pattern recognition with applications to smart technologies. He has been involved in the development of advanced signal processing and pattern recognition algorithms for data mining, data fusion, feature extraction and classification, and automatic target recognition/identification. Dr. Younan has published over 300 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has served as the General Chair and Editor for the 4th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Co-Editor for the 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images, Guest Editor, Sensors Journal, Remote Sensing, Electronics, Pattern Recognition Letters, and JSTARS, and Co-Chair for the Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Remote sensing (2008-2010). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing society, serving on two technical committees: Image Analysis and Data Fusion, and Earth Science Informatics (previously Data Archive and Distribution). He also served as the Vice Chair of the International Association on Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee 7 on Remote Sensing (2008-2010).
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Dr. Ilya Safro received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2021, he joined the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. In 2012-2020, Dr. Safro held assistant and associate professor positions in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He was also a Faculty Scholar of the Clemson University School of Health Research. Before that he was a postdoc and Argonne scholar at the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Safro research is funded by NSF, DARPA, DOE, BMW, and Greenville Healthcare Systems. His research interests include algorithms and models for AI, machine learning, NLP, network science and graphs, quantum computing and large-scale optimization.
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Dr. Li Chen is currently a professor of computer science at the University of the District of Columbia. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in CS from Wuhan University (1982), Utah State University (1995), and the University of Bedfordshire (2001), respectively. Chen has worked in both academia and industry. He was a visiting associate professor at the University of Maryland, and adjunct professor at Virginia Tech. In industry, he worked for companies as a senior software engineer. Chen is an ACM distinguished speaker since 2015. Chen has published more than70 researcher papers in journals and conference proceedings including Discrete Mathematics; Theoretical Computer Science; Topology and its Applications; IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and Information Science. He also holds a United States patent. Chen has published a total of five books including “Mathematical problems in data science" (Springer, 2016), “Digital and discrete geometry†(Springer, 2014), “Digital functions and data reconstruction" (Springer, 2012). Chen also writes articles in CS and applied math education. Chen has given professional talks on various topics in many universities and colleges including the University of Toronto, University of Maryland, George Mason University, Rutgers University, NIH, and Georgetown University. He was a visitor of DIMACS (Rutgers-Princeton) and a Scientific Researcher in the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto.
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Zabih Ghassemlooy (Fellow, SOA; Fellow, IET; Senior Member, IEEE), CEng, BSc (Hons.) in EE Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., (1981), MSc (1984) and PhD (1987) from Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 joined Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and 2004-14 joined Faculty of Eng. & Env., Northumbria University, UK as an Associate Dean Research, and currently is the Head of Optical Communications Research Group. He is a Research Fellow (2016-) and a Distinguished Professor (2015-) at the Chinese Academy of Science. He was the Vice-Chair of EU Cost Action IC1101 (2011-16) and is Vice- Chair of the EU COST Action CA19111 NEWFOCUS (European Network on Future Generation Optical Wireless Communication Technologies, 2020-2024).He has published over 900 papers (more than 350 journals and 8 books), 100 keynote/invited talks, supervised 10 Research Fellows and 65 PhD students. His research interests are in the areas of optical wireless communications, free space optics, visible light communications, hybrid RF and optical wireless communications. He is the Chief Editor of the British Journal of Applied Science and Technology and the International Journal of Optics and Applications, Associate Editor of a number of international journals, and Co-guest Editor of a number of special issues OWC. He is the Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-). He is the Chair of the IEEE Student Branch at Northumbria University, Newcastle (2019-). From 2004-06 he was the IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, the Vice-Chairman (2006-2008), the Chairman (2008-2011), and Chairman of the IET Northumbria Network (Oct 2011-2015).
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Dr Cheng Siong Chin received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2000, the M.Sc. degree in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from The University of Manchester (formerly called UMIST) in 2001, and the PhD degree in Research Robotics Centre, NTU in 2009. He is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) with Newcastle University and Adjunct Full Professor to Chongqing University, School of Automotive Engineering. He has published over 100 publications, 4 authored books and 3 US Patents. His research interests include the design and simulation of complex systems for an uncertain environment. He is a Fellow of the Higher-Education Academy, Fellow of IMarEST, Senior Member of IEEE and the IET, and a Chartered Engineer. In 2018, he was invited as Plenary Speaker and Chief Guest for IEEE International Conference on Power, Energy control and Transmission Systems in India. He served as a Lead Guest Editor for the Journal of Advanced Transportation (Special Issue on Intelligent Autonomous Transport Systems Design and Simulation) and organizer for Special Session on Smart and Intelligent Controller Based Grid Integration of Renewable Energy System in IEEE TENCON 2019. He also involved as the general chair and the technical review committee member in various international conferences (ICRAI 2019 in NTU) related to intelligent systems. He was the Panel Member for Senior Member of IEEE Application in Region 10 in 2014 and 2017. He received the Best Paper Award for Virtual Reality of Autonomous Marine Vehicle in 10th International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control sponsored by IEEE in 2018 and the Best Application Paper on Dynamic Positioning for Vessel in 11th International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, 2019. He also received DCASE2019 Judges' Award (most innovative and original) for Sound Event Detection in Domestic Environments in IEEE AASP Challenge on DCASE2019 with his PhD student. He was awarded the Outstanding Contributions in Reviewing for Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier in 2018. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Access, IEEE Earthzine (marine power and battery systems) and Electronics (Sections: Systems & Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems), MDPI.
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Rafael Capurro born 1945 in Montevideo (Uruguay). Dr. phil. in Philosophy from Düsseldorf University. Postdoctoral teaching qualification in Ethics from Stuttgart University. Professor emeritus of Information Science and Information Ethics at Stuttgart Media University (1986-2009). Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Stuttgart University (1989-2004). Founder of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE). Former Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (2004-2018). Former member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) to the European Commission (2000-2010). Founder of the Capurro-Fiek-Foundation for Information Ethics. Research Associate in the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2017-to present). Member of the Executive Board of Responsible Robotics. Special ANIE (Africa Network for Information Ethics) Award for a decade of special contribution to Information Ethics (2014). INSEIT International Society for Ethics & IT / Joseph Weizenbaum Award in Information and Computer Ethics 2021.
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Bruno François is a Full Professor at Centrale Lille Institute and at the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Power electronics (L2EP) in Lille, France. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1996, in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include the advanced energy management of power systems, architectures and control systems of future electrical networks, smart grids and uncertainty impact in operation of electrical systems.
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Carlo Cattani is Professor (Habil. Full Professor, since 2017) of Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Enterprise (DEIM) of Tuscia University (VT)-Italy, since 2015. He has been previously appointed as professor/research fellow at the Dept. of Mathematics University of Rome La Sapienza (1980-2004) and Dept. of Mathematics, University of Salerno (2004-2015). Research fellow at the Italian Council of Research, CNR in 1978-1980 and Visiting Research Fellow at the Physics Institute of the Stockholm University (1987-1988). His main scientific research interests are focussing on numerical and computational methods, mathematical models and methods, time series and data analysis, computer methods, and simulations. Author of more than 270 scientific papers on international journals and co-author of several books he has given significant contributions to fundamental topics such as numerical methods, dynamical systems, fractional calculus, fractals, wavelets, nonlinear waves, data analysis. Editor in Chief of the journals “Fractal and Fractional†and “Information Sciences Lettersâ€, he is serving also as Editor in Several International Scientific Journals. He has been awarded Honorary professor at the Azerbaijan University (2019), at the BSP University, Ufa-Russia (2009) for “his contribution in research and international cooperationâ€, and (in 2018) as adjunct Professor at the Ton Duc Thang University – HCMC Vietnam. For the many achievements in research (H-index: Scopus (41), WoS (36), Google Scholar (47))he has been listed in the 2020 World Ranking of Scientists (Top 2%), ranking 85th (3d in Italy) for numerical and computational mathematics, and 16th over 335 Italian Mathematicians of this list.
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Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Born in Monza (Milan-ITALY), on 23 August 1969. June 1995. M.Sc. with Honours at the Politecnico di Milano in Civil (Structural) Engineering. Thesis: Elasto-plastic fracture mechanics: geometric parameters and their use in the study of pressurized pipelines. February 1999. Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. Thesis: Simulation of ductile fracture: material models, numerical aspects and parameter identification. December 1999- December 2001. Research Assistant at the Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. March 2002. Appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. February 2011. Appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Engineering (now Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Politecnico di Milano. AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS. Scholarship from Associazione Carlo Maddalena – Milano for young graduate students (1996). Scholarship from Fondazione Confalonieri – Milano for young Ph.D. students (2000). Young Researcher Funds for participation in the International Congresses: • Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM V), Vienna (Austria), 7-12 July 2002; • 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque (USA), 27-31 July 2003. • 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw (Poland), 6-10 September 2004.
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Domenico Talia is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Calabria, adjunct professor at Fuzhou University, and honorary professor at Amity University. He is a partner of the startup DtoK Lab. His research interests include big data analysis, parallel and distributed data mining, cloud computing, social data analysis, mobile computing, peer-to-peer systems, and parallel programming. Talia published ten books and more than 400 papers in archival journals such as CACM, Computer, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSE, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSMC-B, IEEE Micro, ACM Computing Surveys, FGCS, Parallel Computing, IEEE Internet Computing and international conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the Future Generation Computer Systems journal, ACM Computing Surveys, the International Journal on Web and Grid Services, the Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience journal, MultiAgent and Grid Systems: An International Journal, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems International journal. Talia has been a project reviewer for several international institutions such as the European Commission, Aeres in France, Austrian Science Fund, Croucher Foundation, and the Russian Federation Government. He served as a chair, organizer, or program committee member of several international conferences and gave many invited talks, tutorials and seminars in conferences and schools. Talia is a member of ACM and a senior member IEEE. A list of publication can be found here: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=domenicotalia
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Javier Gozalvez received an electronics engineering degree from the Engineering School ENSEIRB (Bordeaux, France), and a PhD in mobile communications from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. He is currently Full Professor and Director of the UWICORE laboratory at the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Spain, where he is Full Professor. He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, and an elected member to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (IEEE VTS). He was the 2016-2017 President of the IEEE VTS. He was an IEEE Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE VTS.
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Yu-Sheng Lu received the B.S. degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1995. From 1997 to 1998, he was at the Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories, ITRI, Taiwan. From 1998 to 2000, he was with the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR, Germany. From 2000 to 2008, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. In 2008, he moved to the Department of Mechatronic Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he is currently a professor.His research interests include control system design with applications to mechatronic systems.
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Dr. Farshad Badie has received his MSc degree (graded with honour) in Software IT (with specialisation in Information Systems) from the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He has also obtained his Ph.D. in Human-Centered Communication & Informatics (HCCI) from Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark in 2017. He is already collaborating with AAU’s research group 'Natural and Formal Languages’ as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. His research interests lie in the areas of (1) Formal/Philosophical Logic & Cognitive Processes, (2) Symbolic Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Representation, and (3) Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence & Multi-Agent Systems. Dr. Badie is editorial board member and reviewer for several high-ranked journals in the areas of computer science, theory of AI, cybernetics, and decision and learning sciences. He has been an organising and scientific/technical committee member for more than 120 conferences, congresses, and workshops in Europe, America, UK, Australia, Asia, and Africa.
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“Dr. Isidoros Perikos received the Diploma of Computer Engineer in 2008, the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. on Computer Science from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor (adjust) at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department. His main research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and knowledge extraction, human–computer interaction, natural language processing, and affective computing. He has published over 80 papers in international conferences, journals, and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the Artificial Intelligence in Education Society.â€