Prof. Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow)
University of Alberta, Canada
Speech Title: Federated Unsupervised Learning with Development of Interpretable Information Granules (Read more)
Bio: Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow, 2021) 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. Gary G. Yen (Fellow of IEEE & IET)
Oklahoma State University, USA
Speech Title: to appear soon
Bio:
Gary G. Yen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering
from the University of Notre Dame in 1992. He is currently a Regents Professor
in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University.
His research interest includes intelligent control, computational intelligence,
evolutionary multiobjective optimization, conditional health monitoring, signal
processing and their industrial/defense applications.
Gary was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and
IEEE Control Systems Magazine during 1994-1999, and of the IEEE Transactions on
Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(Parts A and B) and IFAC Journal on Automatica and Mechatronics during
2000-2010. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE
Transactions on Emerging Topics on Computational Intelligence, and most recently
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. Gary served as Vice President for
the Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-2005
and was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Magazine, 2006-2009. He was elected to serve as the President of the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society in 2010-2011 and is elected as a
Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2012-2014, 2016-2018, and 2021-2023. He
received Regents Distinguished Research Award from OSU in 2009, 2011 Andrew P
Sage Best Transactions Paper award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Society, 2013 Meritorious Service award from IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society and 2014 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Excellence Teaching award. He is a
Fellow of IEEE and IET.
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya (Fellow of IEEE)
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS)
Laboratory
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Speech Title: to appear soon
Bio:
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of
the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of
Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its
innovations in Cloud Computing. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian
Research Council during 2012-2016. He has authored over 625 publications and
seven text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill,
China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international
markets respectively. He also edited several books including "Cloud Computing:
Principles and Paradigms" (Wiley Press, USA, Feb 2011). He is one of the highly
cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide
(h-index=118, g-index=255, 72,200+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index
ranked Dr. Buyya as #1 author in the world (2005-2016) for both field rating and
citations evaluations in the area of Distributed and Parallel Computing. "A
Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by German scientists
ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's
Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a
"2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" by Thomson Reuters, a Fellow of
IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative
Research Award by Elsevier for his outstanding contributions to Cloud computing.
Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's
leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic
institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr.
Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities,
including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on
Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and
international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award
of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" from the IEEE Computer
Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership
has received "2010 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award". Recently, Dr.
Buyya
received "Mahatma Gandhi Award" along with Gold Medals for his outstanding and
extraordinary achievements in Information Technology field and services rendered
to promote greater friendship and India-International cooperation. He served as
the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is
currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and
Experience, which was established over 45 years ago. For further information on
Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanne
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,
Switzerland
Title: Problem-Based Education in Information Systems with Focus on Computational Intelligence
Bio: Thomas Hanne received
master's degrees in Economics and Computer Science, and a PhD in
Economics. From 1999 to 2007 he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) as senior scientist. Since then he
is Professor for Information Systems at the University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and Head of the
Competence Center Systems Engineering since 2012.
Thomas Hanne is author of more than 160 journal articles, conference
papers, and other publications and editor of several journals and
special issues. His current research interests include computational
intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, metaheuristics, optimization,
simulation, multicriteria decision analysis, natural language
processing, systems engineering, software development, logistics,
and supply chain management.
Prof. Andrea Deaconescu
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
Title: to appear soon
Bio: Prof. Andrea Deaconescu is a full professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. She obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania in 2005 and an MA in Information Science at the University of Central England at Birmingham, UK. Her main fields of competence are Robust Design of Manufacturing Systems and Communication Management.She is the author of ten books and over 100 scientific papers.Prof. Andrea Deaconescu is a member of a series of professional and scientific associations and acted as visiting professor at Bremen University, Germany, ENSAM Cluny, France and the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.