ICIME Keynote Speakers
Prof. Xiaoli Li, Institute for Infocomm Research,
A*STAR, Singapore (IEEE Fellow and AAIA Fellow)
Xiaoli currently serves as the head of the Machine
Intellection Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR,
Singapore, leading the largest AI and data science group in the country,
comprising over 100 AI and data scientists. He is also a principal scientist and
holds an adjunct professor position at Nanyang Technological University, having
previously served in an adjunct role at the National University of Singapore for
six years. He is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial
Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Xiaoli has authored 360 publications, with research interests spanning data
mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. He is
highly regarded in the academic community, having held conference chairs/Area
Chairs/Senior PCs positions in the most prominent AI/data mining/machine
learning related conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, WWW,
ACL, EMNLP, and CIKM. In addition to editing eight books, he has published
numerous highly cited papers, accumulating over 30,000 citations and achieving
an h-index of 80. Recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists by
Standford university in the AI domain, his contributions continue to influence
and advance the field significantly.
Prof. Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (IEEE Fellow,
INNS Fellow and AAIA Fellow)
Professor Irwin King, a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests span machine learning, social computing, artificial intelligence, and data mining. Professor King’s extensive research has been recognized through numerous publications and awards in internationally renowned venues. He holds prestigious fellowships in the IEEE, INNS, AAIA, and HKIE, and is an ACM Distinguished Member. In addition to his research work, he has also been an evangelist, promoting E-Learning with AI technology. He serves as the Director of the ELearning Innovation and Technology (ELITE) Centre, the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing (MISC) Lab, and the Trustworthy Machine Intelligent Joint Lab. Professor King obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC).
Prof. Tomoaki Otsuki, Keio University, Japan (IEICE
fellow, AAIA fellow)
Tomoaki Otsuki (Ohtsuki) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan in 1990,
1992, and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995 he was a Post Doctoral Fellow
and a Visiting Researcher in Electrical Engineering at Keio University. From
1993 to 1995 he was a Special Researcher of Fellowships of the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists. From 1995 to 2005 he
was with Science University of Tokyo. In 2005 he joined Keio University. He is
now a Professor at Keio University. From 1998 to 1999 he was with the department
of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California,
Berkeley. He is engaged in research on wireless communications, optical
communications, signal processing, and information theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a
recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi
Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000, 2002
Funai Information and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st
Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication
Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Service Award, the
27th TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award,
9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014
(CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award, 2020 Yagami Award, The 26th Asia-Pacific
Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper Award, and International
Conference on Internet of Things, Communication and Intelligent Technology
(IoTCIT) 2024 Best Paper Award. He has published more than 276 journal papers
and 518 international conference papers.
He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for
Communications and Electronics Technical Committee. He served as a technical
editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor of Elsevier
Physical Communications. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials. He is also serving as the IEEE Communications Society,
Asia Pacific Board Director. He has served as general-co chair, symposium
co-chair, and TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM 2008,
SPC, IEEE ICC 2011, CTS, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, SPC, IEEE ICC 2020, SPC, IEEE
APWCS, IEEE SPAWC, and IEEE VTC. He gave tutorials and keynote speeches at many
international conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, and so on.
He was Vice President and President of the Communications Society of the IEICE,
also he was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE. He is a fellow of the IEICE, a
Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), a senior
member of the IEEE, and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.