ICIME Keynote Speakers
Prof.Shyi-Ming Chen (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, IFSA
Fellow, AAIS Fellow, IETI Distinguished Fellow)
Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI),
Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Engineering (PAE),
Asia University, Taiwan
Biography: Shyi-Ming Chen is a Chair Professor in the Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung,
Taiwan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in June 1991. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IET
Fellow, an IFSA Fellow, an AAIS Fellow, an IETI Distinguished Fellow, a Member
of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), and a Fellow of the
Pakistan Academy of Engineering (PAE). He was a Chair Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He was the Dean of the
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Jinwen University of
Science and Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan. He was the Vice President of
the National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan. He was the
President of the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI). He
was the President of the Taiwanese Association for Consumer Electronics (TACE).
He has published more than 600 papers in referred journals, conference
proceedings and book chapters. His research interests include Fuzzy Systems,
Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Decision Making, Computational Intelligence,
Knowledge-Based Systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Big Data
Analysis, Genetic Algorithms, and Particle Swam Optimization Techniques.
He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, an Associate
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2019-2024), an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, an Associate
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, an Associate Editor of
Knowledge-Based Systems, an Associate Editor of Expert Systems with
Applications, an Associate Editor of Information Fusion, an Associate Editor of
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, an Associate Editor of
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, an
Associate Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2003-2024), an
Associate Editor of Journal of Information Science and Engineering, an Associate
Editor of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making (2016-2024), an Associate
Editor of Knowledge and Information Systems (2016-2025), an Editor of
International Journal of Intelligent Systems, an Editor of Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2022-2025), an Editor of Applied
Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, and an Associate Editor of
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications.
Prof. Zheng Yan (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow,
and AIIA Fellow)
Xidian University, China
Biography: Dr. Zheng Yan is currently a Huashan distinguished professor
at the Xidian University, China. She is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, and AIIA.
She received the B. Eng in electrical engineering and M. Eng in computer science
and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1994 and 1997. She received a
second M. Eng in information security from National University of Singapore in
2000. She earned the Licentiate of Science and the Doctor of Science in
Technology in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in
2005 and 2007. She joined the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in 2000, working
as a senior researcher until 2011. She worked as a visiting professor and a
Finnish Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for over seven years.
Her research interests are in cyber trust, security, privacy, and data
analytics. She has led 30+ projects, sponsored by EU, Academy of Finland, NSFC,
MOST, telecom industry, etc. At the helm of a research team with 60+ members,
she has supervised 160+ post-doctoral researchers and graduates. She has
authored 400+ publications, with 270+ first and corresponding authorships,
featured prominently in top-tier venues. Thirteen of them are top 0.1% or 1%
highly-cited ESI papers. She is the sole author of two books on trust
management, utilized in teaching for a decade. 150 patents (including 82
independent international inventions) invented by her have been adopted by
industry, a few of them have been incorporated into international standards and
widely used in practice with billions of users. She has delivered 30+ invited
keynote speeches and talks at international conferences and world-leading
companies. Her Google Scholar citation is over 16,000 with an H-index of 66,
Zheng served and is serving as an EiC/area/associate/guest editor for 60+
reputable journals, e.g., executive EiC of Information Sciences, associate
editor of ACM Computing Surveys, area editor of Information Fusion. She is a
steering committee member of several conferences, a general/program chair for
40+ international conferences. She is a founding steering committee co-chair of
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, which becomes a leading venue in
the field.
Dr. Yan is recognized as a Stanford World Top 2% Scientist since 2019 and an
Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher since 2020. She has earned many
accolades, including Distinguished Inventor of Nokia for significant technology
contributions, N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC
Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE TEMS Distinguished Leadership
Award, ELEC Impact Award for patent contributions to Finnish society, the Best
Journal Paper Award issued by IEEE ComSoc and several other Best Paper awards,
18 times other IEEE Distinguished/Outstanding Leadership/Service awards, three
EU awards, Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award of Chinese Society of
Electronic Education, Shaanxi Nature Science Prize, etc. Her students have been
rewarded more than 50 national or international awards. Her excellence has been
covered by the media on numerous occasions.