Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

IEEE Life Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor 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. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of  several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).  

His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, Granular Computing, and Machine Learning, among others.

Prof. Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

FCAE, FIEEE, FAAIA, MAE, ACM Distinguished Member

Prof. Song Guo is a Full Professor leading the Research Group of Networking and Mobile Computing at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also holds a Changjiang Chair Professorship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China. Prof. Guo is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE), and Member of Academia Europaea (MAE). He is the current Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society.

Prof. Guo is the founding director of the Edge Intelligence Lab at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PEIL). His research interests are mainly in edge AI, 6G, big data and machine learning, mobile computing, and distributed systems. Prof. Guo's research has been sponsored by RGC, NSFC, ITF, MOST, NRC, JSPS, MIC, JST, industry, etc. He published many papers in top venues with wide impact in these areas and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Web of Science). He is the recipient of the 2020 Best Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019 IEEE TCBD Best Conference Paper Award, 2018 IEEE TCGCC Best Magazine Paper Award, 2019 & 2017 IEEE Systems Journal Annual Best Paper Award, and other 8 Best Paper Awards from IEEE/ACM conferences. He also received the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities twice.

Prof. Guo served for IEEE Communications Society as a Distinguished Lecturer, Member of Board of Governors, Director of Membership Services, and Chair of Technical Committee of Space and Satellite Communications. He has also served for IEEE Computer Society on Fellow Evaluation Committee, Transactions Operations Committee, Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Editor-in-Chief Search Committee, etc. Prof. Guo has been named on editorial board of a number of prestigious international journals like IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, etc. He has also served as chair of organizing and technical committees of numerous international conferences. Prof. Guo is a frequently invited expert for various national and international grant reviews. He is currently on RGC engineering panel.

Prof. De-Shuang Huang, Eastern Institute of Technology, China

IEEE Fellow；IAPR Fellow；AAIA Fellow

De-Shuang Huang, PhD/Professor, PhD Advisor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. The Recipient of“Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences”in 2000, Chief Scientist (Host) for National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 New Generation AI Major Project, Management Expert for National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 - Brain Science and Brain like Research Major Project, Member of the 14th Expert Review Team of National Natural Science Foundation of China. Active Member of Academy of Science of New York, Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE Fellow), Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Member of China Award Committee of ACM SIGBIO. Program Committee Chair of the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Honolulu, USA), General Chair of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Killarney, Ireland), Founder & Chairman of International Conference on Intelligent Computing (successfully and consecutively organized for 19 years, EI & CCF C indexed conference), Director of Biomedical Data Mining and Computing Professional Committee of China Bioinformatics Society, Vice Director of Bioinformatics Professional Committee of China Computer Federation.

Prof. Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

SPIE Fellow, IEEE/Optica Senior Member

Prof. Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over 260 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >10,000 citations, six edited books, two book chapters, >60 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >50 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.