General Chair

Jingsha He
Professor, Department of Software Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China

Research Interests: Information security; Wireless networks; Blockchain technology; Digital forensics.

Jingsha He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China in July 1982 and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in U.S. in December 1984 and December 1990, respectively. Prof. He has been with the Faculty of Information Technology of Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in Beijing, China since August 2003, starting therein as a distinguished professor of the Beijing municipality during the first three years. Prior to joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He had worked for several multi-national companies in the U.S., including IBM Corp. (as a senior computer scientist), MCI Communications Corp. (as a senior engineer) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. (as a senior member of research staff), and published more than 10 papers and received 12 U.S. patents. Since joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He has published over 300 papers in scholarly journals and major international conferences, received 90 Chinese patents and 53 software copyrights and authored or co-authored 9 books in software engineering and information security. Prof. He has been the principal investigator of more than 40 research projects, including grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. Prof. He’s research interests include information security, wireless networks, blockchain technology and digital forensics.

Yu-Dong Zhang
Professor, IEEE/ACM/IES Senior Member, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Chair in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, University of Leicester, UK

Research Interests: Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks; Graph convolutional networks; Attention networks; Explainable AI; Biomedical image analysis; Bio-inspired computing; Pattern recognition; Transfer learning; Medical sensor.

Yudong Zhang received his BE degree in information sciences the MPhil degree in communication and information engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the PhD degree in signal and information processing from Southeast University, in 2010. He was a postdoc from 2010 to 2012 with Columbia University, and as an assistant research scientist from 2012 to 2013 with Research Foundation of Mental Hygiene. He was a full professor from 2013 to 2017 with Nanjing Normal University. He is currently a professor with the School of Informatics, University of Leicester, U.K. His research interests include deep learning and medical image analysis. He is a fellow of the IET (FIET), and senior member of the IEEE, IES, and ACM. He was included in the “Most Cited Chinese researchers (Computer Science)” by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was the recipient of the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2019, “Emerald Citation of Excellence 2017, and MDPI Top 10 Most Cited Papers 2015. He was included in Top Scientist in Guide2Research.

Co-Chair

Chien-Ming Chen
Associate Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Research Interests: Network security; Blockchain; Big data; Artificial intelligence; Data mining.

Chien-Ming Chen is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2010. He has published about 150 SCI-indexed research articles in refereed journals (including ACM/IMS TDS, IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TITS, IEEE TC, IEEE TMM, IEEE SysJ, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE Networks, ACM TMIS, ACM OSR), 3 edited books, and 17 patents.  He is the Associate Editor/Editor of various SCI journals, and Guest Editor for several SCI journals incuding IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCE, etc.  He is the Senior Member of IEEE.

Technical Program Committee Chair

Valentina Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

Technical Program Committee

Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Ahmed Mateen Buttar, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

Akram A. Almohammedi, Karabük University, Turkey

Aleksandra Mileva, Goce Delcev University, Republic of North Macedonia

Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Vietnam

Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Daehee Seo, Sangmyung University, South Korea

Danilo Avola, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Galina Ilieva, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Gajendra Sharma, Kathmandu University, Nepal

George K. Adam, University of Thessaly, Greece

Gianluca Lax, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Haider TH. Salim ALRikabi, Wasit University, Iraq

Jing Zhang, Emory University, USA

Khayyam Salehi, Shahrekord University, Iran

Laiphrakpam Dolendro Singh, NIT Silchar, India

Larbi Boubchir, University of Paris 8, France

Ljiljana Trajković, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Loc Nguyen, Amrita College of Engineering & Technology, Vietnam

M. A. Jabbar, Vardhaman College of Engineering, India

Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia

Muath Obaidat, City University of New York, USA

Muhammad Adil, University at Buffalo, USA

Neil Gordon, University of Hull, UK

Obradovic Zarema, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

P.M. SIVARAJA, Amrita College of Engineering & Technology, India

Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA

Sathishkumar V E, Sunway University, Malaysia

Seppo Sirkemaa, University of Turku, Finland

Seyed Mohammad Ayyoubzadeh, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Sohaib Latif, The University of Chenab, Pakistan

Songmei Yu, Felician University, USA

Sunday Adeola Ajagbe, Abiola Ajimobi Technical University, Nigeria

Vinayak Ashok Bharadi, Finolex Academy of Management and Technology, India

Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Xiangjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Yuchen Jiang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China