Keynote Speakers
Prof. Zhao Zhang
IEEE Senior Member
Hefei University of Technology, China
Biography:
Zhao Zhang, Ph.D., Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, Hefei University of Technology, Distinguished Member of CCF/Senior Member of IEEE.He received his Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2013 (Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Tommy W.S. Chow, IEEE Fellow).He has been working in the School of Computer Science, Soochow University from Oct. 2013 to Oct. 2018. During his Ph.D. study, he conducted visiting research at National University of Singapore (NUS) from February to May 2012 (Supervisor: ShuiCheng Yan, ACM/AAAI/IEEE/IAPR Fellow, Singapore Academy of Engineering), and at NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAAS) from September to December of the same year (Supervisor: Chenglin Liu, IEEE/IAPR Fellow, Director of NLPR).
Assoc. Prof. Dimitrios Alexios Karras
IEEE Senior Member
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Biography:
Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. From 1990 and up to 2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, after his election, he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, Digital Systems, Signal Processing, till 12/2018, as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (the latter since 2002 and up to 2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, Digital Systems and Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General as well as Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the EPOKA university, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana. He has published more than 70 research refereed journal papers in various areas of intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, Decision Making, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent and distributed systems, Decision Making Systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing and systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security. He has served as program committee member as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of intelligent Systems-Decision Making Systems, signal, image, communication and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as associate editor in various scientific journals, including CAAI, IET.
Prof. Lu Leng
Nanchang Hangkong University,China
Biography:
received his Ph.D degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, in 2012. He performed his postdoctoral research at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, P. R. China. He was a visiting scholar at West Virginia University, USA, and Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, he is a full professor, the dean of Institute of Computer Vision, and the office director of Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at Nanchang Hangkong University.Prof. Leng has published more than 100 international journal and conference papers, including about 70 SCI papers and three highly cited papers. He has been granted several scholarships and funding projects, including six projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He serves as a reviewer of more than 100 international journals and conferences. His research interests include computer vision, biometric template protection and biometric recognition. Prof. Leng is an outstanding representative of "Innovation Talent" of Jiangxi Enterprise in "Science and Technology China", received "Jiangxi Youth May Fourth Medal", "Jiangxi Hundred-Thousand-Ten-thousand Talent Project", "Jiangxi Voyage Project", etc.
