Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker I


IEEE Fellow, Professor Wang Jun
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2002 to present.

  • Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995 to 2001.

  • Associate Professor,  University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA, 1993-1997.

  • Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1990-1993.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1999 to present.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Bybernetics, 2003 to present.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and reviews, 2001-2005.

  • Member of Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Neural Systems, 2006-2008.

  • Guest Co-editor, special issues in European Journal of Operational Research (vol. 93, no. 2, 1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (vol. 17, no. 6, 2007), and Neurocomputing (vol. 71, nos. 16-18., 2008).

  • Various positions at numerous international conferences such as ISNN2004, ISNN2005, IROS2005, ISNN2006, WCCI2006, ICONIP2006, and WCCI2008.

  • Past President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA).

 

Keynote Speaker II


IEEE Fellow, Prof. Derong Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Biography

Fellow of the IEEE (since January 2005). (2) CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. (3) University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois for 2006–2009. (4) A total of $1,324,233 research grants and funding from the National Science Founda-tion and industry since 1997. (5) A total of ten Ph.D. students graduated and a total of sixM.S. students graduated. (6) Elected AdCom member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for 2006–2008. (7) Associate Editor and Past Letters Editor of IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Associate Editor of two IEEE Magazines and the IFAC’s Automatica, Editor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society’s Electronic Letter, and past Associate Editor of two IEEE Transactions. (8) General Chair of two international conferences, and Program Chair of five IEEE international conferences. (9) Published four monographs and four edited books. (10) 61 refereed journal papers and 118 conference papers.

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Andrzej CICHOCKI
Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing
Brain Science Institute, RIKEN. Janpan

Biography

Andrzej CICHOCKI received the M.Sc. (with honors), Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. (Habilitation) degrees, all in electrical engineering. from Warsaw University of Technology (Poland).

Since 1972, he has been with the Institute of Theory of Electrical Engineering, Measurement  and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he obtain a title of a full Professor in 1995. He spent several years at University Erlangen-Nuerenberg (Germany), at the Chair of Applied and Theoretical Electrical Engineering directed by Professor Rolf Unbehauen, as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow and Guest Professor. In 1995-1997 he was a team leader of the laboratory for Artificial Brain Systems, at Frontier Research Program RIKEN (Japan), in the Brain Information Processing Group. He is currently the head of the laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, at RIKEN Brain Science Institute (JAPAN) in the Brain-Style Computing  Group directed by Professor Shun-ichi Amari.

He is co-author of more than 100 technical papers and three internationally recognized monographs (two of them translated to Chinese).

 

Keynote Speaker IV


Prof. Danilo P. Mandic
Communication and Signal Processing Research Group
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College, UK

Biography

Dr. Mandic received the Ph.D. degree in nonlinear adaptive signal processing in 1999 from Imperial College, London, London, U.K. He is now a Reader with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K. He has previously taught at the Universities of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, U.K., and Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina.

He has written over 150 publications on a variety of aspects of signal processing and a research monograph on recurrent neural networks. He has been a Guest Professor at the Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), and Frontier Researcher at the Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Mandic has been a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms. He has won awards for his papers and for the products coming from his collaboration with industry.