Keynote Speakers  主讲嘉宾

Prof. Chong-Yung Chi
IEEE Life Fellow, AAIA & AIIA Fellows
National Tsing Hua Univesity, Taiwan, China

Chong-Yung Chi (IEEE Life Fellow, AAIA & AIIA Fellows, NAAI Member) received a B.S. degree from Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1975, an M.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1977, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1983, all in electrical engineering.
He is a Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has published more than 240 technical papers (with citations more than 8200 by Google-Scholar), including more than 100 journal papers (mainly in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING), more than 140 peer-reviewed conference papers, 3 book chapters, and 2 books, including a textbook, Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Communications: From Fundamentals to Applications, CRC Press, 2017 (which has been popularly used in a series of invited intensive short courses at 10 top-ranking universities in Mainland China since 2010 before its publication). His research interests include signal processing for wireless communications, convex analysis and optimization for blind source separation, biomedical and hyperspectral image analysis, and currently focused on Intelligent Fusion of Convex Optimization and Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Chi received the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, entitled “Outage Constrained Robust Transmit Optimization for Multiuser MISO Downlinks: Tractable Approximations by Conic Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 21, Nov. 2014. He has been a Technical Program Committee member for many IEEE-sponsored and cosponsored workshops, symposiums, and conferences on signal processing and wireless communications, including Co-Organizer and General Co-Chairman of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC). He was an Associate Editor (AE) for four IEEE Journals, including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING for 9 years (5/2001-4/2006, 1/2012-12/2015), and he was a member of Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM-TC) (2005-2010), a member of Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC) (2011-2016), and a member of Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM-TC) (2013-2018), IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Prof. Badong Chen
Xi 'an Jiaotong University, China

Badong Chen is a professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi 'an Jiaotong University, and a Chang Jiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education. He has graduated from Tsinghua University with a doctoral degree in Computer science in 2008. The research fields include machine learning, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and robotics. More than 300 academic papers have been published in internationally renowned journals and conferences, and the papers have been cited more than 17,000 times. More than 30 national invention patents have been authorized and 6 academic monographs have been published. He has been selected for the list of the world's top 2% scientists and the Elsevier China Highly Cited Researchers List. He has won the First Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Association of Automation, the Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Association of Automation, etc. He has served as a council member of the Chinese Society for Cognitive Science and an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions TNNLS/TCDS/TCSVT. He has presided over the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the key supported projects of the Major Research Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the key projects of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the projects of the 973 Program, and the projects of the National Key Research and Development Program.